In Wordsworth’s great ode Intimations of Immortality there is an imaginative reference to “the clouds that gather round the ...

Like a hallucinogenic sugar cube, this Medici Arts DVD of Hans Werner Henze’s *Der junge Lord*, with libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann, will take viewers on a wild ride and really put it to the system.

of ‘the Yellow Label’ have been central to the recording of Wagner’s ...

The label’s name and legendary yellow logo synonymous for many music lovers ...

Today Bluebeard is considered one of BartÛk’s finest scores, fraught with Gothic darkness and abundant in orchestral riches and impressions. It is essentially a ‘static’ work and thus works well in ...

much of it fruitful, some of it perhaps less so, between Brecht and Weill, came ...

The maestro himself took his distance from this work, even though the opera had clocked more performances during his lifetime than all his other operaís (sorry Gesamtkunstwerken). But this was not at ...

particular feeling that opera can engender in listeners.

As I wrote in my review of the production, ‘her terrible bereavement, at first quietly accepted, resurges with terrifying force when … she recognises the tiny red cap that she knitted for him. Never ...

‘beauty’, veered close to the merely boring.

Shostakovich’s ‘Babi Yar’ Symphony, his thirteenth, is amongst his greatest works – and yet in a sense it disappeared completely after its troubled premiere on December 18 th, 1962. The composer ...

Staged in conjunction with Joffrey Ballet Chicago, the production features both dance and singing. Since Oropesa sings with silver tones and moves as gracefully as a dancer, she is a natural for the ...