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2022-04-15 18:00:45
A longtime collaborator with La Monnaie, Boesmans started there in 1985, serving under general directors Gerard Mortier, Bernard Foccroulle, and Peter de Caluwe. Gerard Mortier commissioned several of his works, including La Passion de Gilles (1983), the Trakl-Lieder (1987) and the 1989 orchestration of L’Incoronazione di Poppea de Monteverdi. Bernard Foccroulle, in 1993, then commissioned a new opera, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-01-30 17:44:00
Anglais - Contemporary opera: A conversation with Vasco Mendonça
[…] don’t care what it is – only if they like it or not. I love that! Your three operas were commissions. Were you given any instructions concerning the nature of the music? In all my commissions I mostly had carte blanche to do whatever I wanted. I feel very lucky because the process of opera involves so many different people and artistic personalities, and it´s sometimes not easy to navigate it. When Bernard Foccroulle approached me for The House Taken Over, he asked me to suggest a subject before talking about the artistic team. It was a comfortable process. For Bosch Beach, the subject was already there when I joined the process, but I was still able to discuss the libretto with the librettist. Then comes the question of communication between the director, the composer and the librettist… That’s probably one of the main questions in […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-01-19 09:35:04
Serious fire damage to Brussels concert hall and organ
The effects of yesterday’s fire at the Beaux Arts (Bozar) concert hall are now being assessed and the damage is extensive. The hall director Paul Dujardin was on the radio this morning saying that the steel and glass roof is unstable and could cave in after last night’s heavy rain. The composer Bernard Foccroulle, former […]
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