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Die Zauberflöte isn"t a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Verdi composed "Un Ballo in Maschera" for the San Carlo Theatre in Naples where it was to have been staged during the 1858 carnival season. The libretto told the true story of the liberal King Gustavu...

Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar (1862 - 1941) parodied the conventions of Romantic opera in his own operas and secular cantatas, his music itself is staunchly Romantic in voice, little troubled by even...

1812 Ouverture Solenelle" was written by Tschaikowsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the "Battle of Borodino" in 1812. The overture debu...

Il Pirata (The Pirate) was Bellini's third opera. "Il Pirata" is an opera in two acts to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani from a French translation of the tragic play "Bertram", or "The Castle of...

After completing and premiering his powerful and controversial 13th Symphony, Babi Yar, in 1962, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) spent the next year in a state of physical and creative recuperation. T...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

As a contribution to the opera "Armer Columbus" by German composer Erwin Dressel, Shostakovich composed two of his quirkiest and oddest early orchestral pieces. An energetic "Entr"acte" in c minor (Al...

French composer Adolphe Adam composed his opera "Si j'étais roi" (if I Were King) in 1852. Though less popular than "Le postillon de Lonjumeau", it is often regarded as Adam's finest work. The well-de...

Verdi composed "Un Ballo in Maschera" for the San Carlo Theatre in Naples where it was to have been staged during the 1858 carnival season. The libretto told the true story of the liberal King Gustavu...

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of t...

Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (1851-1909) was a Spanish composer who wrote a large number of symphonic, band, choral and chamber works, as well as zarzuelas and operas and is considered one of the most popu...

Since its premiere in 1892, "Werther" has ranked among Jules Massenet's most admired and beloved scores; it has also proved the most enduring. He was inspired to compose the opera about the doomed poe...

George Gershwin composed his "Cuban Overture" in July and August 1932. Originally was the work titled "Rumba" and was the result of a two-week holiday which Gershwin took in Havana, Cuba in February 1...

The romantic, picturesque and dramatic appeal of medieval Christianity furnished Richard Wagner, after "Tannhäuser", with "Lohengrin". It's a romantic opera in three acts first performed in 1850 un We...

Many see Wagner's Tristan und Isolde as the beginning of the move away from common practice harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the 20...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) di Rossini è una delle più grandi opere comiche. Basato su un'eccellente commedia di Beaumarchais, il "Barbiere di Siviglia" delizia il pubblico con i suoi personaggi ac...

La forza del destino è un'opera italiana di Giuseppe Verdi. Il libretto è stato scritto da Francesco Maria Piave sulla base di un dramma spagnolo, "Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino", di Ángel de Saaved...

La forza del destino è un'opera italiana di Giuseppe Verdi. Il libretto è stato scritto da Francesco Maria Piave sulla base di un dramma spagnolo, "Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino", di Ángel de Saaved...

The Wasps is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was based on Aristophane's ancient Greek comedy The Wasps for a production at Trinity College, Cambrid...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which "Die Fledermaus" his best contribution to this genre is. This transcription follows the short but jolly introduction of the fi...

La Gazza Ladra di Rossini è un melodramma o "opera semiseria" in due atti su libretto di Giovanni Gherardini basato su "La pie voleuse" di Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d'Aubigny e Louis-Charles Caigniez...

La Gazza Ladra di Rossini è un melodramma o "opera semiseria" in due atti su libretto di Giovanni Gherardini basato su "La pie voleuse" di Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d'Aubigny e Louis-Charles Caigniez...

Il Nabucco fu la prima opera di Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) a diventare un vero successo. Si ritiene che l'opera abbia stabilito definitivamente la reputazione di Verdi come compositore: "Questa è l'op...