CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

The Dancing Nuns scene from Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable starting Thursday at the Royal Opera House. Robert le Diable is taken to the...

Hector Berlioz Les Troyens opens Monday at the Royal Opera House . Listen here for to a download of a live performance in 2006 at Opéra B...

Nicholas Collon conducted Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict with the Chelsea Opera Group last week at Cadogan Hall., Pleasae read Robert Hugill...

There aren't nearly as many recording of Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt as there should be, because it's an intriguing opera. ...

To increase your pleasure at the Royal Opera House Gounod Faust, here's a full download of a historic performance from Paris, 1953. Nico...

Bien merci to my dear friend Olivier, who sent this link to the live broadcast of La Traviata from Aix en Provence, on arte.tv. Dessay, Tézi...

" William Tell, William Tell, gone from the land he loved so well, William Tell, William Tell, William TELL ! of Switzerland" ...

Massenet's Cendrillon at the Royal Opera House with Joyce DiDonato in the lead sounds like a lot of fun! Cannot miss, with her singing ...

Opinion? Everyone does opinion. Informed opinion? it helps when the groundwork has been done, even if it's  basic background.  Anyway he...

After the depressingly superficial ENO Gilliam The Damnation of Faust at ENO last night, I need to hear the piece as music again.  First an...

O Weh! O Weh! sighs Werther. If I can't get what I want, I'll kill myself and you'll be sorreeeee! What do you expect from wan y...

While listenng to Walter Braunfels Die Vögel, I decded to look up Richard Wagner's Das Liebesverbot. Hit gold again with Opera Today, ...

Come hither, this portrait of Lucrezia Borgia seems to say. She's so young it's unhealthy and look what she has in her hand. A symbo...

Complete download f rom Opera Today of  Der Vampyr the short(ish) opera  by H A Marschner (1795-1861) which has been enjoying quite a reviv...

Here is a link to a full streaming download of A Midsummer Night's Dream . This is Mendelssohn, so a good orchestra is even more import...

Two major stagings of Rossini Armida this year, at Garsington and the Met, New York. Complete contrast, but one which shows that it's no...

Reynaldo Hahn's songs are luscious,. They seem to exist in a perfumed world beyond reality. But here is a full streaming download of his...

Mady Mesplé sings Ophélie's mad scene from Ambroise Thomas Hamlet .  There is also a clip circulating of Marlis Petersen singing it at ...

Perhaps Renée Fleming's performance before the beginning of Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet told us something. La  Renée started her spiel...