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eoš Janáček’s third opera, with its echoes of folk music from the composer’s native Moravia, was his first real success andwas given the sobriquet of »Moravia’s national opera«. more
Claudio Monteverdi’s »Orfeo« is considered to be the first opera and a masterpiece of European musical history. Certainly, this setting to music of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is the earliest surviving »Favola in musica«, which at its première in... more
Although Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 2 from 1879 is overshadowed by his No. 1, its lyrical and dramatic passages both display extraordinary qualities. Respighi’s »Symphonic Poems« from the 1910s and 1920s, which take up the motifs of Rome’s pine... more
The world of »Freischütz«, where Agathe, the daughter of the hereditary forester, and her fiancé, the unfortunate huntsman’s apprentice Max, have to fight for their love is neither idyllic nor intact. The superstitious inhabitants of the forest want to... more
Who isn’t familiar with the fairy tale of the children who lose themselves in the forest, only to discover the gingerbread house of a witch who takes them captive and wants to eat them, cannibal-style? In Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera version of the tale,... more
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