Chamber Music & Recitals

The composition of Un ballo in maschera caused Verdi many problems. What began as an opera called Gustavo III was subject to censorship by the Neapolitan and Roman authorities, so it's libretto, location and title all changed. The subject, however, is...

Andr? Rieu/Johann Strauss Orchestra -"What A Wonderful World - Music For A Better World" Andr? Rieu commemorates a remarkable 30 years since the founding of his beloved Johann Strauss Orchestra. The Magic of Maastricht - 30 Years of the Johann Strauss...

To open the Met's 2017-18 season, powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky tackled one of opera's most fearsome roles, the title druid priestess of Bellini's Norma, who wrestles with love and betrayal before making the ultimate sacrifice on a funeral pyre...

Romeo & Juliet Blu-Ray

Salzburger Festspiele 2016 - Charles Gounod: Faust Blu-Ray

Friedrich Gulda belongs to the irrational sort, whose threatening extinction is a great loss to the world" (Manfred Gr?ter, WDR). After years of virtual abstinence from the classical music business - Gulda cursed at it's protagonists being schei?reaktion

DEAD DREAMS OF MONOCHROME MEN 1989Directed by David Hinton Devised and created collaboratively under the direction of Lloyd Newson Performed by Lloyd Newson, Nigel Charnock, Russell Maliphant and Douglas Wright Music by Sally Herbert... painful, origin

Conducting the brilliantly disposed Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons transforms the Golden Hall of Vienna's Musikverein into a heavenly anteroom. From the very fi rst, hushed measures, the orchestra "once again impressively...

John Gay (1685-1732), a genial poet and playwright with a talent for satire, got the idea for The Beggar's Opera from his friend, the satirist Jonathan Swift, who had mentioned to him that A Newgate pastoral might make a pretty sort of thing". It was sta

These two pinnacles of Italian opera, Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana have it all - love, infidelity, betrayal, jealousy and murder. Both are classic examples of verismo operas that dramatise the lives of ordinary people: Pagliacci fuelled by the...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was a child prodigy whose early genius was recognized and admired by the likes of Gustav Mahler and Giacomo Puccini. His musical style, deeply affected by music for the theatre, possessed great lyrical breadth; he managed to...

Sergey Prokofiev's operatic tragedy The Fiery Angel was never performed in the composer's lifetime - the music's brittle energy, drama and eloquent lyrical tenderness would re-emerge in his Third Symphony. The narrative focuses relentlessly on Renata,...