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2019-08-15 05:07:00
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: Operetta Arias (CD review)
Otto Ackermann, Philharmonia Orchestra. EMI 7243 5 66989 2 5.If you are like me, one of the joys of owning a large record collection is rediscovering something you haven't played in years. A friend of mine reminded me of this disc when he played a few excerpts from his own copy on the eve of his departure for Sri Lanka. He was heading off for two years in the Peace Corp, his idea of retirement, and since he could only bring a few CDs along with him, he was trying to decide which couple of dozen to take. Ms. Schwarzkopf headed his list. The recording, from 1957 (released in 1959), remains one of the finest things the German-born Austro-British soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (1915-2006) ever did, and she recorded a mountain of marvelous discs. She and her record-producer husband, Walter Legge, were meticulous about every detail of a song and a […]
2017-12-19 11:26:55
ConcertoNetCarl Millöcker may not be a household name, but this Austrian was just as significant in contributing to the 'