Chor & Gesang

Mozart's penultimate opera, The Magic Flute, presents an inextricable mixture of the unspoken and sung word, high principle and low cunning, the refined and the earthy, the sublime and the comic, for...

. . . a stirring and beautiful adventure. . . He has written some of the most ardent love music since Messiaen's, and love music finds its place in the opera. . . There is also music of pain and despa...

'Powder Her Face' is the libretto for an opera by Thomas Ades. It was comissioned by Almeida Opera and premiered in the 'Everyman Theatre' cheltenham on July 1st 1995, as part of the Cheltenham festiv...

The piece is full of clever and beautiful things; the early scenes proceed almost in convulsions of orchestral brilliance within a marvellously clear and animated world whose chief references, sometim...

Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert and the tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sulliv...

The Sorcerer is a two-act comic opera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan. It opened on November 17, 1877 at the Opera Comique in the Strand in London, where it ran for 178...

Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant, is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 5, 1884, for a run of 246 performances. By Savo...

Originally entitled 'Tevye', the musical 'Fiddler on the Roof' is based on Tevye and his Daughters, or Tevye the Milkman, and other stories originally published by the Russian Jewish author Sholom Ale...

Camelot, the 1960 musical play by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederic Loewe, is based on the King Arthur legend as adapted from the T. H. White novel 'The Once and Future King'. The main conflict of the nove...

The Pirates of Penzance takes its place along with The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore as one of the more frequently performed Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Its successful 1981 Broadway revival by Joseph Pa...

The Gods We Can Touch ist ein sehr intimes Buch, das die Leser auf eine Reise ins Herz von Auroras Welt, in ihren kreativen Prozess und ihre Inspiration beim Schreiben ihres gefeierten dritten Studioa...

Was ist mit dem Herzen passiert? Das ist die wichtigste, schönste und traurigste Frage, die ich mir je in meinem Leben gestellt habe.' AURORA Im April 2022 entdeckte Aurora einen Liebesbrief an die Er...