Le Convenienze Ed Inconvenienze TeatraliDescribed as 'a joyous romp' (Opera News), Donizetti's dramma giocoso shows us what can go wrong when the egos of the actors get in the way of putting on a good show. From the prima donna and the sub par lead tenor, to the seconda donna's boisterous mother (played by a bass singer) and all the characters in between, everyone is playing the diva whilst the director pulls his hair out in frustration, and questions of who will fund the production are

Jon Radford and engineer/producer Brook Sutton

On the present double CD

New York-based French-Swiss pianist Francois-Xavier Poizat provides a wealth of tone colors while exploiting the virtuosic capabilities of the piano to it's limits

The musicians

so it very much captures the spirit of the times

I'm not sure if the world will come back'

and efficient way to exercise

Denis Arcand's Les Invasions barbares

This moving portrait puts the spotlight on the well-known character actor

Enter the Ballet School of the Opéra national de Paris and follow the young students' dance lessons

With this final volume of their Tchaikovsky cycle

whose disassociation with the world is so severe that she seems to be fading away as the sentimental