Praised by both Chopin and Goethe himself, the first Faust opera was not written by one of the author’s German composer peers. In fact, a Polish duke called Antoni Radziwiłł was the one brave enough ...

Hunger for power was a theme that transcended more than two centuries between Shakespeare, who wrote “Macbeth” in 1606, and Verdi, who composed his opera in 1847. Now, nearly two more ...