One of Mozart’s later works, La Clemenza di Tito, was essentially commissioned as a propaganda piece to commemorate […]
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An opera about a brother and sister written by another brother and sister. Not to be confused with […]
How to decode a Philip Glass opera? Perhaps the key is in not trying to, and simply immersing […]
Based on a play by Friedrich Schiller, Verdi’s longest opera, Don Carlo, originally consisted of 5 acts and […]
Ah, the efficacy of a fist-brandishing curse! Imagine if vengeance could be yours just through the advocacy of […]
Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera has always been hip to its audience. An acione teatrale, Orpheus & Euripides is […]
When it first premiered at the King’s Theatre in London, on April 4, 1739, Israel in Egypt was […]
Leonard Bernstein’s Candide opened on Broadway in 1956 and landed with a thud. Many think this might be […]
The reception to Plácido Domingo as he set out to conduct the opera was rousing, but it was […]
There are many erudite ways to determine whether an opera is good, but the most obvious may be how […]
