Music: Styles & Genres

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (17821871), once one of the most well-known and well-loved names in French 19th-century opera, came later in life than...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was long considered one of the most typically French as well as one of the most successful of the opera co...

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (17821871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled ...

Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber (1782-1871), the most amiable French composer of the 19th century, came to his abilities late in life. After a stalled...

A guide to the origins and music of Szymanowski's exquisitely beautiful opera King Roger. Karol Szymanowski (1881-1937), the most important Polish...

The audience should feel as they come out of this show that they have over-eaten an enormous cream meringue. Jonathan Miller's ambition was complet...

The pathbreaking revival in Paris ca. 1900 of long-neglected operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau -- and what this meant to French audiences, critic...

The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's master...

A fresh, elegant and vital enquiry into the elusive character of opera, unfolded through categories and case-studies, with an emphasis on historica...

La Traviata was Giuseppe Verdis eighteenth opera and shows him at the height of his middle-period powers. Adapted from La Dame aux Camelias by Alex...

From its origins in the 1670s through the French Revolution, serious opera in France was associated with the power of the absolute monarchy, and it...

Inspired by the fast-moving scenes and vulnerable, complex characters of Elizabethan drama, this new opera by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp cons...

With four famous operas each from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and two each from Rossini and Donizetti, there is a feast of information. Here are sho...

The pathbreaking revival in Paris ca. 1900 of long-neglected operas by Mozart, Gluck, and Rameau -- and what this meant to French audiences, critic...

In this Guide to Pelleas and Melisande, Maeterlinck's original play is reprinted in full, so that the opera lover can read the scenes that Debussy ...