Mozart wrote his first opera at 12, and went on to pen 22 in the course of his life This summer there’s a rare opportunity to see Mozart’s La finta giardiniera fully staged in a new Glyndebourne ...
This week, Chicago’s being treated to dueling performances of Mozart by the city’s two major opera companies. If you like Mozart, it’s a minifestival—complementary performances of the prodigy’s ...
Teodor Currentzis is a Greek born conductor who trained in Moscow. Today he lives and works in the city of Perm, in the Ural mountains. Most recordings of Mozart's works come from Salzburg, Vienna, ...
In an era when almost all opera recordings are DVD videos, it’s remarkable to have a pair of Mozart releases designed specifically for audio only. It’s even nicer that both are so good. Deutsche ...
Genesis Opera Theatre recently announced its upcoming production of Mozart’s timeless opera “The Magic Flute,” set to captivate audiences from Sept. 6-8 at STAR Repertory Theatre in Escondido. “The ...
The Metropolitan Opera is streaming free encore opera performances every night during the pandemic. Read on for the performance schedule this week which they are calling, "Mozart Week." The ...
An updated Mozart classic, set in modern-day Beverly Hills, tackles race and immigration issues. By Jordan Riefe ‘White Lotus’ and the Ultra-Luxurious Thailand Hotels That Stood in for the “Best ...
Deutsche Grammophon, on occasion still willing to look like a proper classical music label, has started recording Mozart operas a while back, the common thread of which is the conducting of Yannick ...
Opera is impossible and always has been. The operatic ideal, an imagined union of all the human senses and all art forms—music, drama, dance, poetry, painting—is unattainable by its very nature. This ...
Music has its seasons, and people have their needs. At some point in the autumn of 1979, I became obsessed with a few bars of Mozart. I was thirteen, fundamentally cheerful but convinced I was ...