Jordi Savall offers us a musical biography of Charles Quint, the most powerful monarch of the 16th century, through court music, religious music and also popular songs which, five centuries after their invention, are still familiar to us.

From his first opera, Verdi was hailed by the critics.  With Nabucco he was praised to the skies, and the thirteen other operas he wrote in twelve years were equally successful.  For the bicentenar