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 ...

Once again Sarasota Opera will produce a rarely heard work by a major composer when Joseph Haydn’s Deceit Outwitted (L’infedeltà delusa) opens, the last work in the company’s 2024 Winter Opera ...

Even before the first notes air, a reconstructed Haydn opera in its U.S. premiere carries at least as much curiosity as it does clout. Yet when Opera at Rutgers in collaboration with Musica Raritana — ...

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 ...

Puppet theater was popular during the 18th century. Patrons espoused it, fine composers and writers created for it, the populace came to see it. Haydn's patron, Prince Esterhazy, was no exception, and ...

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 ...

Much as I revere him as a composer of symphonies and string quartets, Haydn has always seemed to me a total non-starter as an opera composer. A great part of the problem is, of course, the more ...

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 ...