Jos van de Braak: Mittelschwere Noten

Giacomo Puccinis Suor Angelica (Schwester Angelica) ist eine der drei Einakter, die zum Triptychon Il Trittico gehören, einem Beispiel für die Verismo-Oper, eine naturalistische Bewegung in der italie...

Jocelyn ist eine Oper in vier Akten von Benjamin Godard und ist am besten für Godards nachhaltigste Komposition, die zarte Berceuse (Wiegenlied) für Tenor Oh! ne t'éveille pas encore bekannt in Englis...

Jocelyn ist eine Oper in vier Akten von Benjamin Godard und ist am besten für Godards dauerhafteste Komposition, die zarte Berceuse (Wiegenlied) für Tenor Oh! ne t'éveille pas encore bekannt in Englis...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo, both composer and librettist, based Pagliacci on real-life events he recalled from childhood. From these he fashioned a vivid musical play with intense passions build in the live...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo, both composer and librettist, based Pagliacci on real-life events he recalled from childhood. From these he fashioned a vivid musical play with intense passions build in the live...

Faust is based on the novel Faust und Margarethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the libretto was conceived by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre.It's the story of the old Dr. Faust who once again wants...

Faust is based on the novel Faust und Margarethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the libretto was conceived by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre.It's the story of the old Dr. Faust who once again wants...

The opera Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was premiered in 1910 and was based on the play by Jacques La Lorrain. It is placed in the Spanish Middle Ages. The aria Riez ,allez, riez du pauv...

The opera Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) was premiered in 1910 and was based on the play by Jacques La Lorrain. It is placed in the Spanish Middle Ages. The aria Riez ,allez, riez du pauv...

Bellini wrote his opera I Capuleti e I Montecchi in 1825. It handles about the traditional story of Giulietta e Romeo. The aria Eccomi in lieta vesta... is sung in the first act: In her room, Giuliett...

Bellini wrote his opera I Capuleti e I Montecchi in 1825. It handles about the traditional story of Giulietta e Romeo. The aria Eccomi in lieta vesta... is sung in the first act: In her room, Giuliett...

La Sonnambula is the first of Bellini's major opera's. The first performance took place in 1831 at the Teatro Carcano in Milan.The aria Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni is sung in the first act: Count Rodol...

La Sonnambula is the first of Bellini's major opera's. The first performance took place in 1831 at the Teatro Carcano in Milan.The aria Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni is sung in the first act: Count Rodol...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The aria Spiel'ich die Unschuld vom Lande is sung in the third act by...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The aria Spiel'ich die Unschuld vom Lande is sung in the third act by...

Mozart's funeral motet Ave verum corpus was composed in june 1791 for Anton Stroll, choirmaster at the spa of Baden, near Vienna. Within a tiny span the music sounds an extraordinary depth of feeling,...

Unter den Kompositionen von Charles Gounod befinden sich mehrere hundert geistliche Sololieder, darunter seine Vertonung des katholischen Hymnus "Ave Maria" von 1852. Vierzig Jahre später komponierte...

Am Weihnachtsabend des Jahres 1818 zeigte der katholische Priester Josef Mohr dem österreichischen Komponisten Franz Xaver Gruber ein sechsstrophiges Gedicht, das er 1816 geschrieben hatte, und bat Gr...

Am Weihnachtsabend des Jahres 1818 zeigte der katholische Priester Josef Mohr dem österreichischen Komponisten Franz Xaver Gruber ein sechsstrophiges Gedicht, das er 1816 geschrieben hatte, und bat Gr...

Die Oper "La Wally" von Alfredo Catalani ist vor allem für die Arie "Ebben? Ne andro lontana'. Er hatte diese Arie 1878 unabhängig als "Chanson GroÙnlandaise" komponiert und sie später in seine Oper a...

Alfredo Catalani's Opera "La Wally" is best known for its aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana". He had composed that aria independently as "Chanson Groënlandaise" in 1878 and later incorporated it into his...

When Russian composer Joseph Schillinger met Leon Theremin (the inventor of the theremin) they collaborated resulting in a few of the first original pieces for the theremin. Among those pieces Schilli...