La clemenza di Tito. Opera seria in due atti (K. 621).
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Libretto by Caterino Mazzol‡ based on a text by Pietro Metastasio.
Lyric hopes to lift curse with restaged ‘Rigoletto’
http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/sho-sunday-rig15.html
Everyone’s Invited to Wolfgang’s Party, Willing or Not
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/15/arts/music/15holl.html
Army Helps DNA Scientists Unravel Mozart Mystery
http://www.military.com/features/0,15240,85019,00.html
Berlin Opera Night
At 73 minutes, this DVD of the typical gala affair ñ various soloists trot on, sing an aria, then trot off ñ canít be called generous, but it does have variety.
MASSENET: Werther
When you and I were young Maggie, there was only the fine Werther with Thill and Vallin and the Cetra recording with Tagliavini and his first wife, Pia Tassinari.
SCHEIDT: Ludi musici I, II, III & IV
I suspect that when we survey the musical landscape of the early seventeenth century, it is opera, monody, and madrigal that come most quickly and lastingly into view, and given the contemporaneous attention given to the relationship between music and word, it is unsurprising that this would be the case.
CACCINI: Nuove musiche
When Giulio Caccini entitled his landmark 1601/02 publication Le nuove musiche, he confidently laid claim both to the novelty of the emerging baroque style and his formidable role in bringing it to blossom.
GASPAROV: Five Operas and a Symphony
This new volume from Yale University Press is one of those rare and treasured phenomena in Russian music scholarship that illuminate their subject from a new angle ó that of cultural history. Indeed, Boris Gasparov’s expressed goal in Five Operas and a Symphony is nothing less than turning the table on poetry, philosophy, and literary criticism that have for so long ruled the field of Slavic research, and elucidating them from a musical point of view.