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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Larry Johnson reports the death of his friend, Marvin David Levy, whose opera Mourning Becomes Electra, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in its inaugural season at Lincoln Center in 1967. Read more here. -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Vladimir Jurowski has pulled out of this week’s Boston Symphony performances ‘because of a visa problem arising from a miscommunication with his management team. Make of that what you will. Jurowski’s management is the ... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from CLASSICAL ICONOCLASTSimon Rattle at the Barbican this week, conducting the Brerlin Philharmonic in all the Sibelius symphonies. Tickets sold out almost as soon as they went on sale. Luckily, the concerts will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 HERE HER...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Joshua KosmanA recent Adler Fellow now embarked on a promising operatic career, Johnson faces an obvious challenge as a recitalist. In “Die Lorelei,” Liszt’s fervid setting of Heine’s poetic narrative about the Rhine siren who lures sailors to their ...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Joshua KosmanAmong the various characters competing for space in E.M. Forster’s slim first novel, “Where Angels Fear to Tread,” the one nonhuman is Italy itself, whose charms are as seductive and elusive as anyone’s. Midway through the second act of ...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalVarious Composers, Sadler’s Wells/Hofesh Shechter Company/Tommy Franzén Productions, Sadler’s Wells, London, 6.2.2015 (J.O’D) Smile: Peformer and Choreographer: Tommy Franzén Director: Kate Prince Assistant Director and Assistant Chore...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukWhen she was 13, concentration camp prisoner Greta Klingsberg was thrilled to be cast as the lead in an opera – even though her audience were SS guards Continue reading...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalMozart, Bruckner: Paul Lewis (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor), Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, 8.2.2105 (AS) Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25 in C, K503 Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1889 ve...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalJ.S. Bach, Haydn, Rossini and Mozart: Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Firebird Orchestra, Jonathan Bloxham (conductor), King’s Place London, 8.2.2015 (CS) J.S. Bach: Air and Gavotte from Orchestral Suite No.3 in D BMV 1068 Haydn: Cello Concer...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Violinist.comBy Laurie Niles: "Do I have to be in my school orchestra? I'm way ahead of everyone else and I'm not going to get anything from it." That could have been me in high school, but it's something I've heard as a teacher, from students and pa...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Joshua KosmanGustavo Dudamel and the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra will spend five days in residence at Cal Performances in September as part of Berkeley Radical, a new initiative aimed at increasing artistic literacy among the public. Berkeley Ra...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Classical Life
Review: ‘Ghosts of Versailles’ debuts at L.A. Opera. Orange County Register, Feb. 9, 2015. photo: Craig Mathew -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from ArtsBeat » » Classical MusicThe Martin E. Segal Awards will be given to 11 rising artists this year, up from two in past years.
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsCongratulations to all our amazing #GRAMMYs winners @LudovicMorlot, @MaestroSpano, @AntoineTamestit, John Luther Adams & David Robertson!
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsCongratulations on your THREE #GRAMMYs @rosannecash! We're thrilled for you! #Americana #AmericanRoots @TheGRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/p2hqIQsIFO
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Swedish Radio reports that the Finnish conductor Hannu Koivula has been paid a million crowns ($119,000) over the past year, while not conducting a single concert in Jönköping. Koivula was dismissed last January after what are described ... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The prize is not huge – just 10,000 Euros and a date at the Schleswig Holstein festival, which gets to pick the winner. But the profile in Germany is priceless. Step forward Krzysztof Urbanski, Bernstein Award winner of 2015. Urban... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukContinue reading...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Dallas is starting an institute for females talents. See press release below. DALLAS, FEBRUARY 9, 2015 – Working to address a long-standing career issue in the opera world, The Dallas Operais delighted to announce the launch of a unique,... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsSad day... Salomon Prize is leaving me! Excited to find out who is next!! @aborchestras @RoyalPhilSoc pic.twitter.com/Xz4H1908gl
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Classics TodayIs there a work more agreeable among Mozart’s entire output than his C major quintet K. 515? Well, perhaps not, but the D major K. 593 would be a strong contender. Nor is there a work that’s stormier, more dramatic, spookier,...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Stanley Solomon served in the Canadian forces during the Second World War and played principal in the Toronto Symphony from 1949 to 1983. From 1966 on he also ran an orchestra of his own and managed a number of Canadian artists. &... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukMillennium Centre, Cardiff The WNO chorus takes centre-stage in this outlandish stitching together of 25 opera choruses from Bizet to Mussgorgsky Continue reading...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Seen and Heard InternationalCorigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles: LA Opera, James Conlon (conductor), Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 7.2.2015-1.3.2015 (JRo) Cast: Marie Antoinette: Patricia Racette Samira: Patti LuPone Beaumarchais: Christopher Maltman B...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical Music News Source
