L'ange de NisidaGaetano Donizetti's L'Ange de Nisida was commissioned by the director of the Thtre de la Renaissance in Paris. The libretto was entrusted to Gustave Vaz and Alphonse Royer, and the opra en quatre parties was completed in 1840. Unfortunately the theatre went bankrupt and the opera never reached the stage. Donizetti was aware that other venues would have rejected his work as it stood, for both repertoire and censorship reasons (the plot revolved around

The national pastime

The palette also looks decently fresh and vivid

The theme of the third piece is a Hindu melody

"(Rachmaninov) later recalled the 'massive architecture and mystic message of the painting made a marked impression on me'

D'Oustrac/ Jourdan - Invitation Au Voyage-Songs By Duparc Debussy

The singers are excellently cast especially Julian Hubbard as Parsifal "who was a sensation" (neue musikzeitung)

unfurling across the listener

We are family of worshippers from around the world

there's no shortage of fantastic work from the country diva

These are the facts as we know them

Strauss/ Marriner - Richard Strauss: Don Juan

intertextualizing with old Romanian folk ballads