Who doesn't know songs like Volare, Caruso, Arrivederci Roma and O sole mio? With the melodious voice of star tenor Stefan Pop, they become an irresistible delight. The Italian attitude to life is tailor-made for the Tenor and Operalia prizewinner…

Duke Ellington was a bandleader and musical director, pianist, in-house composer and arranger for his own big band, he left behind around 2000 works, composed film scores, for revue theatre and show stages, but also for the classical concert hall. He…

Sergey Malov is one of the most versatile string players. Coming from St. Petersburg is considered as versatile as he is virtuoso: he plays violin, viola, baroque violin and cello da spalla – the instrument on which Johann Sebastian Bach himself…

I Puritani is the last great masterpiece of the exceptional Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini. The intelligently conceived and thoroughly thrilling historical drama, written by the Italian librettist Conte Carlo Pepoli (1796-1881), and the fiery…

Mikhail Pletnev and the then newly formed Rachmaninoff International Orchestra (RIO) performed under the baton of Kent Nagano all four Rachmaninoff piano concertos and the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini in October 2023. The Rachmaninoff…

Premiered in 1892 and based on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, the tragic opera about unrequited love returns to Houston Grand Opera for the first time since 1979 with this production from French director Benoît Jacquot, making his HGO debut…

Lisette Oropesa has been nominated for the International Opera Awards 2024 in the category "Best Female Singer" Zarzuela was born as a court genre in the 17th century, and became a mass spectacle in the mid-19th century, spreading throughout the…

Antonio Pappano together with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden are presenting a symphonic work with particular relevance for Dresden: Rachmaninoff‘s Symphony No. 2, which was written during the composer‘s years at the Saxon residency. The…

The legendary recordings with the Münchner Philharmoniker: Tchaikovsky, Schumann, Dvořák, Ravel, Prokofiev and Debussy on one Blu-ray Sampler. The Münchner Philharmoniker and Sergiu Celibidache share an impressive legacy. Celibidache has been…

This Blu-ray sampler with carefully selected concerts accompanies Seiji Ozawa's impressive career over 3 decades. Seiji Ozawa was not only Japan’s best-known conductor but also the founder of the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto, which in 2015 was…