Orchestra sinfonica con coro

Premiering on May 22, 1813, at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice, L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) was a success, with subsequent performances in Vi...

The first performance of I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

The first performance of I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers), a five-act opera by Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901), took place at the Paris Opera on June 13, 1855, under the direction of Narcisse Gira...

While librettist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) had worked previously in 1871-72 to write Thespis, a work for the Christmas season, the 1875 one-act comic opera Tria...

While librettist W.S. Gilbert (1836-1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900) had worked previously in 1871-72 to write Thespis, a work for the Christmas season, the 1875 one-act comic opera Tria...

L'opera più lunga di Ravel, quasi un'ora, il balletto completo in un atto Daphnis et Chloe, fu descritto dal compositore come una "symphonie choregraphique" (sinfonia coreografica). Ravel in...

L'opera più lunga di Ravel, quasi un'ora, il balletto completo in un atto Daphnis et Chloe, fu descritto dal compositore come una "symphonie choregraphique" (sinfonia coreografica). Ravel in...

L'opera più lunga di Ravel, quasi un'ora, il balletto completo in un atto Daphnis et Chloe, fu descritto dal compositore come una "symphonie choregraphique" (sinfonia coreografica). Ravel in...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Madama Butterfly, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

Madama Butterfly, one of the most popular operas of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is the story of the conflicting expectations of Lieutenant Pinkerton, an American naval officer, and Madame Butterfly (...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), was commissioned by the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, to write incidental music to a new production of Adam Oehlenschläger's "dramatic fairy tale" Aladdin, or...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

The melody we know today for "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing" was originally written by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) in 1840 as secular music for his Festgesang or Gutenberg Cantata to honor the creati...

The Chandos Anthems, HWV 246-256, are a collection of eleven anthems composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) when he was composer in residence at Cannons, the court of James Brydges, newly the...

The Chandos Anthems, HWV 246-256, are a collection of eleven anthems composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) when he was composer in residence at Cannons, the court of James Brydges, newly the...

Il noto inno NIMM VON UNS, HERR, DU TREUER GOTT, anch'esso musicato da J.S. Bach, fu scritto da Martin Moller durante un periodo di pestilenza e fu spesso usato come supplica contro la collera di Dio....

Il noto inno NIMM VON UNS, HERR, DU TREUER GOTT, anch'esso musicato da J.S. Bach, fu scritto da Martin Moller durante un periodo di pestilenza e fu spesso usato come supplica contro la collera di Dio....

Noto soprattutto come compositore dell'inno JERUSALEM, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) scrisse una serie di canzoni per coro e orchestra. Uno di questi, BLEST PAIR OF SIRENS (AT A SOLEMN MUS...

La popolarissima Oh Holy Night di Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) fu scritta nel 1847 e da allora è rimasta un classico dei canti natalizi. Il testo è tratto dal poema natalizio del poeta francese Placide Ca...