No doubt, Sir Georg Solti was one of the most auratic maestros of the past century. Being a real master of the orchestra he inevitably impressed his great visions of sound and interpretation upon the musicians and the audience. These rare black and white documentations produced in 1966 and 1968 show how Solti's amiable insistence in rehearsal with the Süddeutsche Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart turns Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture and Berlioz' Hungarian March into sharpened and haunting performances.

This is a good video of "Figaro", but there are a couple of better ones available. The Bohm and the ...

All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by Jame...

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The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

This May 2010 production of Massenet's 1910 opera "Don Quichotte" marked the opera's centenary and a...

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This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in ab...

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

A musical romantic tragedy about a famous composer who moves back to his small hometown after having...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...

An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...

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An unbroken sequence of fragments, last thoughts, elegies and absences by Schubert, Mozart, Wagner, ...

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