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Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) is an opera in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The plot concerns the attempt of the hero Belmonte, assisted by his servant Pedril...

The 'Duetto buffo di due gatti' (Comic duet for two cats) is a popular performance piece for two sopranos which is often performed as a concert encore. The 'lyrics' consist entirely of the repeated wo...

The 'Duetto buffo di due gatti' (Comic duet for two cats) is a popular performance piece for two sopranos which is often performed as a concert encore. The 'lyrics' consist entirely of the repeated wo...

'Der Zigeunerbaron' is Strauss's second most popular operetta after 'Die Fledermaus'. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to...

Emmerich Kálmán (1882-1953) war zusammen mit Bartók und Kodály an der Budapester Musikakademie und wandte sich 1908 der Operettenkomposition zu. Die 'Gräfin Marzia' ist eines seiner bekanntesten Stück...

Gustav Mahler composed his 'Wunderhornlieder' (Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn) between 1892 and 1901. Just half of the Wunderhornlieder have military subjects but beside those there are songs with...

Gustav Mahler composed his 'Wunderhornlieder' (Songs from the Youth's Magic Horn) between 1892 and 1901. Just half of the Wunderhornlieder have military subjects but beside those there are songs with...

Johann Strauss' zwölfte Operette 'Fürstin Ninetta' feierte seine Premiere im Jahr 1893 im Theater an der Wien. Eine typische Strauss-Operette mit Verwechslungen und Komplikationen rund um die russisch...

Premiered in January 1893 "Ninetta", Strauss's twelfth operetta, was quite a success, running for 76 performances at the "Theater an der Wien". The story is filled with misunderstandings and complicat...

Erst nach einigen Umarbeitungen wurde Johann Strauss' jr. neunte Operette 'Eine Nacht in Venedig' zum Erfolg. Die Arie 'Was mir der Zufall gab' wird von Annina zu Beginn des zweiten Aktes gesungen.

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' (1825-1899) neunte Operette 'Eine Nacht in Venedig' ist seine einzige, die ihre Uraufführung nicht in Wien feierte, sie wurde 1883 in Berlin uraufgeführt. Dort fiel die Operette zunäch...

As a composer Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta Die lustige Witwe, (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to give his talen...

'La Bohème' was first performed in 1886. It soon became a staple of the operatic repertoire and has remained so ever since. Puccini had begun for the first time to speak with his own unmistakable voic...

'La Bohème' was first performed in 1886. It soon became a staple of the operatic repertoire and has remained so ever since. Puccini had begun for the first time to speak with his own unmistakable voic...

Johann Strauss Junior komponierte neben seinen rund 150 Walzern einige Operetten, unter denen die 'Fledermaus' sein wohl bester Beitrag zu diesem Genre war. Roger Niese folgt in seiner Transkription d...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which "Die Fledermaus" his best contribution to this genre is. This transcription follows the final of the 1st act with the terzett...

Rudolf Sieczynski (1879-1952) was an Austrian composer of Polish ancestry. His fame today rests almost exclusively on the nostalgic Viennese song Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (Vienna, City of My Dream...

Rudolf Sieczynski (1879-1952) was an Austrian composer of Polish ancestry. His fame today rests almost exclusively on the nostalgic Viennese song Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (Vienna, City of My Dream...

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...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which "Die Fledermaus" his best contribution to this genre is. The terzett "Nein mit solchen Advokaten" is sung by Rosalinde, Blind...