Hakutulokset: Sarja calder opera guides in association with the english national opera (eno)
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Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball)
'See how the drama is turned into laughter,' comment the chorus, as they witness the destruction of a marriage and a friendship. Here Pierluigi Petrobelli shows how the irony woven …
Pelleas & Melisande
In this Guide to Pelleas and Melisande, Maeterlinck's original play is reprinted in full, so that the opera lover can read the scenes that Debussy did not set to music. Hugh …
Boris Godunov
This famous opera has had a chequered performance history, and Professor Laurel E. Fay, in an illuminating musical analysis, points out that the interpretation of the opera depends …
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)
'A Landmark in Musical History' is John Luke Rose's title for the introduction to this extraordinary piece of theatre. It belongs to the German tradition of mystical writing, and a …
Tannhauser
What can explain Wagner's obsession with Tannhauser, an opera which he first conceived in 1845 and still considered unfinished at his death in 1883? The subject is the struggle of …
Il barbiere di Siviglia / Moise et Pharaon (The Barber of Seville / Moses and Pharaoh)
Rossini is one of the great operatic composers and a major innovator in the field of serious and comic operas. Moise et Pharaon is a score which he revised for Paris ten years …
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg)
This opera has been described as "the longest single smile in the German language". But Roland Matthews indicates that violence is not far beneath the surface of this portrait of …
Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold)
Das Rheingold, the opening of Wagner's four-part Ring of Nibelung, stands out as more genteel and picturesque than the others. But it immediately establishes the huge scale of the …