Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

With his last opera Mozart created a piece of theatre which defies categorization. In theory it is a Singspiel, a mixture of songs and dialogue, in...

These Opera Guides are ideal com-panions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera...

“It was a treat so truly intellectual that every ear and every breast, susceptible of harmony and of impression, was gratified to a degree beyond o...

John Wells introduces the opera with a high-spirited account of the action-packed career of the author, in many respects the prototype of Figaro hi...

Mozart wrote Idomeneo when he was twenty-four years old, and the opera was described by Albert Einstein as ‘one of those works that even a genius l...