Haydn wrote 15 operas. Thanks to English Touring Opera, there’s a rare opportunity to see one of them this autumn. Haydn the opera composer. Really? The story of the symphony is unthinkable without ...

Most of Haydn's two dozen or so operas are deemed untheatrical and rarely performed, while about half of Puccini's dozen are among the greatest hits of all time. These composers would seem to make ...

The Peabody Opera Theatre gave a spirited presentation of “La Fedelta Premiata” on Friday, and should be commended for giving Baltimore a rare opportunity to experience this example of the neglected ...

In 1958, rummaging through the Hungarian National Library in Budapest, a young U.S. musicologist named H. C. Robbins Landon unearthed a treasure-trove of eight operas by Franz Joseph Haydn. The scores ...

‘Papa’s’ operas are rife with subtext about Hapsburg-era Vienna and anti-Semitism University of Toronto music historian Caryl Clark shocked her audience into silence when she spoke at a conference ...

Composer anniversaries are a good reason to explore less obvious repertoire, and here Haydn’s operas are in the spotlight. He didn’t have a Mozartian gift for tightly paced drama, but the individual ...

After a season of dark and tragic stories, the Sarasota Opera closes with much lighter fare that will be new to just about everyone. Joseph Haydn’s “Deceit Unwitted” (or “L’infedelta delusa”) had its ...

The complete but rarely performed operas of Franz Joseph Haydn are to be showcased in an unprecedented concert in London. Arias from all the 16 surviving operas will be performed by the Classical ...

The Austrian composer's operas have long been accused of lousy drama and lacking tunes – how unfair, says John Allison Brave: 'Life on the Moon' performed by English Touring Opera . Credit: Photo: ...