The neglect of Suppé this year is perhaps not that surprising (though he, not Johann Strauss II, started Viennese operetta), because interest in him has for decades been confined to his overtures. But ...

“The Tales of Hoffmann,” Jacques Offenbach’s bounteously imaginative mingling of reality and fantasy, stands as one of the opera world’s most peculiar and wonderful masterpieces. The opera’s unwieldy ...

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If there was one legend sure to source its fair share of opera, it had to be the tale of Orpheus, the Greek hero who could charm the birds out of the trees with his music. Monteverdi, Telemann, and ...

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