Hibla Gerzmava suggests pursuing your dream, Ivan Gyngazov tells that you should fall in love with opera, Dmitry Ulyanov ...
Nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts,” Beethoven wrote his publisher to describe the scene, which did nothing to help his incipient hearing loss. He dedicated the concerto not to ...
The encore allowed the Vienna Philharmonic to display its trademark style of charm and technical elegance, transporting the ...
What do you do when reviving an opera that has already had two different first halves written for it before? Create yet another one, of course. Iván Fischer’s revival of Richard Strauss’s ...
A production fusing traditional Chinese opera with Western classical music took place in London in October, with a performance inspired by the life of Cai Lun, the man credited with the invention of ...
The cross-cultural production “Ein Heldenleben · CAI LUN” blends Richard Strauss’s symphonic music with Peking opera to tell the story of Ts'ai Lun, the Chinese inventor who revolutionized ...
At LSO St Luke's, two actors dressed in Peking Opera attire delivered their recitative lines in the traditional style, accompanied by an orchestra performing Richard Strauss's symphonic poem Ein ...
To this ingenious story, Richard Strauss added world-class music, turning the title into one of the 20th century’s most iconic operas, an extraordinary example of the fusion of music and drama. After ...