Henk van Heijnsbergen

After "Yevgeny Onegin", "Pikovaya Dama", also known as "The Queen of Spades", is Tchaikovsky's most famous and successful opera.
The composer...

When, in 1900, Giacomo Puccini attended David Belasco’s play "Madame Butterfly" in London, he found it to be ideal material for an opera. Although...

In his famous aria "La donna è mobile", the Duke of Mantua is probablyreferring more to his own unpredictability than the supposed ficklenessof women....

The best thing that ever happened to Richard Strauss was his encounterwith Oscar Wilde's "Salomé". The concentrated drama of Strauss'symphonic poems was the perfect...

With this La Fanciulla del West Flanders Opera adds a new chapter toit's Puccinicycle which was organised with conductor Silvio Varviso anddirector Robert Carsen....

‘La Traviata’ is both the last opera in what is known as GiuseppeVerdi’s ‘trilogia popolare’ or ‘popular trilogy’ (the other two being‘Rigoletto’ and ‘Il...

Richard III was the first political criminal, before Macbeth,whom Shakespeare chose to portray as a tragic hero. The hunchbackedking is fascinated by...

Being introduced to Oscar Wilde’s Salomé was one of the bestthings that could have happened to Richard Strauss. The compact...

After  La Bohème , Puccini went resolutely for innovation and drama pur sang with  Tosca.  One of the...