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Italian poet and opera composer and librettist of Verdi's opera ''Otello'' (1842-1918)
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2024-03-28
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 22:25:01
Visiting Aucoin’s Underworld
[…] San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera Chicago, Berlin Staatsoper, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Real Madrid, to name a few, and countless concert halls. On his website (https://marksdoss.com/), you may find his biography, in which what immediately leaps to the eye is the artist's enormous versatility. In his case, calling himself a bass-baritone means exactly that he sings both pure baritone parts, such as Rigoletto, Nabucco, Rigoletto, Germont, and Alfio, and true bass roles, such as Méphistophélès in Faust, Boito’s Mefistofele, and Zaccaria in Nabucco. His repertoire is extensive, with over 100 roles to his credit, and ranges from baroque (e.g. Argante in Rinaldo, the bass part in The Messiah, etc.) to contemporary opera, such as “Eurydice” in Boston. The summer of 2023 saw the release of his latest album, “Welcome To My World” (Çedille Records), where, accompanied by pianist Ken Smith, he performs 21 selections dealing with several musical genres and spanning over […]
2024-02-06 07:24:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree in York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke
[…] bigger instrument than the violin, so that all the bravura elements had a more muscular quality which was very appealing, rendered brilliantly by Ridout.York Bowen was from the other place; rather than belonging to the coterie of English composers associated with Stanford at the Royal College of Music, Bowen studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Frederick Corder. Corder had studied in Cologne and spent a year in Milan (where he met Verdi and Boito). If Stanford was aligned to Brahms, then Corder veered more towards Liszt and Wagner. That said, York Bowen's Viola Sonata No. 1 is a work that seems to have Brahms in its antecedents, how could it not when Brahms' two clarinet sonatas had been issued in approved versions for viola (mainly at the behest of Brahms' publishers), thus rendering them some of the few major late-romantic pieces for viola. Bowen seems to have enjoyed writing […]
2023-11-20 11:00:57
On this day in 1907 bass Fyodor Chaliapin made his Met debut as Boito‘s Mefistofele
2023-05-10 01:18:00
[…] MattilaDonald Runnicles, conductor “Losing my mind” from Follies (Stephen Sondheim)Patricia RacettePatrick Summers, conductor “Ah, je veux vivre” from Roméo et Juliette (Charles Gounod)Adela ZahariaEun Sun Kim, conductor “Ombra mai fu” from Xerxes (George Frideric Handel)Susan GrahamPatrick Summers, conductor “Prosti, nebesnoye sozdanye” from Pique Dame (Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)Brandon JovanovichDonald Runnicles, conductor “Là ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)Heidi Stober and Christian Van HornEun Sun Kim, conductor “Cessa di più resistere” from Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini)Lawrence BrownleeSan Francisco Opera ChorusPatrick Summers, conductor Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (Richard Wagner)Nina StemmeDonald Runnicles, conductor “Ave Signor” from Mefistofele (Arrigo Boito)San Francisco Opera ChorusEun Sun Kim, Chorus The concert is approximately three hours, including one intermission.
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