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Kurt Weill unleashed his entire musical and dramatic arsenal in this astonishing and decadent opera, which he wrote in his early twenties. The action is set in a fictional American city, but it's reminiscent of Weimar, Germany.

Rossini's take on Cinderella is one of his most comic operas, but it has serious moments. Kate Aldrich sings Cinderella, and Lawrence Brownlee is the prince in a production from the Rossini opera Festival in Pesaro, Italy.

From José James to Billy Harper to Melanie Charles, Philly's jazz calendar is heating up. Learn more in Moment's Notice, our weekly guide to the scene.

The beloved singer and interpreter of pop standards won 20 Grammy awards over a career that touched eight decades.

A young woman's habit of sleepwalking leads to troublesome consequences. But Bellini's light-handed approach is the perfect complement to the inspired purity of his melodic style.

Rossini's tragic retelling of Shakespeare's classic seldom gets its due in today's theaters. Otello may have been eclipsed not just by Verdi's version of the story decades later, but also by two of Rossini's own works which premiered about the same time: The Barber of Seville and La Cenerentola.

Gluck's operatic reforms emphasized simpler, more straightforward musical forms which served to heighten the drama, especially in 'Iphigenia in Aulis.' It's the classic story of a young woman whose father summons her for a wedding, but instead offers her up as a human sacrifice.

The composer's only opera follows a young wife whose loyalty and faith are put to the test. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth, the performance comes from the historic Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the city where the opera debuted in 1850.

Wherein a young Provencal woman falls for a man far below her station, with tragic results.

Though often pegged as a composer of comic operas only, many of Rossini's finest achievements can be found in his series of nine serious dramas, the last of which was the dark, pioneering opera Zelmira.