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The Barcarole is sung at the beginning of the second act of Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffman. Hoffman tells the story of his affair with the Venetian courtesan Giulietta. The place of acting is...

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...

L'Amico Fritz ist eine Oper in drei Akten des italienischen Komponisten Pietro Mascagni, die 1891 uraufgeführt wurde. Obwohl die Oper zu ihrer Zeit einige Erfolge feierte und wahrscheinlich Mascagnis...

L'Amico Fritz ist eine Oper in drei Akten des italienischen Komponisten Pietro Mascagni, die 1891 uraufgeführt wurde. Obwohl die Oper zu ihrer Zeit einige Erfolge feierte und wahrscheinlich Mascagnis...

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...

Otto Nicolai's last opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor is the only one left and also his only one in German language. It is still one of the most performed opera's in Germany opera houses. The libr...

Otto Nicolai's last opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor is the only one left and also his only one in German language. It is still one of the most performed opera's in Germany opera houses. The libr...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed his opera Rigoletto in 1851 and together with La Traviata (1853) and Il Trovatore (1853) it belongs to the top of his middle period of composing. The quartet Un di se...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed his opera Rigoletto in 1851 and together with La Traviata (1853) and Il Trovatore (1853) it belongs to the top of his middle period of composing. The quartet Un di se...

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...

Urlicht belongs to Mahler's Wunderhornlieder. The song is also used in in his second symphony called 'Auferstehung'. The text of the song deals about the great pain and despair that mankind is living...

Urlicht belongs to Mahler's Wunderhornlieder. The song is also used in in his second symphony called 'Auferstehung'. The text of the song deals about the great pain and despair that mankind is living...

La Traviata tells the story of the young and beautiful courtesan Violetta who falls in love with Alfredo, an ordinary and poor young man. She leaves her luxurious live for him and finally offers her l...

La Traviata tells the story of the young and beautiful courtesan Violetta who falls in love with Alfredo, an ordinary and poor young man. She leaves her luxurious live for him and finally offers her l...

The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) started working on his German Requiem before reaching the age of 30, and by the time he was 33 he had completed it in its essentials - a work whose char...

The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) started working on his German Requiem before reaching the age of 30, and by the time he was 33 he had completed it in its essentials - a work whose char...

About Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias The Times said: 'Never was there a more complete triumph - never a more thorough and speedy recognition of a great work of art.' The libretto of Elijah is most skilf...

About Mendelssohn's oratorio Elias The Times said: 'Never was there a more complete triumph - never a more thorough and speedy recognition of a great work of art.' The libretto of Elijah is most skilf...

The Messe breve no.7 'Aux Chapelles', in C major dates from the 1890's. With its purity of line and transparent polyphony, its melodic simplicity and the economy of its modulations, the Messe breve no...

Don Carlo (1867) composed in the middle-period of Giuseppe Verdi's musical career, - nowadays mostly played in Italian - originally was written as a French 'Grand Opera'.Giuseppe Verdi at that time wa...

Don Carlo (1867) composed in the middle-period of Giuseppe Verdi's musical career, - nowadays mostly played in Italian - originally was written as a French 'Grand Opera'.Giuseppe Verdi at that time wa...

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...

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...