Occupied Budapest, 1944: Upon learning that her husband belonged to the resistance, Kata (Ildik? B?ns?gi) was given a cover identity and spirited to an apartment, where she was to pose as the wife of...
Jean-Joseph Cassan?a de Mondonville was greatly admired in his day. His opera Titon et l'Aurore was one of his most popular works, being held up as a triumph over the rival Italian style during the...
Gluck's influential Orph?e et Eurydice tells the story of Orph?e's descent into the Underworld to retrieve his wife Eurydice. His singing has the power to overcome the guardian Furies, but the path...
Juan Diego Fl?rez dazzled audiences and critics alike when he played the virtuoso role of Orph?e in La Scala's first ever staging of Gluck's opera in it's French version: "Juan Diego Fl?rez delivered...
?Having been granted unprecedented authority by Louis XIV, the Sun King, no one could stage operas in France without Jean-Baptiste Lully's permission. By 1686, however, Lully's authority was waning...