FalstaffFalstaff was composed to a libretto fashioned by Arrigo Boito largely from Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor. Superficially the work is an opera buffa in it's depiction of the travails of the penniless knight, Sir John Falstaff, but goes beyond the operatic tradition of the time. The vocal line is integrated into the orchestral texture, and with self quotations and parodic elements, the opera is saturated with as much irony as comedy,

Troye Sivan's third studio album

a tavern where the vengeful hostess makes sure you don't check out

2002's Killing the Dragon 1LP on transparent yellow with black marble vinyl

such is the intensity and fragility of their sound and vision

" and expanding to political issues

" (British Council

'Anything that can be sung

Lead singer Tony Perfect mixes a Stonesey drawl with then contemporary garage rock stylings

" (Salzburger Nachrichten) The production was recorded live at the Wiener Staatsoper in June 2018

in advance of the Good Friday Vespers service of 1724

and Mario Van Peebles as the young Sweetback

KATHLEEN LONG (1896-1968) was a musician of the highest order