No sex please, we’re German No sex please, we’re German

Why is so twinkling, tuneful a score so little known?

The queen’s throat The queen’s throat

“Trove Thursday ” presents Heinrich Marschner’s Hans Heiling in a 2001 performance from Berlin featuring Alessandra Marc as the title character’s mom, the Queen of the Elves. 

The last ruse of summer The last ruse of summer

Flotow’s Martha, a work of 1847 that was popular around the world for a hundred years.

One from the vault One from the vault

There has never been a successful vampire musical—so they say. But that’s just not true.

Mast media

I have been tossing and turning over La Cieca’s most recent assignment for me: a CD of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer based on a performance live in concert from November 13, 2010.  The anxiety mainly stems from the fact that, horror to say, I am no Wagnerite.  I know that sect of opera buffs has…