Chamber Music & Recitals

Tannh?user or Il Trovatore' Rienzi or Aida' Fish or fowl' The decision between Wagner and Verdi devides opera lovers into cultural enemies. Verdi, Giuseppe; the Southern European, is famous for his anthropocentric work - lovely, melodic, tragic and...

The Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg is one of the most prestigious opera and ballet venues in the world. Built in 1860 and named in honour of Maria Alexandrovna of Hesse-Darmstadt, wife of Czar Alexander II, it is home to the famous Mariinsky Ballet...

Many Old Music lovers will greet this DVD video with a relieved sigh of Thank goodness - at last!" The ensemble Il Giardino Armonico, founded in 1985 by Giovanni Antonini and Luca Pianca, here offers nothing less than a representative repertoire: mostly

The Vienna version of Alceste was Gluck's second reform opera after Orfeo ed Euridice. The libretto and music revolve around a self-sacrificing main character, and it is quite probable that the courageous bearing of Empress Maria Theresia while mourning h

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

Directed by Gustav Rudolf Sellner. Starring Martha M?dl, Gerd Feldhoff, Ernst Haefliger.

The new production of Purcell's The Fairy Queen launched in 1995 by the English National Opera (ENO) was received with great enthusiasm by both the public and musical press. Under the musical direction of Nicholas Kok, the English National Orchestra...

New York, 1930, in the sold-out Carnegie Hall: Mary Wigman, alone and barefoot, leaves the stage as high-priestess of dance". To this day, Americans celebrate her as the New German Dance's" pioneer. The life of one of the most exciting 20th century arti

Heinrich Sch?tz was presumably the first internationally renowned German composer. In the 40 years he spent as court "kapellmeister" in Dresden, he left a strong impression on musical life in Europe. Although he was named "father of our modern, meaning Ge

This intimate portrait follows Kylian as he travels to Prague for the first time since the change of government and to rehearsals in Stuttgart, where he began his career as a dancer with John Cranko and choreographed his first ballet. There is also film...

For the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fr?d?ric Chopin, the renowned Ruhr Piano Festival in Essen invited the Staatskapelle Berlin to give a truly special program: the rare combination of Chopin's two piano concertos in one concert. For this purpose Da

When this production of Handel's Ariodante - directed by David Alden and conducted by Ivor Bolton - had it's premiere, it met with unanimous critical and popular acclaim. Alden, as a theatrical modernist, transformed the opera seria into an...