Peter Züll

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed his opera Rigoletto in 1851 and together with La Traviata (1853) and Il Trovatore (1853), this opera belongs to the top of Giuseppe Verdi's middle period of composing....

Giuseppe Verdi composed the Opera Attila for the theatre of Venice were it was first performed in 1846. The plot includes the story of Attila, king of the Huns who has invaded Italy. (Concert Band)

Giuseppe Verdi composed the Opera Attila for the theatre of Venice were it was first performed in 1846. The plot includes the story of Attila, king of the Huns who has invaded Italy. (Concert Band)

The overture to The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (1885) catered for the contemporary taste for the exoticism of the orient, whilst remaining perceptibly a satire on the British traditions. It is the o...

The overture to The Mikado or The Town of Titipu (1885) catered for the contemporary taste for the exoticism of the orient, whilst remaining perceptibly a satire on the British traditions. It is the o...

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) started working on his only opera Prince Igor in 1869, but at his death 18 years later it remained unfinished.The splendid overture seems to have been completed by Glazun...

The intermezzo is the fifth movement of the original suite of Aram Khachaturian's music to Lope Felix de Vega Carpio's Spanish comedy The Valencian Widow.A somber dramatically opening leads to a slowe...

The intermezzo is the fifth movement of the original suite of Aram Khachaturian's music to Lope Felix de Vega Carpio's Spanish comedy The Valencian Widow.A somber dramatically opening leads to a slowe...

Also sprach Zarathustra!', ('Thus Spoke Zarathustra') is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra!'. The compo...

Also sprach Zarathustra!', ('Thus Spoke Zarathustra') is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra!'. The compo...

Cavalleria Rusticana became Pietro Mascagni's most successful opera. It is still a great repertoire favorite, almost always double-billed with Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. The aria Voi lo sapete,...

'Der Rosenkavalier' (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was first perform...

'Der Rosenkavalier' (The Knight of the Rose or The Rose-Bearer), Op. 59, is a comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to an original German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was first perform...

Cavalleria Rusticana became Pietro Mascagni's most successful opera. It is still a great repertoire favorite, almost always double-billed with Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. The aria Voi lo sapete,...

In 1927, when Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and his wife Elsa were invited for a trip to Brazil for conducting and recitals in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo he also found some time to explore nati...

In 1927, when Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and his wife Elsa were invited for a trip to Brazil for conducting and recitals in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo he also found some time to explore nati...

In the fall of 1928, Dmitri Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), completed this arrangement for orchestra, Tahiti Trot. The original music is from a song Tea for Two that Vincent Youmans (1898 - 1946) w...

His comic opera The Bartered Bride is one of the most important works in the Slavonic opera repertoire and the Overture is among one of Smetana's most brilliant and inspired orchestral pieces. (Concer...

His comic opera The Bartered Bride is one of the most important works in the Slavonic opera repertoire and the Overture is among one of Smetana's most brilliant and inspired orchestral pieces. (Concer...

The Tale of Tsar Saltan' is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and is based on the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. The story features Prince Gvidon who becomes separated...

The Tale of Tsar Saltan' is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and is based on the 1831 poem of the same name by Aleksandr Pushkin. The story features Prince Gvidon who becomes separated...

King Arthur' is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the lege...

King Arthur' is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the lege...

Orphée aux enfers' (Orpheus in the Underworld), is a comic operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1858. The operetta is an irreverent parody and scathing satire on Gluck and his 'Orfeo ed Euridice'...

Orphée aux enfers' (Orpheus in the Underworld), is a comic operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1858. The operetta is an irreverent parody and scathing satire on Gluck and his 'Orfeo ed Euridice'...