Orchestra sinfonica con canto

LA BOHÈME, una delle opere più amate e di maggior successo commerciale, è basata sul romanzo del 1851 Scene di vita boema di Henri Murger. Su libretto di Luigi Illica e Giuseppe Giacosa, Giacomo Pucci...

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia) was written by Giocchino Rossini (1792-1868) in 1816. The two-act comic opera is considered one of the greatest opera buffas ever written, and it remain...

Avendo già vinto il Prix de Rome per la composizione, George Bizet (1838-1875) ebbe l'opportunità di scrivere su commissione l'opera LES PECHEURS DE PERLES (I pescatori di perle). Con un libretto scri...

Avendo già vinto il Prix de Rome per la composizione, George Bizet (1838-1875) ebbe l'opportunità di scrivere su commissione l'opera LES PECHEURS DE PERLES (I pescatori di perle). Con un libretto scri...

Because he had formerly won the Prix de Rome prize in composition, George Bizet (1838-1875) had the opportunity to write his opera Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) on commission. With a libr...

Because he had formerly won the Prix de Rome prize in composition, George Bizet (1838-1875) had the opportunity to write his opera Les pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers) on commission. With a libr...

Based on the 1832 play LE ROI S'AMUSE by Victor Hugo, Guiseppe Verdi's (1812-1901) RIGOLETTO was the composer's sixteenth entry into the genre and is widely considered one of the first operatic master...

Based on the 1832 play LE ROI S'AMUSE by Victor Hugo, Guiseppe Verdi's (1812-1901) RIGOLETTO was the composer's sixteenth entry into the genre and is widely considered one of the first operatic master...

The creation of the opera Il Trovatore by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was complicated by a variety of circumstances. The original play by Garcia Gutierrez needed simplifying, and the traditional notion...

The creation of the opera Il Trovatore by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was complicated by a variety of circumstances. The original play by Garcia Gutierrez needed simplifying, and the traditional notion...

Based on Norse heroic legends, the sprawling operatic drama DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN took Richard Wagner (1813-1883) over twenty-five years to complete. Through a vast web of leitmotifs, melodic fragme...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) began composing the songs of DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN (THE BOY'S MAGIC HORN) in 1892, finishing in 1901. Comprised of 15 songs total by the end, each sets folktale texts, as pub...

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) began composing the songs of DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN (THE BOY'S MAGIC HORN) in 1892, finishing in 1901. Comprised of 15 songs total by the end, each sets folktale texts, as pub...

Gianni Schicchi is a one-act comic opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). The final and most popular opera in a trio known as Il trittico (The Triptych), each one dealing with the concealment of a deat...

Gianni Schicchi is a one-act comic opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). The final and most popular opera in a trio known as Il trittico (The Triptych), each one dealing with the concealment of a deat...

Fresh from the loss of his oldest daughter Maria Mahler, and knowing he had a serious heart condition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) crafted Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in the years 1908...

Fresh from the loss of his oldest daughter Maria Mahler, and knowing he had a serious heart condition, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) crafted Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) in the years 1908...

SILETE VENTI, HWV 242 (STATE ZITTI, VENTI) è un mottetto latino di George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) L'incertezza sulla data di composizione ha suscitato molti dibattiti, anche se un attento studio d...

Written sometime between 1795-1800, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Primo amore piacer del ciel for soprano and ensemble is a setting of a work that may have been penned by Italian poet and librett...

Written sometime between 1795-1800, Ludwig van Beethoven's (1770-1827) Primo amore piacer del ciel for soprano and ensemble is a setting of a work that may have been penned by Italian poet and librett...

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) iniziò a lavorare al suo POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEMA DELL'AMORE E DEL MARE), OP. 19, nel 1882. Il compositore scelse come materiale di partenza due poesie scritte...

Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) iniziò a lavorare al suo POÈME DE L'AMOUR ET DE LA MER (POEMA DELL'AMORE E DEL MARE), OP. 19, nel 1882. Il compositore scelse come materiale di partenza due poesie scritte...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his 3 Gesänge älterer deutscher Dichter (3 Songs by Older German Poets) in 1899 for high voice and piano. The three songs are: 1. An sie (To Them; text by Friedrich G...

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) wrote his 3 Gesänge älterer deutscher Dichter (3 Songs by Older German Poets) in 1899 for high voice and piano. The three songs are: 1. An sie (To Them; text by Friedrich G...