Opern für Blasorchester

The aria Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen is sung by Papageno near the very end of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte. He sighs for someone to love. (Baritone and Concert Band)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is different from many operas. It is intimate, devoid of spectacle, taking place completely within a house in Nagasaki. The Coro a bocca chiusa is the Summ Choir from the op...

George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of thos...

When Puccini's opera Turandot was heard for the first time in April 1926, its composer had been dead for almost a year and a half. Turandot is considered as his best work: Puccini's mastery of orchest...

The Austrian composer Carl Zeller (1842-1898) did contribute a great part to the glory of the Golden Era of the Viennese operetta in which Johann Strauss jr., Franz von Suppé and Karl Millöcker were t...

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 indiv...

Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the...

'Dido's Lament' is a recitative followed by an aria by the English composer Henry Purcell. The piece is the dramatic climax of his opera Dido and Aeneas based on the Aeneis by Vergilius. The recitativ...

Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953) was a contemporary of Bartók and Kodály at the Budapest Academy of Music. He first coupled a career as a music critic with more conventionally serious composition, before,...

Johann Strauss's (1825-1899) ninth operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin and is his only operetta to be premiered outside Vienna. Although the score gained high a...

Johann Strauss's (1825-1899) ninth operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin and is his only operetta to be premiered outside Vienna. Although the score gained high a...

Carl Millöcker (1842-1899), was an Austrian composer mainly known for his operetta Der Bettelstudent. In 1884 Millocker composed the opereatta Gasparone. on a libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Ge...

The music for Johann Strauss' Operetta 'Der Zigeunerbaron' is regularly performed today. The orchestral pieces that Strauss furnished from the work were also well-recognised, among them, the sparkling...

Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), hat seine zweite Oper 'Die verkaufte Braut' nach einem Libretto von Karel Sabina komponiert. Die Uraufführung fand am 30. Mai 1866 im Interimstheater in Prag statt. Die he...