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2022-03-26 09:34:34
From Melissa to Musetta: I chat to Irish soprano Anna Devin about the joy of singing with Irish National Opera, returning to Puccini, having a Donizetti moment and her love of Baroque opera
[…] singer with a rich, middle voice. Also, Puccini is one of Anna's favourite composers to listen to and she feels that singing music you love is the best, in brings out the sensitivity in you. On 5 June 2022, Irish National Opera's new production of Donizetti's Maria Stuarda debuts at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, directed by Tom Creed, conducted by Fergus Sheil with Tara Erraught in the title role, Anna Devin as Elisabetta and Arthur Espiritu as Leicester. And when we speak, the role of Elisabetta was sitting on Anna's piano where she has been busy learning it. The idea to sing the role was, again, Fergus Sheil's as he wanted to do an opera that featured Anna together with Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught as part of his desire to cast Irish singers in roles. It will not be the first Donizetti that Anna has sung and she decided to […]
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2017-05-04 19:01:11
Dudamel to Venezuela: It is time to listen to the people. Enough is enough.
The conductor has issued his strongest statement yet in the wake of continuing violence in Venezuela, violence that has now claimed the life of a young El Sistema musician. Gustavo Dudamel makes it clear that his words are aimed at the Maduro government. And he puts the name of the murdered Sistema player at the head of his post . Here’s what he says: ‘My entire life has been devoted to music and art as a way of transforming societies. I raise my voice against violence. I raise my voice against any form of repression. Nothing justifies bloodshed. We must stop ignoring the just cry of the people suffocated by an intolerable crisis. Extreme confrontation and polarization cannot seize common conscience and peace, constituting borders and barriers to understanding and peaceful and democratic coexistence. Historically the Venezuelans have been a fighting people but never […]
2015-07-27 01:00:00
Music on Harp or Citer [6 CDs]
La Harpe Royale - Froberger, Corbetta, Couperin et al Andrew Lawrence-King - Baroque Harp Italian Concerto - Vivaldi, Bach, Handel The Harp Consort - Andrew Lawrence-King Masterworks for Harp - Rösler-Rosetti, Spohr et al Astrid von Brück - Harp 20th Century Harp Sonatas - Houdy, Flagello et al Sarah Schuster Ericsson - Harp Fantasies & Impromptus - Pierné, Saint-Saens et al Lavinia Meijer - Harp [Flac & scans] Francesco Corbetta (1615-1681)Fantasie caprice de chaconneLouis Couperin (1626-1661)Le Caprice Royal, Prelude, PassacailleWorks of Francois Couperin, Robert de Visée,Johann Jacob Froberger Andrew Lawrence-King - Baroque harpLabel: DHM 05472 77371 2Recorded January 1996 If you cannot see the audio controls, listen/download the audio file here[Flac & scans]Download Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Concerto Opus 3 No 8 Concerto nach italienischen gusto (after J.S. Bach) Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738) Carolan's Concerto Concertos of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel The Harp Consort Andrew Lawrence-King […]
2014-11-01 21:10:04
[…] harmony-driven cumbia/bolero/retro Mexican harmony band Las Rubias del Norte at 10 at Barbes 11/15, 7:30 sharp, experimental shamisen improviser Yumiko Tanaka creates a live soundtrack to Teinosuke Kinugasa’s legendary, hallucinatory 1928 avant garde silent film Crossroads at the Japan Society, 333 E 47th St., $15/$12 stud/srs 11/15, 8 PM newgrass jams with the Yonder Mountain String Band at Brooklyn Bowl, $27.50 adv tix rec. 11/15, 8 PM classic flamenco with Felah Menguz and Espiritu Gitano at Roulette, $20. 11/15, 8 PM NY Polyphony sing Spanish choral works by Spanish liturgical music by Morales, Guerrero and Victoria at Church of St. Mary the Virgin (145 W. 46th St), $35/$21 stud 11/15, 8 PM the NY Virtuoso Singer s sing works by emerging composers Eleanor Bragg, Phillip Golub, Andrew Hsu, Tengku Irfan, Sidarth Jayadev, Molly Joyce, Michael Parsons, Gabriella Smith, Conrad Tao and Jonas Tarm at Merkin Concert Hall, $25/$20 […]