We hear a lot these days about new operas, but precious little about older operas from the relatively golden days of musical composition between the wars, operas that remain new to us because they ...

Madeleine Milhaud, who has died aged 105, was the widow of the French composer Darius Milhaud, and an actor, librettist and treasured source of information for scholars of 20th-century French music.

Composer Darius Milhaud’s urge to giantism began 40 years ago, at a time when he was intriguing the world’s musical taste buds with a potage of polytonality sweetened by a dash of essence-of-jazz. His ...

Even those with no interest in classical music were aware, during summers of the ’50s and ’60s, of the presence in the wheelchair. The man’s size and immobility – the wide, aging round head with its ...

There was once a group of six prominent French composers who came to be called Les Six, or The Six. Together they composed the music for a balled called The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower. From that ...

Inaugurated 40 years ago by Darius Milhaud, the only Jewish cultural center in Aix-en-Provence is named after the famous composer and native son. At the time, it was built as a synagogue, yeshiva and ...

Though Aeschylus's triptych of tragedies has influenced opera composers from Wagner to Birtwistle, relatively few of them have been tempted to fashion a stage work of their own from the Oresteia plays ...

How to celebrate 100 years of collaboration between Hill Auditorium and the University Musical Society? Murder and revenge, of course! For one night only, three choirs, one orchestra and over 400 ...

Donald Macleod explores the globetrotting world of the 20th century French composer Darius Milhaud. A member of the influential group, Les Six, these days Milhaud is rather unfairly known through just ...

From a concert in New York, we hear music that began its life in the theater before finding a home in the concert hall. It's music Darius Milhaud wrote for a play by Jean Anouilh (ahn-wee) called The ...