Through the eye of French director Laurent Pelly this expression of Berlioz's undying admiration for the Bard - his adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing as an opera comique - becomes 'an elegant...
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...