When Giuseppe Verdi encountered the drama about the King of the Huns by the German Romantic poet Zacharias Werner, he saw its potential as opera. Although audiences and the press initially welcomed the premiere in […]
Joseph Gibbs: 8 Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo, Op. 1; The Brook Street Band; First Hand Records Warm and characterful music that deserves to be better known. Provincial in fact but not in reputation, the […]
A career-long executive at the home of Italian opera, Maria Di Freda has died of an incurable illness. Maria joined La Scala in 1973 and was promoted to personnel director in 1991. Suriving the tubulent […]