NEW YORK, NY - MAY 10: Atmosphere at The 68th Viennese Opera Ball, A Night Inspired By 'Aida' at The Plaza on May 10, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty ...

For most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers—Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman ...

These are wonderful performances. The Mandelring Quartet don’t overplay the savagery and shocks - their approach is lyrical, sane and effortlessly musical. They can deploy the big guns when necessary ...

The Vermont Philharmonic is celebrating Viennese-born Vermont composer Richard Stöhr next weekend, April 27 at the Chandler Center for the Arts and April 28 at the Barre Opera House, featuring ...

There are, of course, some Viennese who dislike opera—just as there are some who find Sachertorte unappetizing, the waltz old-fashioned and the Danube dismally dirty. But they belong to a special ...

After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music. By Robert D. McFadden Walter Arlen, a Viennese ...

A New Year musical tradition which began in Austria more than 85 years ago is celebrated in Morecambe this January.

Before fleeing Hitler and the Nazis, Richard Stöhr (1874-1967) was a prominent composer in Vienna where he taught for 35 years at the Vienna Conservatory. Arriving in the United States in 1939, he ...