In 1958, rummaging through the Hungarian National Library in Budapest, a young U.S. musicologist named H. C. Robbins Landon unearthed a treasure-trove of eight operas by Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores ...

Most of Haydn's two dozen or so operas are deemed untheatrical and rarely performed, while about half of Puccini's dozen are among the greatest hits of all time. These composers would seem to make ...

CARBONDALE — Powerful operas by Italian master composer Gaetano Donizetti, along with celebrating the first two of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn’s “London Symphonies,” are among the highlights for ...

Both stagings kept the spotlight on the characters and droll situations. Field went the goofiest route in Act II of "Mondo," where foolish old Bonafede, an amateur astronomer who's been drugged, is ...

Once again Sarasota Opera will produce a rarely heard work by a major composer when Joseph Haydn’s Deceit Outwitted (L’infedeltà delusa) opens, the last work in the company’s 2024 Winter Opera ...

After a season of dark and tragic stories, the Sarasota Opera closes with much lighter fare that will be new to just about everyone. Joseph Haydn’s “Deceit Unwitted” (or “L’infedelta delusa”) had its ...

LEUVEN, Belgium (Reuters) - Belgian conductor and early music pioneer Sigiswald Kuijken has brought his anti-modernist approach to Joseph Haydn's opera "L'Isola Disabitata." Kuijken, 72, staged the ...

(Lo) Speziale, Movements: Overture Pardubice Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Joseph Haydn, Composer Michael Halász, Conductor Acide e Galatea, Movements: Overture (pub 1959) Michael Halász, Conductor ...

A primer on medieval chants, minimalist opera and everything in between. By Mitchell Kuga The novelist’s sheet music collection reveals new perspectives on her life and work. By Eleanor Stanford ...

Donald Macleod explores how his employer’s obsession for opera fuelled his own musical growth, despite a catastrophic fire. Show more “Haydn! The admirable and matchless Haydn!” That is how the ...