BRU ZANE

Cherubini's Les Abenc?rages, premiered in 1813, heralds the spectacle and extravagance of Romantic grand opera. From the Alhambra gardens to the battlefield, the action skillfully intertwines...

The dance permeated every layer of Romantic society. From popular dance halls to courtly salons, people showed their public face, enjoyed themselves and met one another in waltz time or to the...

Women composers had great difficulty in making their voices heard and gaining recognition during their lifetimes. Even today, they are all too rarely heard in the concert hall or the opera house...

Abundant though it is, C?sar Franck's vocal music (operas, sacred music, oratorios, m?lodies) does not occupy a prominent place in the current repertory. His instrumental compositions - headed by the...

The injustices of history are made to be redressed. Here a cast of international singers, under the dynamic direction of Gergely Madaras, devotes itself with conviction to the task of reviving one of...

To provide an initial account of 10 years of musical rediscovery, the Palazzetto Bru Zane is bringing out a boxed set of 10 albums showcasing extracts from some of the works that have been unearthed:...

Gounod contemplated a Faust opera as early as his residence in Rome in the 1840s. But almost twenty years were to elapse before one of the most famous works of French Romanticism was premiered at the...

After Polyeucte (1878), Gounod tackled the operatic genre for the last time in 1881 with what is probably his most ambitious work, Le Tribut de Zamora. The action takes place in ninth-century Spain -...

In the firmament of the French m?lodie repertory, stars named Chausson, Duparc, Debussy, Faur?, Poulenc shine resplendent. Somewhere below this galaxy, an endearing personality has succeeded in...

How about a trip back to the Annees Folles in the company of Sacha Guitry? With this musical comedy composed by Reynaldo Hahn, which was a triumph for Arletty, the Palazzetto Bru Zane reveals the...

'To have written that, you must be a poet', Massenet told Reynaldo Hahn when he read through the score of L'?le du r?ve. Composed when the young man was not yet eighteen years old, this...

La Fille de Madame Angot, an op?ra-comique in three acts, was premiered at the Th??tre des Fantaisies-Parisiennes in Brussels on 4 December 1872 before scoring a similar triumph in France on 21...