Baton Vocal

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. Due to his dramatic qualities the piece was also fitful for...

Karl Millöcker (1842-1899) was one of Johann Strauss II's greatest rivals in his lifetime, but his music is almost unknown in England. Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) is an operetta in three ac...

José Serrano's zarzuela La Canción del olvido was first performed in 1916 in Valencia and until now it belongs to one of the most succesful zarzueala's in history.La Canción del olvido has a Napoleoni...

Paganini was the first Lehár operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Paganini tells of the legenda...

Puccini's Opera Manon Lescaut is based on the 1731 novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. He used some musical elements in Manon Lescaut from earlier works h...

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) finished his masterpiece Otello in October 1885. The libretto by Arrigo Boito was based on Shakespeare's tragedy. The Bonfire Chorus is sung in the very first act: the peopl...

The zarzuela 'El barberillo de Lavapies' (1874) is the comic masterpiece of Spanish composer Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. It's a miracle of raw popular spirit, musical subtlety, ironic wit and political...

Carmen es probablemente la ópera más famosa de todo el repertorio operístico, aunque su estreno en 1875 fue una gran decepción. El estribillo "¡Vivat! Vivat le Torero!" se canta en el segundo acto de...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The choir 'Ein souper heut' uns winkt' is sung at very beginning of t...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The choir 'Ein souper heut' uns winkt' is sung at very beginning of t...

La Bohème was first performed in 1886 at the Teatro Regio in Turin. It soon became a staple of the operatic repertoire and has remained so ever since. Puccini had begun for the first time to speak wit...

Le Nozze di Figaro es una de las tres óperas que Mozart compuso sobre libretos de Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), famoso director de teatro y poeta vienés. El aria "Dove sono i bei momenti" se canta en...

Juana de Arco es una ópera en cuatro actos de Piotr Ilich Tschaikovski. Fue compuesta sobre un libreto ruso del compositor, basado en varias fuentes: 'La doncella de Orleans' de Friedrich Schiller, 'J...

Roméo et Juliette is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto based on "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare. The opera is notable for the series of four duets f...

Pikovaya dama es una ópera en tres actos de Piotr Ilich Tschaikowsky con libreto del hermano del compositor, Modest Tschaikowsky, basada en un cuento homónimo de Alexander Pushkin. El aria "Da, vspomn...

Il Pirata fue la tercera ópera de Bellini. "Il Pirata" es una ópera en dos actos con libreto italiano de Felice Romani a partir de una traducción francesa de la obra trágica "Bertram", o "El castillo...

Carmen es probablemente la ópera más famosa de todo el repertorio operístico, aunque su estreno en 1875 fue una gran decepción. El coro "Avec la garde montante" se canta en el primer acto: Un grupo de...

Una de las Canzone Napoletanas más famosas es "Torna a Surriento", escrita en 1902 por el compositor italiano Ernesto De Curtis (1875-1937) con letra de su hermano Giambattista. "Torna a Surriento" se...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

Zaide (originally, "Das Serail) is an unfinished opera written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. Only the arias and ensembles from the first two acts were composed. Missing are an overture and third...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which "Die Fledermaus" his best contribution to this genre is. The "Melodram" is sung by Frank, governor of the prison, at the very...