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2023-09-26 07:06:00
A Lady and her Reputation: with modern recordings of Smyth's major works in the catalogue, we now need to put her work into a proper context
The 1922 founding of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) in Salzburg, showing Smyth and Arthur Bliss alongside such luminaries as Hindemith, Egon Wellesz and Webern. A work by Smyth would be included in the performance days the accompanied the event (see the ISCM website for more details)Ethel Smyth wrote six operas, Fantasio (premiered at the Hoftheater, Weimar in 1898), Der Wald (premiered at the Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin in 1902), The Wreckers (premiered at the Neues Theater, Leipzig in 1906), The Boatswain's Mate (premiered in London in 1916), Fête galante (premiered in Birmingham in 1923) and Entente Cordiale (premiered in Bristol in 1925), along with two major choral works, the Mass (premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in 1893) and The Prison (premiered at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh in 1931).All these received major performances during her lifetime, mainly thanks to the composer's own indefatigable energies. After writing a new work, she would set to and stomp around Europe encouraging people to perform […]
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2023-06-26 17:58:18
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2023-06-12 20:46:00
Leipzig Opera. Handel's Giulio Cesare. June 11, 2023.
Leipzig Oper. Opernhaus Saal, Leipzig. Parkett links (Row 14-33, 56 euros).Selfie taken at intermission. We have know David and Vivian since our Cornell days in the 1970s.Story. See previous post.Ruben Dubrovsky - Conductor. Giulio Cesare - Yuriy Mynenko, Cornelia - Ulrike Schneider, Sesto - Kathrin Goring, Cleopetra - Olga Jelinkova, Tolomeo - Remy Bres, Achilla - Franz Xavier Schlecht/Matthias Hoffmann.While Bach Fest continues in Leipzig, Handel Festival is happening in the nearby town of Halle. Tonight's opera was also part of the Handel Festival. We enjoyed very much our encounter with the opera about 10 years ago at the Met, so were looking forward to this event.Unfortunately the performance didn't have English surtitles, and despite having read the synopsis, having seen the opera before, and having David explain to us the plot, we were quite lost during the close-to-three hours of music and acting. Things on stage do not unfold […]
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