The Kiss holds a unique place in Smetana’s oeuvre; it was the first operatic work he composed after the great personal tragedy of completely losing his hearing. Eliška Krásnohorská adapted a short story by Czech […]
The prolific Finnish symphonist and conductor died today aged 80, his son has reported. After an education that he rounded off at Juilliard, Segerstam became chief conductor at Finnish National Opera, and at Stockholm’s Royal […]
Gniezno Cathedral and Lake Jelonek, Poland, where Mikołaj Zieleński worked(Photo by Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0/WikiMedia) Little is known of Mikołaj Zieleński beyond the fact that he published a major collection of works in 1611. On 14 August […]