Coro e Canto

A South African Veldt Song for Male Voices.

Three songs for Voice and Piano on texts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by American composer Thomas Pasatieri.

Wagner completed the first version of the opera in 1845 during his tenure as Kapellmeister at the royal court of Dresden, but he continued to redraft and revise it for the rest of his life. The settin...

The story of the Dutch sea-captain, cursed to wander the earth unendingly, featured three themes that were of enduring interest to Wagner: the Wanderer on his Quest, Redemption through Self-sacrifice,...

The story of the Dutch sea-captain, cursed to wander the earth unendingly, featured three themes that were of enduring interest to Wagner: the Wanderer on his Quest, Redemption through Self-sacrifice,...

Ten years after Weber composed the highly successful 'Abu Hassan', he found a libretto he felt he could use effectively. He had always been attracted to the common Central European tale of the 'free-s...

Based on the legend of Tristan and Isolda, Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' has long been acknowledged as the beginning of musical modernism. It is said that the entire opera is an attempt to resolve the...

Based on the legend of Tristan and Isolda, Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' has long been acknowledged as the beginning of musical modernism. It is said that the entire opera is an attempt to resolve the...

The final episode of the Ring cycle, 'Gotterdammerung' is itself a colossal work - one of the longest evenings of opera in the standard repertory. Musically, Wagner has gained such mastery of his musi...

German/English. Translated by Jameson.

Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' (The Ring of the Nibelung). Wagner wrote the libretto and music for this cycle of four epicoperas o...

An opera in three acts by Richard Wagner (1812-1883). The Mastersingers Of Nuremberg. Complete vocal score in a facilitated arrangement by Karl Klindworth. English translated by Frederick Jameson.

Alec Wilder was one of those unusual composers who managed to bridge the gap between the worlds of 'serious' and 'popular' music without losing credibility in either. Set specifically for school and l...

Mozart's little-known one-act comic opera 'The Impresario' was commissioned by the Emperor Joseph II of Austria for a winter party he was giving. The libretto by Johann Gottleib Stephanie (The Younger...

Lohengrin stands as a pivotal work in the career of Richard Wagner. In terms of its structure and approach, it is usually grouped at the end of his early operas; at the same time, it demonstrates many...

The vocal score to Gian Carlo Menotti's Help, Help, The Globolinks!.

Parsifal' is the story of a young man whose virtue and compassion become the salvation of the Knights of the Holy Grail. He wards off temptation and danger to regain the spear with which Christ's side...

Chip And His Dog is a wonderful Opera, written especially for Children, and to be performed by Children. It was commissioned by the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus, and the first performance was give...

This is billed as 'an opera for children of all ages'. It is best suited to being performed by adults or teenagers to younger children, as the vocal parts are quite challenging yet the story, taken fr...

The libretto for this work, by playwright Henri Meilhac and journalist Philippe Gille, is based on L'histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. Retaining the novel's eightee...

Libretto to Richard Strauss's 'Salome', based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's play of the same name. When 'Salome' premiered at Dresden in 1905, it was at once condemned by co...

Menotti's 'The Medium' is something of a cautionary tale, which had its genesis in a séance attended by the composer himself. The plot of the libretto (by Menotti himself) runs as follows: Living in c...

This opera was written when Bellini had established a name for himself with Norma and La Sonnambula and had just moved to Paris. The libretto is by Count Carlo Pepoli after the play Roundheads and Cav...

La Favorita, written in France by the Italian composer Donizetti is a tragedy, built around the ill-fated love affair between the king's mistress, Léonor, and a young novice monk, Fernand, who, not kn...

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