The evening will conclude with Samuel Barber's "Agnus Dei," also known as "Adagio for Strings." SMC music instructor Jeremiah Selvey will direct the performance at the venue located at 1310 11th ...

“Antony and Cleopatra” played a crucial role in the history of the Metropolitan Opera. In 1966, Samuel Barber’s new adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy opened the company’s Lincoln ...

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I think the first piece of classical music that I was sincerely moved by was “Agnus Dei” by Samuel Barber. It was an arrangement called the “Adagio for Strings” that he wrote. He put lyrics to the ...

Samuel Barber, who was already famous for his Adagio for Strings, composed the score. Gian Carlo Menotti, his partner and an experienced hand at opera, wrote the libretto and directed.

A stellar cast of singers lit up Samuel Barber’s masterfully grim tale of love and longing as part of the NSO’s “Opera in Concert” series.

Menotti wrote the libretto in intermittent stretches over an 18-month period (“At one point,” says Barber, “he left Anatol standing in a drafty doorway in deep winter for months”).

Today’s video of the day is a performance of the Agnus Dei from Missa Benevola by Benevoli and performed by I Fagiolini and The City of Musik, conducted by Robert Hollingworth. A Roman 17 th century ...

Welcome to Voices only, your regular dose of great a cappella. We got a reader/listener request from Paul Sparks, and it’s a good one. This is a rendition of “Agnes Dei” — not the version some of us ...

A new version of Adagio for Strings / Agnus Dei, the iconic Samuel Barber choral / classical piece that accompanies one of the best-known moments in the original Homeworld, also returns in moments ...