This week we’ve a grandiose choral work inspired by a composer’s love for the beautiful game, along with two noisily enjoyable attempts to portray physical movement in musical terms. A frighteningly ...

Opera arias by Mozart, Gounod, Rossini, Weber and Dvorak (Karita Mattila, soprano; Philharmonia Orchestra, John Pritchard, cond.; Philips, 52:50). With her first operatic recital disc for Philips, ...

‘Largo al factotum’ is the spectacular entrance music for Figaro, the famous barber character in Rossini’s comic opera, The Barber of Seville. As the aria is the audience’s first introduction to the ...

Jonathan Lemalu’s debut album heralds what promises to be an important new operatic voice. The 28-year-old New Zealand bass-baritone already has begun making British and European operatic appearances ...

Much ado about nothing? Or everything? With light comedy, lack of tragedy, minimal plot, and a succession of glorious arias, the Rossini opera Il viaggio a Reims was definitely “ado” — in overdrive — ...

The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall Sunday night did not make sense. Mannequins in the lobby displayed gowns courtesy of Judy Lee Design. The evening was titled “Italian ...

The cult of "Dudamania" lives on tonight, with a live concert web-cast at NPR Classical. The gifted young conductor Gustavo Dudamel officially begins his second season as the music director of the Los ...

TWO hundred years after Peru became the first New World country to produce its own operatic culture, South America is throwing up a fresh generation of impressive young tenors. Jose Cura and Marcelo ...