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French opera singer (1796-1874)
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2022-08-03 08:46:00
Black, el Payaso: Pablo Sorozábal's engaging operetta gets its UK premiere in an enterprising production by Cervantes Theatre at Grimeborn
[…] 1936 zarzuela La tabernera del puerto) which was sung by Placido Domingo at the Three Tenors concert!There was a rare chance to hear Sorozábal's work in London when the Cervantes Theatre presented the UK premiere of Sorozábal's Black, el Payaso (Black, the Clown) at Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival (seen 2 August 2022). Paula Paz directed with Michael Lafferty as Black, Raphaela Papadakis as Sofia, Giuseppe Pellingra as White, Juliet Wallace as Catalina, David Powton as Marat and Charles Dupont, and Simon Bundock as the child. Sets and costumes were by Caitlin Abbott with lighting by Lucia Sanchez. Ricardo Gosalbo was the music director and had made the musical arrangement whereby accompaniment was provided by him on piano and Elena Jauregui on violin, percussion and, at one point, toy trumpet. The libretto was adapted by Ignacio Garcia and translated by Simon Breden. The work was presented with English dialogue and sung Spanish.Anyone expecting a […]
2021-01-26 08:26:56
K: Brazilian conductor Simone Menezes and her new ensemble in Borodin, Debussy, Copland, Villa-Lobos and Lacaze
[…] hope they might think about exploring some of Percy Grainger's large scale room music! Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (1833-1887), arr. Vincent Paulet - Polovtsian Dances (1869-1887) [12'37]Claude Debussy (1862–1918), arr. Benno Sachs - Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune (1894) [9'53]Aaron Copland (1900-1990) - Appalachian Spring (1944) [25'46]Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), arr. Gustavo de Sà - Choros No. 5 (1925) [4'48]Sophie Lacaze (born 1963) - Histoire sans paroles, trio for violin, cello and piano (2002) [8'53]Ensemble K (Nicolas Dupont, Manon Galy - violin, Clément Holvoet - viola, Kacper Nowak - cello, Adrien Tyberghein - double-bass, Mara Dobresco - piano, Daniela Mars/Ludivine Moreau - flute, Anne-Marie Gay - oboe, Christian Laborie - clarinet, Jules Postel - bassoon, Gabriel Potier - french horn, Florian Delporte - accordion)Simone Menezes (music director) Recorded 6 to 9 July 2020 at the auditorium of the Conservatoire de TourcoingAPARTE AP243 1CD [61:43] Available from Amazon, and from Hive. The blog […]
2019-10-27 23:49:00
Music Kitchen "Forgotten Voices" #9 Featuring Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's "Music Kitchen Interplay"
[…] by the nation’s top orchestras. Zwilich is the recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in Music (the first woman ever to receive this coveted award), the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Chamber Music Prize, the Arturo Toscanini Music Critics Award, the Ernst von Dohnányi Citation, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Grammy nominations, the Alfred I. Dupont Award, Miami Performing Arts Center Award, the Medaglia d'oro in the G.B. Viotti Competition, and the NPR and WNYC Gotham Award for her contributions to the musical life of New York City. Among other distinctions, Ms. Zwilich has been elected to the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and […]
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2019-01-15 14:03:54
After His Anti-Gay Instagram Post, Sergei Polunin Gets Dropped By Paris Opera Ballet
It was only last Thursday that the company announced that Polunin would be making a guest appearance as Siegfried in Swan Lake. Saturday, artistic director Aurélie Dupont announced that he wouldn’t be appearing after all, because of certain “public statements … [that] didn’t correspond to her values or to those of the institution she represents.” […]
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