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2024-04-24 17:00:54
The singer-songwriter’s latest record focuses less on role playing and more on exploring extreme states of mind
2024-04-06 11:15:00
Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances
[…] of Cav & Pag) with designs by Paolo Fantin (sets) and Carla Teti (costumes), lighting by Alessandro Carletti, and Elisa Zaninotto as dramaturg. Extensively double cast, including two conductors, we caught the opening night on 5 April 2024 with Antonello Manacorda conducting Aigul Akhmetshina as Carmen, Piotr Beczala as Don Jose, Olga Kulchynska as Micaela, Blaise Malaba as Zuniga, Sarah Dufresne as Frasquita, Gabriele Kupsyte as Mercedes, Kostas Smoriginas as Escamillo, Pierre Doyen as Dancairo and Vincent Ordonneau as Remendado. The matter of casting should be noted, the entire run of the new production (some 16 performances) has perilously few British singers at a time when the Royal Opera is the only major company giving performances in the capital. The production also tries to face both ways, the casting is resolutely international and we saw a Russian Carmen, a Polish Don Jose, a Ukrainian Micaela and Lithuanian Escamillo, yet the version used […]
2024-04-05 04:00:12
The musician Annie Clark loves flasher coats, food candles and phone calls
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-17 13:50:36
[…] front hallway. In the one and only time I ever spoke to the great man, I cautiously went up to him and said, “M. Munch, when will the Boston Symphony perform Chausson’s Symphony in B-flat Major?” Barely looking away from what occupied him at the moment, he replied, “Yes, sometime soon, perhaps next year — it is a beautiful piece of music, isn’t it?” [The BSO has played the Chausson Symphony 46 times, beginning under Vincent d’Indy in 1905. This weekend’s performances are the first since 1993.] I wrote more on Chausson HERE Mark DeVoto, musicologist and composer, is an expert on the music of Alban Berg, Debussy, and other early 20th-century composers. A graduate of Harvard College (1961) and Princeton (Ph.D., 1967), he has published on many music subjects, and edited the revised fourth (1978) and fifth (1987) editions of Harmony by his teacher Walter Piston. The post […]
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