In French composer Gabriel Fauré’s “Requiem in D minor, Op. 48” the soprano aria “Pie Jesu” is the most famous and beloved movement of a long revered work. It offers comfort and an affirmation of ...

You can take the farm boy out of Kansas, but you can’t take Kansas out of the farm boy — even when he’s a principal soloist with the New York City Opera, based in Lincoln Center, with almost 1,500 ...

Markus Werba's love of Lieder (songs composed to German poetry), has had him likened to an extinct creature. Therefore the opera singer's "Liederabend" (Evening of Songs) at Tokyo's Suntory Hall could ...

What does an opera singer do on his night off from singing the title role in Massenet's WERTHER in a new production at the Metropolitan? If he's the charismatic wunder-tenor Jonas Kaufmann, he heads ...

(6) Lieder, Movements: No. 2, Ich wollt' ein Sträusslein binden (orch 1 Natalie Dessay, Soprano Richard Strauss, Composer Antonio Pappano, Conductor Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden (6) ...

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If you'd stumbled across its staging of Mahler's Five Rückert Lieder, you could have been forgiven for fearing you'd entered a bizarre fashion show. A magnificent Town Hall ballroom; a catwalk in ...

Joyce DiDonato rehearses 'Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen' with the Met Orchestra and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin in new footage from the 2025-26 season.