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Beethoven’s only opera belongs to the genre of rescue opera which was popular around the time of the French revolution and campaigned against tyranny and ...

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor broomstick maker and his wife. One day they are playing so boisterously that they neglect their ...

Rusalka Antonin Dvorák Director Richard Jones' reading of Dvo?ak's best-known opera is rugged and human: the water-nymph Rusalka who aspires to become human learns about ...

A great classic of French literature of the first 700, revised by Jules Massenet. Manon, a young girl destined to the convent, he discovered a ...

Mozart, Mozart still, still Mozart Mozart fortunately! Coming up this time: Idomeneo, re di Creta, a dramma per musica in three acts, founded January 29, ...

"As are the modern husbands, unfaithful to the system, for pride and capricious genius then all jealous "(The Marriage of Figaro - Act II). Lucid ...

La Traviata is a work so famous they do not need special presentations: three acts with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play ...

The Ballet of George Balanchine Jewels is presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and has been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® ...

Love and desire, passion, hate and spite in one of the most important and beautiful Verdi operas ever written. Based on Schiller's gripping drama, Luisa ...

Nabucco (1842), Giuseppe Verdi’s third opera, was an immediate success. Yet it very nearly did not originate: the premiere of his second – comic – ...

In this comic masterpiece, the doddering Don Pasquale has willed his fortune to his nephew, Ernesto, on the condition he approves of the young man's ...

An American naval officer and a young geisha fall in love. She gives up everything to be with him but only a short time later, ...

Mozart wrote this music theatre work in the year of his death in 1791. When a fixed Opera commissioned was given to the coronation of ...

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)Bühnenweihfestspiel in drei Akten nach einem Libretto von Richard WagnerUraufführung am 26. Juli 1882 bei den 2. Bayreuther Festspielen / In Deutsch, mit ...

Wozzeck is a simple soldier trying to survive in an unjust world. His captain exploits him, he is the subject of scientific experiments conducted by ...

The comparison of characters in an action tight and linear, which enhance elemental passions and exacerbates the emotional, historical background of a legitimate key readings ...

A tale of public feuds and private griefs, set against a backdrop of civil war, Simon Boccanegra is revered as one of Verdi's most sublime, ...

“A ship with scarlet sails and black mast, and on the bridge a ghostly figure, the ship’s captain.” Thus is the Flying Dutchman described in ...