The Romantic era gave birth to the virtuoso. Liszt was one of the greatest of his time, and wrote demanding piano music to show off his own brilliance. Chopin is also among the outstanding ...

Opera and ballet have long shared an intimate artistic relationship, with opera significantly influencing the evolution of ...

According to those that count such things, Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme is perennially in the top five of the “most produced” ...