Sardanapalo to premiere in Germany after Cambridge academic translates and deciphers neglected sketchbook As soprano Joyce El-Khoury launches into a soaring F-major aria and the orchestra follows with ...
It isn’t often that a previously unknown opera by a major 19th-century composer comes to light. But such is the case with Franz Liszt’s unfinished “Sardanapalo,” based on a drama by Byron and given ...
The manuscript was discovered in an archive in Weimar by Cambridge University academic David Trippett more than 10 years ago. Much of its music was written in shorthand, only one act was completed and ...
A rare opera by Franz Liszt has been meticulously restored by a scholar, who described the work as unique in the history of music. The 19th-century Hungarian composer was prolific and won a feverish ...
On Thursday 24 November, Cairo Opera Orchestra conducted by Nayer Nagui will perform works by Franz Liszt To comemorate the great Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886), the Cairo Opera House ...
Musicologist David Trippet skilfully reconstructs a Liszt opera fragment, illustrating the composer’s fertile musical mind Received wisdom has been that Liszt wrote only one opera, and that it’s not ...
The Hungarian-German composer's unfinished opera Sardanapalo has been in the archive for more than a century - untouched and almost forgotten. This weekend, it will be brought to life in Weimar. "It ...
A primer on medieval chants, minimalist opera and everything in between. By Mitchell Kuga The conductor Susanna Mälkki led a program centered on Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, propelled by the soloist ...
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