Noted English critic Neville Cardus, not one to mince words, said this about Mozart’s The Magic Flute: “The opera is the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God.” Even ...

It’s probably been played almost as many times as there have been weddings. Because it's usually used to accompany the newly married couple as they walk away from the altar and out of the church, it’s ...

Take a quick look at the latest fiction bestseller list, and you'll find a familiar author topping the charts. It's Dan Brown with his latest blockbuster novel, The Lost Symbol — a grimly portentous ...

A new production, in English, of 'The Magic Flute' places Viennese farce in an ancient desert setting and mixes the zany with… A new production, in English, of 'The Magic Flute' places Viennese farce ...

Mozart composed his great liturgical torso, the C-Minor Mass, as an act of thanksgiving for his marriage to Constanze Weber, who sang the important soprano solos in the first performance in 1783.

But thanks to my friend John Dingley, I found myself seated in the Triune Masonic Temple in St. Paul, where concert pianist Roderick Phipps-Kettlewell’s Bösendorfer grand piano lives under a symbolic ...

Scottish Rite Masonic Temple in the historic Lummus Park neighborhood on the edge of downtown Miami was the appropriate venue for Orchestra Miami’s “Masonic Mozart” program on Sunday afternoon. The ...

Perform classical songs with a fortepiano and the listener is transported back to the aristocratic salons of that era. Tenor Mark Padmore and Kristian Bezuidenhout, a period-instrument specialist, ...

In this episode Cliff Eisen explores Mozart's Masonic links in Vienna, and the relationship between the Masons and Emperor Joseph II. The object, a Masonic Journal. Show more In this episode Cliff ...

As the solemn and harmonic music of Mozart’s Masonic Funeral Music came to an end, there was utter silence in Boston’s Symphony Hall. You could hear a pin drop. And then, from somewhere in the ...

What to call it: The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness? That was probably the least of Mozart’s concerns when he sat down to write this comic opera score in 1786. One of his main concerns had ...