Lumee, one of the two main characters (of the opera p r i s m), sings this aria while smoking outside a nightclub in the second act, providing a window into her selfish fantasies. Not a recorded section of the opera, but a companion piece meant to depict the character's imagined realities.

Like Handel’s Orlando (1732) and Ariodante (1734), Alcina derives from the narrative material in Ari...

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With the “Méditation”, Jules Massenet probably wrote one of the most famous melodies of our time. It...

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The documentary draws a portrait of an opera director who is staging Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre. H...

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A psychological interpretation of the opera mixing in references to the history of Germany, Wagner’s...

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Götterdämmerung, the fourth of Richard Wagner's four Ring operas. The cast features Manfred Jung as ...

It is a rare opera indeed that calls for one soprano diva and no fewer than six tenors. Mary Zimmerm...