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The Marriage of Figaro: Banned in France
Mariage de Figaro by Golovin“So it will never be performed?” said the queen. “Certainly not,” sai...
Fidelio: Beethoven’s Hymn to Freedom
Beethoven’s opera Fidelio, which dates from 1805, addresses issues which are just as important to...
The Marriage of Figaro and the Fall of the Aristocracy
Playbill for a performance of The Marriage of FigaroWhen Mozart wanted to make his name known to ...
The First Walpurgis Night
Walpurgis Night by Augustus E. JohnConcert music from before the twentieth century that sympathet...
Beethoven and Napoleon: Clash of the Titans
No one in Europe could be indifferent to Napoleon’s ascent. He was its greatest liberator or its ...
Wagner and Nazism
Bruckner and Bruckner, Tannhäuser Act III, undated set design (detail) Copyright: CC BY-SA 4.0The...
Bach’s Ode to Caffeine
Our modern picture of Johann Sebastian Bach is lopsided. He wrote both secular and religious voca...
Beaumarchais and “The Barber of Seville”
If people today have heard of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, it’s usually as the author o...
The political philosophy of Tolkien
Map of Middle Earth (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED)J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings presents several s...
The Politics of Music under Louis XIV
Louis XIV of France was a renowned patron of the arts. He provided extravagant royal funds for th...
Schiller’s Ode to Joy, and Beethoven’s
Allegory of Joy and Melancholy (detail) Abraham Janssens, 1628On December 24 and 25, 1989, Leonar...
Jane Austen and the Perks of Imperfection
After Jane Austen died, her brother Henry penned a "Biographical Notice of the Author" verging on...
The Green Knight: Romance isn’t Dead
David Lowery’s film adaptation of the 14th Century alliterative romance, Sir Gawain and the Green...