Italian media have reported the death today in Mariano Comense of the great Peruvian tenor Luigi Alva. Arriving in Milan in 1953 after serving in the Preuvian navy, Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo trained at […]
The budget label made its critical breakthrough in the late 1990s with a cycle of Bruckner symphonies conducted by the little-known Canada-based conductor Georg Tintner. A Hitler exile from Vienna, Tintner brought idiomatic assurance to […]
Based on author Alexander Pushkin’s novel in verse, Eugene Onegin had its world premiere in 1879. The opera was ground breaking for its time: instead of focusing on fast-paced, dramatic events, Eugene Onegin describes the inner worlds of […]