American violin virtuoso Hilary Hahn and piano […] The post Hilary Hahn Awarded Grammy Award for ’27 Encore Pieces’ Project appeared first on The Violin Channel | The World's Leading Violin, Strings & Classical... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
Lang Lang was working the room at the Grammys. We think the other guy’s a conductor. -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Sequenza21/
The two living American composers who share the name John Adams were the big winners at last night’s Grammy Awards. John Adams, of Nixon in China and Death of Klinghoffer fame, won the Best Orchestral Performance for the second ye... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukColin Matthews’s setting of Michael Morpurgo’s Pied Piper retelling was done full justice by the LPO and excellent choir of Deansfield primary school Continue reading...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukGilbert’s announcement means another key conducting job falls vacant. It’s getting to be something of a merry-go-round, all of the conductor top-trumps at the major orchestras. With high profile positions at, not least, the LSO and the B...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Peninsula Reviews
Having braved rain, intense winds, and a power outage that left the first half hour of the projected concert in the dark, a modest but extremely gratified audience heard a fine, balanced program by Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra at ... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
E. Randol Schoenberg (left) is an L. A. lawyer who specialises in the restitution of art works stolen by the Nazis. The grandson of an immortal composer, his greatest legal triumph – the recovery of a pillaged Klimt – is reto... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
The long-running debate about whether classical music appeals today to a broad enough section of the population was given fresh life last month with the opening of Paris’s new concert hall. As we have already reported, one of its key aim... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsClassical Music Alan Gilbert to leave NY Philharmonic in 2017 Classical Music Alan Gilbert is to leave the New York Philharmonic in 2017, after eight seasons as music director of the orchestra. The timing is in part dictated by the condu...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
The Korean TV channel MBC is about to screen a demolition documentary on Myung Whun Chung, music director of the Seoul Philharmonic. Chung is accused of ‘ethical violations’ a charge first raised by the orchestra’s disc... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukBarbican, London Ryan Wigglesworth juxtaposed his own compositions with Strauss, Schubert and Kagel to create an uneven evening Continue reading...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicLyapunov, Chin, Szymanowski, Kapustin; Clare Hammond: BIS Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Jan 30 2015 Star rating: 5.0 Extended brilliance in the dazzling exploration of the Etude in the 20th century The Etude (study) is particularly used b...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Slipped Disc
I found the performance by two Paris concertmasters – who happen to be sisters – simply irresistible. It’s my Album of the Week on sinfinimusic.com. But the way the two players describe each other in the accompanying bo... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Arts Desk Lewis, Philharmonia, Nelsons, Royal Festival Hall The Arts Desk The 25 th Piano Concerto is short on memorable melody, a problem exacerbated by Lewis's classical reserve and avoidance of lyrical indulgence (the pianist ...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets...& now on display in @schottmusic shop window! #MusicintheFrame @IdeasTap @chichinwanoku @bbcso @theoae @rpoonline pic.twitter.com/84soltkFMz
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Classical Music TweetsFAB pictures of musicians in action by #MusicintheFrame photographers (RPS + @IdeasTap project) Slideshow here: http://www.philharmonicsociety.uk/audiences_and_debate/music_in_the_frame …
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from CMUSE » CLASSICAL
One of the greatest films of the 20th century drew 5000 movie-goers in LA. Featuring a 61-piece orchestra performing the soundtrack during the film of The Godfather, Justin Freer conducted The Hollywood Studio Symphony to a sell out audi... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Classical Music Tweets#HappyBirthday Alban Berg, born #onthisday in 1885
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukWere you able to identify all - or even some - of ENO’s collage of the greatest cultural figures from the German-speaking world? Here’s who they all are Continue reading...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Independent Grammys 2015 winners: List in full The Independent Best Chamber Music /Small Ensemble: "In 27 Pieces – 'The Hilary Hahn Encores," Hilary Hahn and Cory Smythe. Best Classical Instrumental Solo: "Play,&qu...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Classical-Music.comRobin Tritschler and Malcolm Martineau perform a moving song from Bredon Hill and Other Songs George Butterworth is a composer who left behind a modest collection of works. A perfectionist who destroyed many of his compositions, he is kn...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Classical music - Google NewsThe Hans India Cleveland to host 12-day Indian classical music festival The Hans India Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, commended the Festival organizers, volunteers and the Cleveland area community for pi...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicThe 2015/16 season at the South Bank includes the first performances of the complete Ring Cycle in the Royal Festival Hall as Opera North brings its concert staging. Other operas include Berg's Wozzeck from Zurich Opera with Fabio Luisi ...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Planet Hugill - A world of classical musicThe Cardinall's Musick Psalms of David - Gabrieli, Palestrina, Victoria, Lassus, Allegri, Gibbons, Byrd, Tomkins, Weelkes; The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood; Cadogan Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on Feb 5 2015 Star rating: 4.0 Vibr...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Music: Classical music | guardian.co.ukElla Fitzgerald, Krystian Zimerman and, strictly in private, Cuban jazz - the singer tells us about her musical tastes on and off the concert platform Continue reading...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from British Classical Music: The Land of Lost ContentI recently came across a short booklet entitled William Yeates Hurlstone: Musician and Man by H.G. Newell (London, J. & W. Chester & Co. 1936. Inside the book was a small cutting from an unidentified magazine. A little research s...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Behind Ballet
