You're not too likely to encounter the music of Auber in today's opera houses and concert halls. Well, not in this country, although a few months back Belgium's Royal Wallonie Opera resuscitated his ...

Riccardo Chailly has had a recording contract with Decca for 30 years, which has followed him through his association with four orchestras. It began with the Berlin Radio Symphony in the 1980s, then ...

From the Marriage of Figaro to Carmen, here are ten of the most memorable musical beginnings to operas. The lights in the theatre dim and a hush falls over the buzzing excitement of the audience, as ...

Stephen Sondheim, Broadway's greatest living composer, is enjoying a renewed appraisal of his works: currently represented on Broadway by "Assassins" and soon to be joined by major revivals of "A ...