Category: Recordings

The worlds of lieder and opera seem to share the same galaxy, while being countless light years apart.

The December opening of the La Scala season requires a notable production, and in 2001 a gorgeous new production of Verdi’s Otello fit the bill.

Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955) is an engaging composer, and his recent works includes a chamber opera entitled Faustus, the Last Night, a unique setting of the legend and a fine contribution to modern opera.

A note on the inside back cover of the booklets for these two releases announces that they are part of a new Supraphon series dedicated to “archive recordings of complete operas not yet available on CD.”

A number of performances from the Sferisterio Opera Festival have been released in recent months.

Videos from the Bayreuth Festspiele typically feature the highest quality audio and video of any live performance documents.

The back cover description of this Medici Arts DVD can fairly be called misleading, though not dishonest.

Although this DVD comes on the Naxos label, an earlier CD version of the same performance went under the Dynamic label, specialists in rare repertory.

Dear non-German speaking Opera Today reader — what’s your first guess as to the meaning of the biggest word in the title of this obscure Johann Strauss operetta?

Will the 22nd century still see the opera-loving world as fascinated by the ongoing saga of the Wagner family as the 20th did and the 21st does?