Ballet Master Steven Heathcote was one of The Australian Ballet’s most beloved and longest-serving principal artists, and created the role of Prince Siegfried in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake. Now he is coaching a new generation of princes. ... -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from The latest articles from OperavoreABOARD EUROSTAR TRAIN #9018—I am writing this dispatch aboard a sleek quiet train speeding through the English countryside toward the Channel (or, as the French call it, La Manche —The Sleeve). As a frequent passenger on Amtrak, I can te...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Pointe MagazineYou're probably not too excited when you look out your studio's window and see dreary, grey weather (especially if you've been affected by this season's blizzards). But it may be a good opportunity to improve your dancing.
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from parterre box
La Cieca is sure that you will be as thrilled as Creative Consultant Renée Fleming over the 2015-2016 season at Lyric Opera of Chicago. -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Superconductor
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Superconductor
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from We left at the interval...La Monnaie, Brussels, Sunday February 8 2015 Conductor: Christophe Rousset. Production: Pierre Audi. Sets and Costumes: Patrick Kinmonth. Lighting: Matthew Richardson. Tamerlano: Christophe Dumaux. Bajazete: Jeremy Ovenden. Asteria: Soph...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from operatraveller
Bellini – Norma Pollione – Sergio Escobar Oroveso – Rubén Amoretti Norma – Daniela Schillaci Adalgisa – Sonia Ganassi Clotilde – Mireia Pintó Flavio – Vicenç Esteve Madrid Coro de […] -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsUn Ballo in Maschera by Verdi directed by Beatrice Carpino. Rehearsal photos (John Loper Photography) pic.twitter.com/jQWnHRk7YC
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsGreat to catch a bit of #ONBreve & #ONSchicchi rehearsals @GrandTheatreLS1 today! 2 operas, 1 extraordinary evening: http://www.operanorth.co.uk/productions/la-vida-breve-gianni-schicchi …
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet Tweets#OnThisDay we celebrate the birthdays of two great #sopranos Kathryn Grayson (1922-2010) and Hildegard Behrens (1937-2009)
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsOnly ONE hour until #Lyric1516 is announced! pic.twitter.com/2Pv7gXKdCS
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsSinging the praises of an opera maven: OperaBobb receives Spirit of #Opera award. blog: http://bit.ly/1IwNOzs
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Taminophile
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Joyce DiDonatoAs part of her Perspectives residency at Carnegie Hall and continued effort to engage youth through music education, Joyce DiDonato will present a series of three public master classes featuring four aspiring opera singers on February 21...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsDid you catch @lang_lang 's performance at last night's #GRAMMYs? Watch it here and see him live at Lyric May 9! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6iJHdukUfU …
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsSave the Date! Don't miss Karen Kain unveiling the 2015/16 season by video on February 10. pic.twitter.com/1oXogvU0wI
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet Tweets#ONFigaro's @Helen_Sherman @ShelleyConduct & @DrKMcK chatting w/ #ONU30 members! More photos: http://on.fb.me/172bJGt pic.twitter.com/HUZxnKoelL
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsSorcery, seduction & assassination swirl dramatically in this story of a woman who falls in <3 with the wrong person pic.twitter.com/rhotZz77vz
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsIf you're in Ottawa this week and are looking for something to do Thursday please check out this event at the... http://fb.me/4fk8TbrUE
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsDirector James Darrah spoke with KMTV's Morning Blend about Opera Omaha's new production and Nebraska premiere of... http://fb.me/20WfOVYby
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsWhich recently-released recordings would you recommend? Listen online to our top 3: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/recommended-recordings-february-2015 … #music ^C pic.twitter.com/14ftp0HDTI
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsInterview with @ColoradoBallet soloist Jesse Marks about "Fancy Free" - Part I: http://youtu.be/AUVM85bWzUg via @YouTube
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet TweetsThank you to @cibc for generously supporting the 25th anniversary of the First Steps Choreographic Competition pic.twitter.com/6cWo8KTFgn
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Top Opera & Ballet Tweets"If someone should ask if I've ever been to the opera,I look forward to saying, 'Only one...but I did see it twice.'" http://ow.ly/IKDWT
- The Sarasota Ballet Restructures Administrative Staff by Creating an Expanded Development DepartmentMonday, February 9, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from parterre box
My first experience with John Corigliano ’s music was in high school with the ear and mind blowing score he wrote for Ken Russell ’s film Altered States. -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Likely ImpossibilitiesOpera Philadelphia has made an admirable committment to commissioning and performing new opera. They have programmed two new works this season and are developing more for the future. One reason this is admirable is because it comes with ...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from parterre box
So, how well does Les Huguenots stand up in this, our modern world? -
Monday, February 9, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from LietoFineLondon
Review – The Mastersingers of Nuremberg (English National Opera, Saturday 7 February 2015) Hans Sachs – Iain Paterson Walther von Stolzing – Gwyn Hughes Jones Sixtus Beckmesser – Andrew Shore Veit Pogner – James Cresswell Eva Pogner – Ra...
