Baton Vocal

George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of thos...

The first act of Puccini's Opera Tosca is set in a church where Cavaradossi, working on a Madonna, compares the mysterious harmony (recondita armonia) that excists between his dark-haired lover Tosca...

The first act of Puccini's Opera Tosca is set in a church where Cavaradossi, working on a Madonna, compares the mysterious harmony (recondita armonia) that excists between his dark-haired lover Tosca...

Jago's Credo from Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Otello, is sung at the beginning of the second act: a venomous expression of evil and, so to speak, of negative belief. He sings his creed: 'I believe in a cru...

Jago's Credo from Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Otello, is sung at the beginning of the second act: a venomous expression of evil and, so to speak, of negative belief. He sings his creed: 'I believe in a cru...

(Choir and Concert Band)

(Choir and Concert Band)

Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera Il Trovatore lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the 'Miserere' which is placed in the fourth and final act. A chorus of monks begins chanting a...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera Il Trovatore lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the the 'Miserere' wich is placed in the fourth and final act. A chorus of monks begin...

Dvorak composed the great Czech national opera, Rusalka in a single burst of inspiration between April 21 and November 27, 1901, to a text by Jaroslav Kvapil based on Hans Christian Andersen. Rusalka...

Dvorak composed the great Czech national opera, Rusalka in a single burst of inspiration between April 21 and November 27, 1901, to a text by Jaroslav Kvapil based on Hans Christian Andersen. Rusalka...

In 1883, a singer named Johanna Richter made a guest appearance in the court theater at Cassel, Germany, where Gustav Mahler was the conductor. As a result of this engagement she entered into a regula...

In 1883, a singer named Johanna Richter made a guest appearance in the court theater at Cassel, Germany, where Gustav Mahler was the conductor. As a result of this engagement she entered into a regula...

Leo Delibes opera Lakme was first performed in 1883, the year after Richard Wagner's Parsifal, but it comes from an entirely different world. It is a thoroughly conservative opera, constructed from se...

Leo Delibes opera Lakme was first performed in 1883, the year after Richard Wagner's Parsifal, but it comes from an entirely different world. It is a thoroughly conservative opera, constructed from se...

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...

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...

The African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin composed his opera Treemonisha in 1910 but it was not performed in its entirety until 1970, when the piano score was rediscovered. The music of Treem...

(Soprano, Choir and Concert Band)

(Soprano, Choir and Concert Band)

Faust is based on the novel Faust und Margarethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the libretto was conceived by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre.It's the story of the old Dr. Faust who once again wants...

Faust is based on the novel Faust und Margarethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the libretto was conceived by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre.It's the story of the old Dr. Faust who once again wants...

If we say that zarzuela is Spanish light opera with spoken dialogue we shall be near the mark. Frederico Chueca composed many Zarzuela's. The aria Schotis del Eliseo madrileno is from his zarzuela La...

If we say that zarzuela is Spanish light opera with spoken dialogue we shall be near the mark. Frederico Chueca composed many Zarzuela's. The aria Schotis del Eliseo madrileno is from his zarzuela La...

If we say that zarzuela is Spanish light opera with spoken dialogue we shall be near the mark. Geronimo Gimeniz is a Sevillan composer of many Zarzuela's. The short temperamental aria Zapatuedo is fro...