Early operas tell the story of Greek drama and were sung in Italian. Italian dominated the musical form until the 18th Century. By this time composers across Europe, such as Henry Purcell ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra recorded the symphonies of the early-twentieth-century Black composer Florence Price. The National Symphony did the same for the modernist George Walker. The Metropolitan ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1996, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

Verdi's early operas, such as Nabucco, were hymns to national independence. This may have made items like the Chorus of Hebrew Slaves especially popular with Welsh choirs! Today the situation has ...