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2024-04-19 10:31:18
Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterOpera Rara joined with The Hallé under Sir Mark Elder for this semi-staged performance of the original version of Verdi’s operaTwenty-five years separate the action in the prologue and first act of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, and very nearly the same stretch of time elapsed between the opera’s first incarnation – whose opening night in 1857 the composer wrote off, a touch unjustly, as a “fiasco” – and its revised second version, premiered in 1881. The latter has more or less kept a foothold in the standard repertory ever since; but it’s the 1857 original, which Opera Rara, those tireless travellers of opera’s byways and branch lines, have polished up in a brand new edition for a studio recording and this concert performance at Bridgewater Hall.Contours of plot and libretto remain largely intact. The famous Council Chamber scene is the most keenly felt absence – the town square confrontation, […]
2024-04-07 13:21:26
Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterThe Hallé’s playing was triumphant as Thomas Adès oversaw a challenging programme including a rare Tippett masterpiece and new work from Oliver Leith, while the conductor’s own piece was an immense statement
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-16 18:59:43
Friday afternoon’s BSO subscription concert, one of the most interesting musical events I have attended in many months, centered on a commissioned work and also contained a fine cohort of less-often-heard masterpieces, masterfully directed by a visiting expert, Sir Mark Elder, director of the Hallé Orchestra of Manchester. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-03-14 16:30:24
Staatskapelle Halle/Bollon(Naxos)Four harps, a wind machine and a heckelphone feature on this little known score for an abandoned Nijinsky ballet. Ballet music is not something
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