The author places the work within the oratorio tradition, and contrasts the theological and literary character of the English libretto with the Viennese milieu of the first performances. The complete ...
set to a brilliant new English libretto inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This time, the all-star cast is led by Susan Graham as Sycorax, with David Daniels ...
King’s resurrection of Jennens’s crucial role, laboring in private over a libretto that he hoped would inspire “the ...
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Originally composed in 1741, the English-language oratorio ... That’s when Jennens turned to the King James Bible for ...
The work also includes anonymous libretto inspired by the Old Testament’s King Solomon ... ‘The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba’. All of The English Concert’s Handel for All content is available here ...
It’s one of the greatest operas of the 20th century, with sensuously multicolored music by Claude Debussy and a psychologically probing libretto by the Belgian symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck.
M. Butterfly, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Barbican ★★☆☆☆ Puccini’s opera Madam Butterfly is such a ...
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Opera in the Heights has announced a new production of THE LITTLE PRINCE by Portman and Wright, set to premiere in December.
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Osvaldo Golijov’s AINADAMAR, which made ...