[ noun ] (Greek mythology) the Muse of lyric and love poetry <noun.person>
Erato \Er"a*to\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to love.] (Class. Myth.) The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.
Fortunately, he's also a pretty fair conductor, as his new recording of Tchaikovsky's opera "Yolanta" on Erato attests.
La Boheme (Erato): This reproduces the soundtrack for a new film featuring the voice of Jose Carreras and the body of Luca Canonici, who took over when the Spanish tenor collapsed last summer, suffering from leukemia.
Known as a rigorous musicologist and an inspired performer, Ross recorded 555 sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti on 34 compact discs, which an Erato spokesman said was the world's biggest set of compact disc recordings.