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Egon Wellesz’s Weimar era critique of the cruelty of nations that are victorious in war still rings hauntingly true.
Read MoreCD recordings keep bringing us unexpected treasures, including chamber works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Samuel Adler, and the (by turns) exquisite and powerful opera Armida by Mozart’s contemporary — who was not his murderer — Antonio Salieri.
Read MoreOdyssey Opera, and major singers from Ukraine and Russia, bring the great Russian composers’s three one-act operas to Jordan Hall on Sunday, September 25.
Read MoreThe Boston Early Music Festival returns in person — and in a world-premiere recording of a German Baroque opera.
Read MoreHere’s my list of two dozen superlative operatic offerings of wildly differing kinds, plus some notable non-operatic offerings.
Read MorePhilip Glass’s librettist Arthur Yorinks offers his thoughts on whether and how to update an opera as the Boston Lyric Opera releases its revamped and filmed version of The Fall of the House of Usher.
Read MoreI felt at times that I was listening to the Italian equivalent of a Broadway musical, though a serious rather than jolly one.
Read MoreA delightful recording — and the first ever! — of arias from Hasse’s and Gluck’s operas about Tigranes and Cleopatra of Pontus. Plus four arias by Vivaldi for that same Cleopatra.
Read MoreThe young baritone Will Liverman’s performances are full of spirit and a wide range of moods.
Read MoreOpera Review: Paisiello’s “Le gare generose” — Italians, Quakers, and Slavery in 18th-century Boston
The lively world-premiere recording of Giovanni Paisiello’s Le gare generose proves why the composer was in demand all across Europe.
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