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Dvorák composed the song cycle Zigeunermelodien op. 55 after texts by the Czech poet Adolf Heyduk at the beginning of 1880 at the request of Gustav Walter, a tenor from Bohemia and member of the Vienn...

The libretto of Handel's probably shortest opera - the most important setting of the material alongside Mozart's "Lucio Silla" - is based on Plutarch's description of the life of the cruel Roman consu...

Handel's three-act opera "Sosarme, Re di Media" (HWV 30) was first performed in 1732 with the star castrato Senesino in the title role. The plot centers on a family conflict over the succession to the...

Handel composed his first Italian oratorio "La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" in 1707, based on an allegorical and moralistic libretto by his patron Cardinal Benedetto Pamp...

For Beat Furrer, the poet Dino Campana (1885-1932) is "probably the only Italian writer of his time who was able to bring the new futuristic ideas to life with great poetic power and a strong connecti...

Three poems by the French lyricist Louis Amade, known for his texts for Edith Piaf and Gilbert Bécaud, provide the basis for a "sequence of images" of human emotional worlds. While retaining a cantabi...

The volume "Lieder I" of the five-volume Urtext edition of all Antonín Dvorák's solo songs with piano accompaniment contains 31 songs - from Dvorák's first publicly performed, previously unpublished s...

The volume "Lieder I" of the five-volume Urtext edition of all Antonín Dvorák's solo songs with piano accompaniment contains 31 songs - from Dvorák's first publicly performed, previously unpublished s...

After the already published early love songs "The Cypresses", the Urtext editions of all Dvorák's other songs with piano accompaniment are now forthcoming. The collection "Songs II" comprises the matu...

The Missa in B flat KV 275 was written in 1777. Following the tradition of the "Missa brevis", the movements are short, and in text-rich movements such as the "Credo", different text passages are sung...

The fact that the "opéra comique", rooted in the folk art of French vaudeville, was brought to one of its high points in Vienna by Gluck, an Italian composer from the Upper Palatinate, clearly shows t...

Drame lyrique in three acts and a prologue (1779) Libretto: Louis-Théodore Baron de Tschudi (after "Narcissos ed Eco" from Ovid's Metamorfosi) (French) Premiere: September 24, 1779, Paris, Opéra (Pala...

Opéra comique in two acts (1760) Libretto: Louis Anseaume (for Jean-Louis Laruette's opéra comique "L'ivrogne corrigé ou Le mariage du diable" of 1759; adapted by Charles Simon Favart) (French) Premie...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

The motets and choral pieces, composed with the distinctive features of the Madeleine organ in mind, enchant with their colourful, floating harmonies and convey a certain intimacy even with their ritu...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

The magic of Fauré's works written for church music contexts is unique. The motets and chants written for the special features of the Madeleine choir organ have the particular colourfulness of a float...

Georg Christian Schemelli (around 1680–1762) was a pupil at the Leipzig St. Thomas School and later became cantor at the palace in Zeitz. He owes his fame to the fact that in 1763, he convinced Johann...

Comic opera in three acts H. 346 (1954)/Libretto: Bohuslav Martinú (after Carlo Goldoni's comedy "La locandiera" from 1752)(Italian) Premiere: 17. May 1959, Prague, Národní divadlo (National Theater)/...