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Enoch zu Guttenberg conducts a concert of religious music that traverses a vast host of motley mass-related sentiments – but falls somewhat short of completing the course.

Every operatic ingredient was thrown into the pot for H.K. Gruber's Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), but do too many cooks spoil this operatic broth?

While there are jarring visual aspects to this production of Bizet's Carmen at the SemperOper, Dresden, this was an enjoyable performance which is a feast for the ears, if not the eyes.

Matthew Richard Martinez reviews San Diego Opera's season-closing production of Massenet's Don Quixote starring Ferruccio Furlanetto.

Mozart wrote 20 operas during his relatively short life, the first being performed in Salzburg in 1767, when the composer was just eleven years old. However, it is Idomeneo, written and premièred when Mozart was the ripe old age of 25, which is usually considered to be his first mature opera.The opera takes place on the island of Crete immediately after the Trojan War.

The second season of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal in the new Maison Symphonique was celebrated tonight with the performance of a singularly gargantuan work, Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

In einer rundum gelungene Aufführung der Teile I-III und VI wurden der RIAS Kammerchor und das Freiburger Barockorchester durch vier feinsinnge Solisten ergänzt.

Chanter parce qu’on croit à la liberté et qu’on veut affirmer sa valeur : le lendemain de l’attentat sur un marché de Noël à Berlin, le RIAS Kammerchor et le Freiburger Barockorchester souls la direction de Hans-Christoph Rademann ont dédié un magnifique concert à la mémoire des victimes.

L’Orchestre KlangVerwaltung et le chef Enoch zu Guttenberg, en compagnie du chœur Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern, proposaient vendredi dernier à la Maison symphonique de Montréal deux œuvres majeures du répertoire choral : le Magnificat de Bach et le Requiem de Mozart. Ce concert était présenté dans le cadre d’une tournée nord-américaine visant à souligner les 20 années d’existence de l’orchestre.