This is a beautifully-recorded mix of traditional and contemporary works on teh much-respected Avie label that celebrates the choir’s musical heritage, It begins with a carol by William Walton, Make we joy now in this […]
Offenbach wrote his four-act romantic opera, Les fées du Rhin in 1864, for the Hofoper in Vienna where it was performed in a German translation as Die Rheinnixen. The tenor Alois Ander was ill and […]
From a new essay in the Music Quarterly by Joseph N. Straus of the City University of New York. I find the article objectionable from the opening sentence on. Almost every assertion can be challenged, […]