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Giuseppe's opera 'Macbeth' was first performed in 1847 and is based on William Shakespeare's play with the same name. The story is settled in Scotland in the middle of the 11th century. In the first a...

Giuseppe's opera 'Macbeth' was first performed in 1847 and is based on William Shakespeare's play with the same name. The story is settled in Scotland in the middle of the 11th century. In the first a...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his 'Symphony No. 7 in A major', Op. 92, between 1811 and 1812, while improving his health in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice. It is a symphony in four movements and at...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his 'Symphony No. 7 in A major', Op. 92, between 1811 and 1812, while improving his health in the Bohemian spa town of Teplice. It is a symphony in four movements and at...

In 1906 Richard Strauss composed the song "Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland" on a text by Heinrich Heine. The text is a simple telling of the Three Kings following the star, and entering the ho...

In 1906 Richard Strauss composed the song "Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland" on a text by Heinrich Heine. The text is a simple telling of the Three Kings following the star, and entering the ho...

The 'Studenten polka', Opus 263 is a polka that was written by Johann Strauss jr. in 1862 for the first general student carnival ball in Vienna after the revolution of 1848 and premiered on February 2...

The 'Studenten polka', Opus 263 is a polka that was written by Johann Strauss jr. in 1862 for the first general student carnival ball in Vienna after the revolution of 1848 and premiered on February 2...

German composer Peter Cornelius composed his song cycle "Weihnachtslieder" ("Christmas Songs"), Opus 8, in 1856. Cornelius, who also was a gifted writer and had first pursued a career as an actor, wro...

German composer Peter Cornelius composed his song cycle "Weihnachtslieder" ("Christmas Songs"), Opus 8, in 1856. Cornelius, who also was a gifted writer and had first pursued a career as an actor, wro...

His comic opera The Bartered Bride is one of the most important works in the Slavonic opera repertoire and the Overture is among one of Smetana's most brilliant and inspired orchestral pieces. (Concer...

Lob des hohen Verstandes is one of the humorous and almost ironic Wunderhornsongs. ((Mezzo)Soprano / Baritone and Concert Band)

La Pícara Molinera ("The teasing millgirl") is a zarzuela by Spanish composer Pablo Luna (1879-1942). Premiered in 1928, "La Pícara Molinera" is considered as one of the great successes of the compose...

La Pícara Molinera ("The teasing millgirl") is a zarzuela by Spanish composer Pablo Luna (1879-1942). Premiered in 1928, "La Pícara Molinera" is considered as one of the great successes of the compose...

'The Tale of Tsar Saltan' is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and is based on the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. The story features Prince Gvidon who becomes separate...

'The Tale of Tsar Saltan' is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and is based on the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. The story features Prince Gvidon who becomes separate...

Gustav Mahler composed his 'Wunderhornlieder' (Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn) between 1892 and 1901. Just half of the 'Wunderhornlieder' have military subjects but beside those there are songs wit...

Gustav Mahler composed his 'Wunderhornlieder' (Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn) between 1892 and 1901. Just half of the 'Wunderhornlieder' have military subjects but beside those there are songs wit...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d'Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d'Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...

'King Arthur' is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the leg...

'King Arthur' is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the leg...

Lob des hohen Verstandes is one of the humorous and almost ironic Wunderhornsongs. ((Mezzo)Soprano / Baritone and Concert Band)

Richard Wagner's Fliedermonolog Was duftet doch der Flieder is sung in the second act of the Opera Die Meistersinger: Sitting outside his house on a sultry Midsummer's Eve, Hans Sachs tries to concent...

Gustav Mahler's first four symphonies are often referred to as the 'Wunderhorn Symphonies' because many of their themes originate in earlier songs by Mahler on texts from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'. His...