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With Le Nozze di Figaro , Mozart simultaneously capitalised on the great success of opera buffa under Joseph II...
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Georg Friedrich Händel wrote about forty Italian operas for the London theatres. Among them, "Ariodante" is definitely a masterpiece, even though the reputation of...
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With this Idomeneo , Mozart follows in the footsteps of Gluck’sreform of the Italian opera seria. The contemplative nature of theserious...
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Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites takes us within the closed setting of a Carmelite convent at the time of the French...