Seder play Seder play

A new DVD recording of La Juive boasts considerable musical strengths in spite of a frustrating production.

By April 12, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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An der geliebter ‘ferne’ An der geliebter ‘ferne’

Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, today’s Talk of the Town candidate for a Met revival, was presented on Trove Thursday four years ago in a broadcast starring Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart; so instead today Chris’s Cache offers Der ferne Klang.

By February 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Tomb raider Tomb raider

Despite the continued popularity of Der Freischütz in German-speaking countries, are the magical mature operas of Carl Maria von Weber otherwise really so problematic, their libretti so unwieldy to explain their continued absence from the world’s stages?

By July 28, 2014 at 3:10 PM
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