Camille Saint-Saëns, dont on commémore ce 16 décembre le centenaire de son décès, était un véritable globe-trotter. Selon Stéphane Leteuré, il a entrepris 179 voyages dans 27 pays de 1857 à 1921, et ...

It’s a great injustice that French composer Camille Saint-Saëns is most widely remembered for a mere handful of his hundreds of works. Ironically, the evergreen “Carnival of the Animals,” among the ...

“For hours after Jean-Philippe Collard had left Camille Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto a pile of shards on the Hollywood Bowl stage,” Alan Rich wrote in L.A. Weekly in the summer of 1999, “I racked ...

In February 2022, new to New York and seeking bleeding-edge culture, I found myself at a poetry reading at KGB, an Eastern Bloc-themed bar in the East Village. In 2018, Every house has a door director ...

Poor Saint-Saëns! He was blessed from childhood with a polished facility of utterance that made most of his fellow composers (Ravel excepted) seem like hysterical tyros by comparison. But somehow, ...

As far as single-disc compendiums of Camille Saint-Saëns' shorter orchestral works go, this new release on the Chandos label buries the competition. Neeme Järvi may have been 74 when he made these ...

He showed immense talent from a young age, playing pieces by Mozart and Beethoven from memory at the age of ten. He enjoyed a steady increase in popularity over the course of his career, punctuated by ...

It’s easy to forget the problems there might have been in bringing an opera such as Samson and Delilah to the stage. First, there were the various challenges of matching the composer and librettist.

Donald Macleod delves into the character and music of Camille Saint-Saëns This week’s episode begins with a look at Saint-Saëns the innovator, who introduced new-fangled ideas to an opera-loving ...