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Hungarian opera singer
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- opera singer, theatre manager, voice teacher
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2024-03-27 10:00:12
Born on this day in 1950 mezzo-soprano/soprano Maria Ewing The post appeared first on parterre box.
2024-03-11 07:32:00
Something astonishing: Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice for Welsh National Opera involved a collaboration with circus arts, NoFit State
Britten: Death in Venice - Mark Le Brocq, Antony CésarWelsh National Opera (Photo Johann Persson)Britten: Death in Venice; Mark Le Brocq, Roderick Williams, Alexander Chance, Antony César, Diana Salles, director: Olivia Fuchs, conductor: Leo Hussain; Welsh National Opera in collaboration with NotFit State; Wales Millennium CentreReviewed 9 March 2024Bringing music drama and circus arts together in Britten's last opera to create something unforgettable anchored by Mark Le Brocq's assumption of the title roleBritten's Death in Venice involves the interaction between two worlds, those of Aschenbach and Tadzio, sung music drama and dance. A metaphor for Aschenbach's artistic and personal journey, the exact nature of these two worlds helps govern our perception of whether Aschenbach's relationship with Tazio is entirely in the older man's head or something rooted in reality.For Olivia Fuchs' new production of Britten's Death in Venice, presented by Welsh National Opera at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff (seen 9 March 2024), and then […]
2024-02-08 07:49:00
Diagrams & sonatas: discs of solo piano music Arvo Pärt and Ivor Gurney, neither composer well-known for writing in the genre
[…] also composed songs and piano pieces for children, music for plays and animated films. Four Easy Dances is a suite of four short movements, each in a strongly characterised style, still rather neo-classical but each named - Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Butterflies, Dance of the Ducklings. With the short, but intense Diagramme (Diagrams) from 1964, the style has become much more modernist; striking, yet we would hesitate to identify the composer. Mommy's Kiss (1968) reverts to a more tender, lyrical style, almost sentimental, whilst Ukaru Waltz seems to have fun with a closed form, the way Shostakovich did.With Für Alina from 1976, we reach the watershed and move into the tinntinabuli style. Here we have Pärt mining the piano's sonic abilities to completely magical effect. Originally dating from the same year, Pari intervallo was premiered in October 1976 at the first concert of tinntinabuli works, performed by the ensemble Hortus Musicus […]
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