With a composer as widely beloved as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for an opera to be all but forgotten suggests the work has problems beyond redemption.
Der Rosenkavalier highlights on Classics for Pleasure
For the opera of average length, a decent highlights disc can feature as much as half the score.
Samson at Buxton Opera House
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Revealing the best kept secret in opera
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/features/display.var.2397662.0.Revealing_the_best_kept_secret_in_opera.php
Singers Muster at the Drill Hall
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Die Soldaten
Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a sensitive, none too healthy 21-year-old music prodigy in 1939, when he was drafted into the German army.
Troilus triumphant in Saint Louis Ö..
For Sir William Walton, the protracted genesis of Troilus and Cressida must have seemed more akin to the agonies of Sisyphus than to the composition of an opera.
CANDIDE ñ English National Opera, London Coliseum
Originating at the Ch‚telet, where the narration was given in French, Robert Carsen’s staging of Bernstein’s unique satire worked rather well in its television broadcast from the Parisian house late in 2006.