Mozart’s work list is littered with incomplete projects, from pieces that are regularly performed in their unfinished state, such as the C minor Mass and the Requiem, to works for which the surviving ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. There was once a time when opera and theater audiences couldn’t get ...

This production does finish the opera, with bits of other Mozart music used and English words by Michael Symmons Roberts (sung text) and Ben Power and Molly Still (spoken text) but in an unconvincing ...

The bare bones of Mozart’s unfinished opera Zaide comprise one glorious aria for the enslaved heroine – the aspirational “Ruhe sanft” – and an assortment of other numbers which might be considered ...

Mozart never finished “Zaide,” a music-theater piece with spoken dialogue. What has come down to us is a colorful, rather dark story about a sultan named Soliman, who loves his slave Zaide, who loves ...

In honor of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth, his music is being performed around the globe. A controversial new production of an unfinished opera Mozart wrote when he was 23, ...

Usually, when the words “unfinished” and “Mozart” appear in the same sentence, people are talking about the “Requiem” the composer was working on when he died. Wolf Trap Opera has provided a welcome ...

Ever controversial, radical American director Peter Sellars opened this performance with a half-hour talk on slavery in the 21st century, with help from representatives from two organisations that do ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter How do you complete an unfinished Mozart opera? Or perhaps the first question should be, "Why complete an unfinished Mozart opera?" ...

Several attempts have been made to edit a viable performing version of Mozart's Zaide, but the opera is a bore. Rating: * * Zaide consists of two acts of an opera which Mozart began on spec and then ...