In a room filled with music scholars, conversations surrounding the name Franz Joseph Haydn would be synonymous with symphonic music, keyboard works, operas, string quartets, and vocal music.
Year: 2006
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Portrait
2006 is a centenary year of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) – a great Russian composer of the 20th century, and a complicated and tortured soul whose posthumous legacy has been a subject of heated ideological debates in recent years.
Celebrating a trailblazing mezzo-soprano
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/07/07/celebrating_a_trailblazing_mezzo_soprano/
BIZET: Carmen
OpÈra comique in four acts.
Music composed by Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic HalÈvy after Prosper MÈrimÈe’s novella, Carmen.
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Was Ferrier of Our Era: Norman Lebrecht
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aP6y.wYP9on4&refer=culture
GESUALDO DA VENOSA: Quarto Libro di Madrigali
MONTEVERDI: Madrigals Book 4
Two sets of madrigals, each the fourth book published by its composer, give complementary views of the state of madrigal composition in Italy in the years either side of 1600.
Ana MarÌa S·nchez: Zarzuela
During the fifties and sixties, it was almost impossible (or horrendously expensive) to collect the hundreds of recordings of zarzuela outside Spain and some Latin American countries.
PUCCINI: Il Tabarro
LEONCAVALLO: I Pagliacci
The recent Deutsche Grammaphone release of an insightful Metropolitan Opera double bill from 1994 provides a fascinating comparison of contrasting verismo worlds.
Three Sopranos: Elena Obraztsova, Ileana Cotrubas, Renata Scotto
Even with a magnifying glass you won’t be able to find a date of this concert on either the DVD itself or in the sleeve notes.