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La Boheme - ''They meet, they fall in love, they split, she returns, she dies'' that's Rolando Villazn's ten-second plot summary of Puccinis La Bohme. And the obvious draw of Deutsche Grammophon's new recording of the work is its Mimi and Rodolfo, the aforementioned 'they'. But any opera recording is about more...

Der Tod Und Das Madchen - Musical history is peppered with stories of luke-warm or downright disastrous premieres of now-beloved works, from riots over Stravinsky's Rite of Spring to an under-rehearsed orchestra and over-stuffed programme for Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. The path to greatness rarely runs smoothly, it seems. So it was for Schubert's Der Tod und...

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