The Synod on the Family and the Opera
Cardinal Burke is coming to Vienna this week at the invitation of Una Voce Austria. On account of the recent Synod on the family they have organized a presentation of a volume on the family to which...
View ArticleCardinal Burke’s Visit
On Tuesday in Vienna Cardinal Burke presented the German Translation of a book on the family to which he had contributed. I moderated a panel discussion with him video and audio of which is now online....
View ArticleA Review of Die Taubenwirtin
On November 9th was the long-awaited premier of Eric Peters’s opera Die Taubenwirtin in the Kreuzherrenpalais in Vienna. It was so brilliant that I went again on the 11th. Eric Peters’s achievement is...
View ArticleFerdinand Rebay
The Austrian composer Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953) had been a choir-boy here in Heiligenkreuz, and after his death a great many manuscripts of his compositions were entrusted to our music archive. My...
View ArticleClips from Die Taubenwirtin
The video above gives a taste of Die Taubenwirtin, which will be playing again at the end of January.
View ArticleSacred Music and Secular Culture
March 5th was the 50th anniversary of the promulgation of the instruction Musicam Sacram. To mark the occasion, Pope Francis gave a speech to an international conference on sacred music. In his speech...
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