Many people went to look at her nakedness in Thaïs, to watch her lascivious dancing in Salome. But Mary Garden drew as many operagoers with the emotion in her voice as she did with the perfection of ...
The Belceas have been firmly in the vanguard of the international chamber music scene since the millennium, and for this eagerly anticipated new recording, they revisit Debussy ’s Quartet (which ...
To France’s Claude Debussy, Germany’s Richard Wagner was “that old poisoner” of the pure wells of music. In the 1890’s, fuming at the “grandiloquent hysteria” of the Wagnerian heroes—and calling his ...