While opera remains the most acquired of the classical music tastes, opera overtures are pretty easy to digest. Some opera overtures are known to many who don’t consider themselves to be classical ...

Sir Karl Jenkins celebrates his 75th birthday with a new piano album of his best-loved works and two new compositions. The pieces, performed by Sir Karl himself, are the first chance we have had to ...

The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House has opened applications for Overture, its year-long mentorship programme for musicians ...

The oldest form of musical theater is finding new life and conceivably a new audience via the iPod. The Los Angeles Opera’s initial podcasts have proven surprisingly popular, and the company has now ...

The Opera Guide – just updated in a new digital edition – features the world’s 100 most performed composers. With almost 20% of that number still writing today, its editor picks ten living composers ...

(Il) Guarany, Movements: Overture Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra Fabio Mechetti, Conductor Maria Tudor, Movements: Preludio Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra Fabio Mechetti, Conductor Condor, ...

He worshipped Shakespeare, and Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream is among the most perfect musical responses to any of his plays – so why did Mendelssohn never write a ...