Franz Schubert was a prolific composer, perhaps best known for his symphonies and chamber music, but he also turned his hand to Romantic opera. Despite having no experience of seeing his theatrical w

"There proves to be scarcely an inferior page in the whole work [...] and much of the writing is absolutely delicious." (Gramophone) So strongly associated with Otto Nicolai is Die lustigen Weiber

Johann Sebastian Bach, hero of the Baroque, has many masterpieces to his name. Among them is the Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV248, also known as the Christmas Oratorio. The work was written in 1734 to be