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Claudio Desderi, Mario Cassi, Grancisco Gatell, and Laura Giordano star in this 2006 Ravenna Festival production of the Donizetti opera with Riccardo Muti conducting the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini.

A mysteroius childlike woman, a murder by jealousy, an orphan: Debussy's Pell?as et M?llisande, his only completed opera, is full of magical, cryptical and deeply symbolic moments. With this work Debussy added quite literally a new dimension to the 1893 s

With it's majestic themes soaring upwards like gothic pillars and it's brilliant chorales and fanfares glowing like stained - glass windows, Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 is the most monumental of his orchestral works, a cathedral in sound that grows...

The film Strauss, Richard and his Heroines" explores Strauss' relationship to women. The primary focus lies on his attachment to Pauline, his wife of more than 55 years. Strauss experienced the most varied of epochs in German history, from the Empire to N

What a pleasure to listen to Demetrio e Polibio", wrote major Italian daily La Stampa" after the premiere of Rossini's very first opera at the 2010 Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, attributing it an undeniable fascination. The work was given it's firs

Underestimated by his contemporaries, but today acclaimed as one of the greatest and imaginative composers of his time. Anton Bruckner was a genius of tones. This will be the first in-depth documentary about the composer which explodes many of the myths...

Pergolesi's first opera La Salustia" is filled with emotions and dramatic elements. It portrays the battle of two women, their struggle for power and justice. Further, it is the story of failing deceitful plots and mistrust. Salustia is the strong empres

The first fully-staged productions of the LA Opera House groundbreaking Recovered Voices project, highlighting the works of composers affected by the Holocaust. A double bill of one-act operas: Viktor Ullmann's Der zerbrochene Krug, taken from a comedy by

Ji'i Kyli?n's ballet, set to Stravinsky, Igor's Symphony of Psalms, captures the archaic power of the music. The restrained gestures of a group of dancers contrast with the forceful and passionate movements of individuals and pairs who are set apart from...

Barcelona's Grand Teatre del Liceu presents Gy?rgy Ligeti's sole opera Le grand macabre" in a stunningly imaginative and highly theatrical production by La Fura dels Baus - a production that already claimed enormous success in Brussels, London and Rome a

Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini's wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini's fi rst collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini's librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perfectl

Kaguyahime is one of Japan's oldest fairytales. The story of the mysterious Moon Princess inspired Jir? Kyli?n to create a full-length ballet and to commission a score from the Japanese composer Maki Ishii. Through it's use of western percussion...