Berthold Tours John Stainer. The works he edited included "Iphigenia in Aulis", "Iphigenia in Tauris" and "Orpheus" by Gluck; "L'Étoile du nord" by Meyerbeer; "Il seraglio" and "Zauberflöte" by Mozart; "Guillaume Tell" by Rossini; "Der Fliegender Holländer" and "Lohengrin" by Wagner; "Euryanthe" by Weber; Mendelssohn's "Elijah"; Gounod's "Mors et Vita" and "Redemption", numerous piano albums, and many others. He also arranged scores of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas for piano and voice. He was also a composer and composed a cantata for female voices called "The Home of Titania" (1893); an anthem entitled "A Festival Ode" (1893) for organ and soprano, which was
Il caso Mortara season. Il caso Mortara Il caso Mortara (The Mortara Case) is an opera in two acts composed by Francesco Cilluffo to an Italian-language libretto by the composer himself, inspired by "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" by David Kertzer. The opera was commissioned by the Dicapo Opera Theater, New York, and premiered in February 2010. It is the first Italian opera commissioned to an Italian composer by a New York opera company since the times of Giacomo Puccini at the Metropolitan Opera. "New York Times" critic Anthony Tommasini hailed it as one of the most important events of New York's 2010