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Monday, February 9, 2015 from Behind Ballet
Soloist Laura Tong made her debut as the Baroness von Rothbart in Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake on our recent US tour. She talks to us about dancing this beguiling villain. When did you first dance Graeme Murphy’s Swan Lake, and …... -
Sunday, February 8, 2015 from Eye Bags[Expecting those floor boards to spontaneously combust in 3, 2, 1,… – Delphine Galou as Andronico in Handel’s “Tamerlano” as staged by Pierre Audi, Brussels 2015. – Photo Credit: screencap by Lang] ...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsAs Britain's greatest living conductor comes back to London, Michael Henderson assesses the career of the former wunderkind from Liverpool
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from The Earworm
I spent part of yesterday listening to an “unofficial” recording of the concert version of Alcina that I heard last fall in New York. This was a different performance – I know this not because I have the auditory equivalent …...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from Opera: news reviews previews singers opera houses downloads CDs DVDsThis hugely entertaining staging of Wagner's comedy explodes with joy, says Rupert Christiansen
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from BarihunksCraig Verm and Sasha Cooke in Everest The Dallas Opera just wrapped up the world premier of composer Joby Talbot and librettist Gene Scheer's Everest at the Dallas Opera. The opera confronts the tragic events surrounding an ill-fat...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from Definitely the Opera
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from operatraveller
Verdi – il Trovatore Il Conte di Luna – Vitliy Bilyy Leonora – Anja Harteros Azucena – Anna Smirnova Manrico – Lee Yonghoon Ferrando – Goran Jurić Ines – Golda […] -
Sunday, February 8, 2015 from Eye Bags… The last two chapters of “The Goblet” – my lesbian version of “Tristan & Isolde” – have been uploaded to the Writing Desk, you can access them here and here respectively. More writing (one ...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from Opera CakeAfter the years of appalling mediocrity and catastrophic productions presented at the Paris Opera, the new artistic direction --lead by the formidable Stéphane Lissner -- is proposing a fantastic program for their first season (2015-2016...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from Opera TodayI wonder whether we need a new way of thinking - and talking - about operatic ‘revivals’. Perhaps the term is more meaningful when it comes to works that have been dead and buried for years, before being rediscovered by subsequent genera...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from parterre box
The program Anna Netrebko sang at Beaver Creek on Thursday included her first public performance of "Suicidio!" from La Gioconda . -
Sunday, February 8, 2015 from Boulezian
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from opera, innit?How cool is this thing?! It’s been on ze tube for aeons but I just ran into it (major randomness: whilst looking for a Serbate dei custodi screen shot for my previous post). I might have to change my Entfuhrung ringtone to this.
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Sunday, February 8, 2015 from parterre box
Even supermodels take a break from enjoying the opera now and again to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects. -
Sunday, February 8, 2015 from parterre box
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Saturday, February 7, 2015 from parterre box
Cocooned in an amiable production of Theo Morrison 's revised Oscar , David Daniels flew to new heights in the congenial title role. -
Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Definitely the Opera
Toronto Symphony Orchestra announced the 2015-16 season last week. A few highlights: Matthias Pintscher will make his TSO debut as conductor and composer on April 28, 30 2016. He will conduct his own work towards Osiris, and also Mahler’... -
Saturday, February 7, 2015 from Ballet News | Straight from the stage - bringing you ballet insights
