Mozart’s Idomeneo is regarded as his first mature opera, written for Munich in 1781. The subject may not have been Mozart’s choice but it represents the composers continuing engagement with Italian opera seria, a style that […]
PROMS 2025: Varèse, Thovaldsdottir, Ravel, Stravinsky Johannes Moser (cello); BBC Symphony Orchestra / Eva Ollikainen (conductor). Royal lbert Hall, 13.08.2025 Varèse Intégales (1924/25) Thorvaldsdottir Before We Fall (2024, UK premiere) Ravel Boléro (1928) Stravinsky Le sacre du primtemps (1911-13) […]
Scientists in Austria have reconstructed what Mozart might have looked like from the structure of his skull. He looks like a disaffected member of a short-life boy bank The post If this is Mozart, was […]