Kultur und Musik des 6. bis 16. Jahrhunderts in Europa lebten auch von frühen globalen Einflüssen – etwa aus dem arabischen Raum, durch Kolonialisierung und interkontinentalen Handel. Cristina Urchueguía und Britta Sweers kombinieren ...

The episode about Armida from Torquato Tasso’s epic poem “La Gerusalemme liberata” (1575) has been one of the most popular opera subjects since the 17th century, inspiring numerous composers including Lully, Haydn, Rossini and Dvorák ...

The Indian king Poros offers fierce resistance during Alexander the Great's conquest of India in 327 BC. When the defence threatens to fail, his lover Cleofide decides to use her beauty to ensnare Alexander and to save Poros.

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“Berenice, Regina d’Egitto” HWV 38 was the last of three operas Handel newly composed for the 1736/37 season at the Royal Theatre in Covent Garden. A month before the planned premiere, the composer suffered a stroke that left his right arm ...

This study score of Antonín Dvorák’s penultimate and most well-known opera “Rusalka” (1900) corresponds to the new critical edition published in 2023 that brings the musical text of the opera up to today’s standards. Editors Robert ...

Ševcík's opus 3 which concentrates mainly on the use of the bouncing bow in violin playing, builds on the systematic development of bowing technique which the composer had already focused on in his previous opus 2 – School of Bowing ...

The only concerto for violoncello and orchestra by Josef Myslivecek (1737–1781) was composed around 1770. It is most likely Myslivecek's own arrangement of his Violin Concerto No. 2, which he probably wrote for the cellist Antonio Vandini, ...

Drawing on the definitive scholarly-critical edition by Hendrik Schulze et al., the renowned conductor, harpsichordist and organist Jörg Halubek has joined forces with students from the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart ...