Audrey Mildmay News
English-Canadian singer (1900-1953)
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- opera singer
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2019-11-23 10:09:00
Mozart - The Da Ponte Trilogy - Fritz Busch at Glyndebourne - Warner new remastering
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1761 - 1791)Le nozze di Figaro - Così fan tutte - Don Giovanni (1934-1936)Così fan tutte (1950, excerpts) Idomeneo (1951, excerpts)Audrey Mildmay, Luise Helletsgrüber, Aulikki RautavaaraWilli Domgraf-Fassbaender, Roy Henderson, Ina SouezHeddle Nash, John Brownlee, Salvatore BaccaloniIrene Eisinger, Richard Lewis, Sena Jurinac, Erick KunzBlanche Thebom, Mario Borriello,Dorothy McNeil,Alexander Young .Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and Orchestradir: Fritz BuschWarner Classics ( 2017) 0190295201748 9 CDsRemastered 2017 Parlophone Records Limited.[flac & cue; box cover, inlays, booklet & disc scans]The excellence of these recordings conducted magnificently by Fritz Busch (the first ever made of Mozart’s operas), especially Don Giovanni, and the wonderful Così fan tutte, is already well known. They were already remastered from 2001 to 2004 by Ward Marston with the quality that characterizes his remasterings.In 2017 the division of Warner Music, Parlophone remastered them again notably improving the sound of already very good editions of Naxos.Sound is now more clean and clear, […]
2018-04-14 08:08:03
David Hare's The Moderate Soprano at the Duke of York's Theatre
[…] pursuit of excellence. It was a chance, Christie said, to put something back. Roger Allam was pitch perfect as the patrician captain who adored Wagner and got Mozart. His bone-dry delivery captured the eccentric zeal, his paternal and patrician ways that, whilst efficient, sometimes smacked of a willful lack of social grace.Despite knowing very little of the business of opera and its exemplars Christie was nurtured and guided by his anything but moderate wife Audrey Mildmay. Nancy Carroll’s Audrey is a picture of refinement and diplomacy, devoting her considerable talents to her husband's grand plans and compromising her own career in the process. The scenes of Audrey’s later years of illness and self-doubt were achingly poignant.Jacob Fortune-Lloyd as Bing showed us the charm and nous that would ultimately take him to the Metropolitan Opera whilst Anthony Calf and Paul Jesson as Ebert and Busch, despite their sobering exile, show the […]
2018-04-04 06:13:38
The Moderate Soprano returns
Nancy Carroll and Roger Allam in David Hare's The Moderate Soprano David Hare's play The Moderate Soprano tells the story of the founding of Glyndebourne, relating John Christie's passion for the soprano Audrey Mildmay and the way their romance was woven into Christie's found of the Glyndebourne Festival where the opening performance was Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with Mildmay as Susanna.The play was premiered at the Hampstead Theatre in 2015, and Michael Billington in The Guardian gave it four stars, describing the play as 'enjoyably complex', and 'Hare’s moving play, while telling a good, if not exactly unfamiliar story, is about many other things – including the contradictory nature of Englishness, sexual passion and the quest for the ideal.'The production is now coming to the Duke of York's Theatre, running from 6 April to 30 June 2018 (previews from 6/4, opening night 12/4). Jeremy Herrin, who directed the […]
2016-12-19 16:51:59
The impresaria
Born on this day in 1900 soprano and Glyndebourne founder Audrey Mildmay. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QeZwqcWcxc Born on this day in 1751 composer Giuseppe Giordani.sadly not the composer of the classical singer’s first aria (his brother was.) //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIy47JUmos Born on this day in 1882 composer Walter Braunfels. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLPqTYQuQ0k Born on this day in 1888 conductor Fritz Reiner. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs8zXjxDAmE Born on this day in 1902 soprano Dusolina Giannini. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pARisXbXwE Born on this day in 1915 singer Edith Piaf. Happy 72nd birthday conductor William Christie. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTcajfCbFWw Happy 67th birthday baritone Russell Smythe. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfk0ePLwcF0 Happy 59th birthday baritone Olaf Bär.
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