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Irish composer, music critic; (1855-1922)
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2023-11-20 00:56:00
San Francisco Opera 2024 Adler Fellows; Adler Concert
[…] Smith, Countess Almaviva • Arianna Rodriguez, Susanna "I was a woman" from prisoner of the state (David Lang)Nikola Printz, the Assistant "Sometimes th’ pain of missin' him" from Cold Sassy Tree (Carlisle Floyd)Victor Cardamone, Will Tweedy "Un dì, se ben rammentomi" from Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)Edward Graves, the Duke of Mantua • Nikola Printz, Maddalena • Arianna Rodriguez, Gilda • Jongwon Han, Rigoletto "Scostatevi ... il Re giunge … Fin dall'età più tenera ... Salirà d'Inghilterra" from Anna Bolena (Gaetano Donizetti)Jongwon Han, Enrico • Mikayla Sager, Anna Bolena • Victor Cardamone, Percy • Edward Graves, Hervey "Giunse alfin il momento … Deh, vieni non tardar" from Le Nozze di Figaro (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)Arianna Rodriguez, Susanna "Let me look around once more … To leave, to break" from Vanessa (Samuel Barber)Olivia Smith, Vanessa • Edward Graves, Anatol • Nikola Printz, Erika • Gabriella Beteag, Old Baroness • Jongwon Han, Old Doctor "Nessun dorma" from Turandot (Giacomo Puccini)Moisés Salazar, Calaf "Les Troyens … Je vais mourir … Adieu, fière cite" from Les Troyens (Hector Berlioz)Gabrielle Beteag, Didon • Nikola Printz, Anna • Jongwon Han, Narbal • Victor Cardamone, Iopas "Già che il […]
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2023-02-01 18:29:57
The wonderful Kit Hesketh-Hervey died suddenly today at... The post Sudden death of British opera maker appeared first on Slippedisc.
2020-07-11 09:28:38
Heroic Handel: I chat to Chris Parsons, artistic director of Eboracum Baroque, about the group's plans including a large-scale on-line concert
[…] was as celebrated as Handel in his native Ipswich. A lot of Gibbs' music does not survive, and we only have his violin sonatas, but Eboracum Baroque has recorded some of them on a disc entitled Sounds of Suffolk, alongside music by Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747), Gottfried Finger (1655-1730) and Charles Dieupart (1667-1740), all composers with links to Suffolk. Bononcini has links with Ickworth House (also now a National Trust property) where he worked for the Hervey family, whilst Charles Dieupart taught the Hervey children. Another regional music making project involves looking at large-scale odes for St Cecilia's Day with Bryan White of Leeds University (who has written a book about music for St Cecilia across the British Isles in the 17th and 18th Centuries), with music by George Holmes (1680-1720), organist of Lincoln Cathedral and Vaughan Richardson (died 1729), organist of Winchester Cathedral, again lesser known names which […]
2017-02-22 12:45:41
Now the milkman’s on his way
Born on this day in 1896 composer Nacio Herb Brown. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2hLvqKe0V8 Born on this day in 1903 baritone Robert Weede. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VLL2hO6C3U Born on this day in 1904 tenor José Soler. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuI9IBNKNC0 Born on this day in 1910 bass Hervey Alan. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn-mV5Uvpo0 Happy 88th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Anny Schlemm. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=uulSl155o7Q Born on this day in 1930 soprano and Hollywood “ghost” singer Marni Nixon. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVjUp8_D0vk Happy 78th birthday baritone Silvano Carroli. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKcS0kW7NwM Happy 34th birthday Unison Media maven Andrew Ousley. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bct5lnV5Bc