The most widely recorded chamber orchestra in the world is the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Here's the Academy as it plays a little-known piece by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari — his Festa popolare — ...

Part of the reason, indeed, why German and American audiences apparently warmed to it so much before the First World War intervened was due to the way in which it ‘othered’ the southern Italians, ...

Streaming platforms for Wolf-Ferrari : The Cunning Widow (Teatro La Fenice di Venzia) haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online. 'Wolf-Ferrari : The ...

Based on a play by Carlo Goldoni (as were several of Wolf-Ferrari’s operas), I quatro rusteghi is a farce. Translated as ‘The Four Curmudgeons’ – or ‘The Four Old Gits’, to use modern slang – it’s ...

Wolf-Ferrari’s comic opera La vedova scaltra (The Cunning Widow), is among the works he based on plays by Goldoni. It matches closely the conventions of 18th-century opera buffa in its witty if ...