We hear a lot these days about new operas, but precious little about older operas from the relatively golden days of musical composition between the wars, operas that remain new to us because they ...

A great work by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) is like a blast of complicated sunshine. The composer, a scion of one of the most ancient and distinguished Jewish families of Provence, produced a brand of ...

Composer Darius Milhaud’s urge to giantism began 40 years ago, at a time when he was intriguing the world’s musical taste buds with a potage of polytonality sweetened by a dash of essence-of-jazz. His ...