Doris Soffel

Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiveness of which is appropriate for the occasion--and...

Kurekura : 1984.01.01
Icyamamare : 1.149

Live performance from the Schwetzinger Festspiele, 1987. At the age of 21, Italian composer Giacchino Rossini penned the masterful comic opera...

Kurekura : 1987.12.01
Icyamamare : 0.322

Kurekura : 2022.08.21
Icyamamare : 0.208

One of Modest Mussorgsky's great talents was his unique ability to transpose words, psychological states, and even physical movements, into music....

Kurekura : 2007.03.10
Icyamamare : 0.635

Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts this acclaimed staging of Paul Hindemith's ambitious opera of the goldsmith Cardillac, whom fortune seems to favor and...

Kurekura : 1985.12.01
Icyamamare : 0.68

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero...

Kurekura : 2017.11.15
Icyamamare : 1.45

Drama lyrique in five acts, after the play by Maruice Maeterlink

Kurekura : 2012.01.01
Icyamamare : 0.19

The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring-Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him...

Kurekura : 2013.09.02
Icyamamare : 0.863

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow....

Kurekura : 2012.08.28
Icyamamare : 0.273

Acclaimed German conductor Kurt Masur leads the Gewandhaus Orchestra and Chorus in this performance of Beethoven's marvelously sprawling Symphony no....

Kurekura : 1991.01.01
Icyamamare : 0.295

This highly acclaimed production of Strauss Salome from the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden is staged by German director Nikolaus Lenhoff. Starring Angela...

Kurekura : 2011.01.01
Icyamamare : 0.015

At first glance, Hofmannsthal's libretto ARABELLA is a comedy of mistaken identity which, had it been composed by Rossini, could have been a snappy...

Kurekura : 2023.03.23
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