Born on Venetian gondolas, the barcarolle carried its lilting rhythm into opera and piano works by Offenbach, Verdi, Chopin, and Fauré ...

When Jacques Offenbach began writing The Tales of Hoffmann, in 1877, he hoped the opera would boost his reputation to a whole new level. It did exactly that — but unfortunately, the composer never ...

One of the delights of an evening in is to sit down in front of the piano and pick out a tune. I was doing just that when Offenbach's Barcarolle sprang from the distant recesses of memory into lilting ...