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2020-10-03 17:26:00
Early Retirement
Mariusz Kwiecien Damn: Mariusz Kwiecien is retiring from opera. The baritone injured his back several years ago during rehearsals for Don Giovanni at the Met. He had surgery, for a slipped disc, then subsequently had a second surgery that involved an implant between vertebrae in his back. He's only 47 and surely had a decade or more ahead of him. I was lucky enough to see him three times, and hoo boy did he make an impression on me. He has an extremely beautiful voice and a truly magnetic, very sexy, stage presence. First was San Francisco Opera's 2007 Don Giovanni, with Donald Runnicles conducting and an excellent David McVicar production. It was the most successful production of this opera I have seen, because it took the plot seriously and didn't clown around. Also, Kwiecien was just exactly right: virile, sexy, dominating, a little cruel. Next, Krol Roger, in the title […]
2020-06-22 16:30:22
This week in our series in which critics tell us what they’ve been listening to at home, Rian Evans luxuriates in heady Szymanowski and Schoenberg, smells the brine in Aldeburgh and is impressed by an end-of-year double bill This was a week with some indulgently heady stuff, beginning with Szymanowski’s opera Król Roger and followed by Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder. Each deals with kings in crisis, soul-searching in their own way, in highly charged but often ecstatically beautiful music. In the radio broadcast of
2018-10-23 04:56:00
Piotr Beczała - Italian and Polish Art Song Wigmore Hall
Piotr Beczała - photo Anja Frora Can Piotr Beczała sing the pants off Jonas Kaufmann ? Beczała is a major celebrity who could fill a big house, like Kaufmann does, and at Kaufmann prices. Instead, Beczała and Helmut Deutsch reached out to that truly dedicated core audience that has made the reputation of the Wigmore Hall : an audience which takes music seriously enough to stretch themselves with an eclectic evening of Polish and Italian song. The two parts of the programme reflected two aspects of Beczała's artistic persona. As an opera singer, he has sung in Italian, German, French, Russian, Czech and Polish. The Italian songs he chose for this occasion showed the dramatic possibilities in art song - art song for opera singers, vehicles for technique and expressiveness. The programme began with three songs from 36 Arie di stile antico by Stefano Donaudy (1879-1925), a Sicilian contemporary of […]
2018-10-03 04:00:12
Polish Composer & Pianist Karol Szymanowski Born On This Day in 1882 [ON-THIS-DAY]
Polish composer and pianist Karol Szymanowski was born on this day in 1882. Remembered as one of the eminent Polish composers of the 20th Century, his signature works include 4 symphonies, ballets Harnasie and Mandragora, operas Hagith and Krol Roger – and 2 violin concertos. VC YOUNG ARTIST STEPHEN WAARTS & THOMAS HOPPE | KAROL SZYMANOWSKI | […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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