Drawing on the definitive scholarly-critical edition by Hendrik Schulze et al., the renowned conductor, harpsichordist and organist Jörg Halubek has joined forces with students from the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart ...

The episode about Armida from Torquato Tasso’s epic poem “La Gerusalemme liberata” (1575) has been one of the most popular opera subjects since the 17th century, inspiring numerous composers including Lully, Haydn, Rossini and Dvorák ...

The Indian king Poros offers fierce resistance during Alexander the Great's conquest of India in 327 BC. When the defence threatens to fail, his lover Cleofide decides to use her beauty to ensnare Alexander and to save Poros.

The ...

The music drama “Pagliacci”, in which the aging fairground actor Canio learns that his young wife is cheating on him and he can no longer distinguish between theatre and reality due to jealousy, was Leoncavallo’s greatest success and at the ...

In 1768, Empress Maria Theresa asked Gluck to compose a festive opera to mark the marriage of her daughter Maria Amalia to Ferdinand of Spain in Parma. The composer accepted the commission and created “Le feste d'Apollo”, consisting of several ...

In Georg Philipp Telemann’s opera “Orpheus”, the focus is not on Eurydice, but on Queen Orasia, who is inflamed with mad but unrequited love for the legendary singer.

The first documented performance of the work took place in Hamburg ...

“Berenice, Regina d’Egitto” HWV 38 was the last of three operas Handel newly composed for the 1736/37 season at the Royal Theatre in Covent Garden. A month before the planned premiere, the composer suffered a stroke that left his right arm ...

“Les Boréades” was actually intended to be performed at the Théâtre de Choisy in Paris in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years’ War on the occasion of the peace celebrations. However, after two rehearsals with the biggest ...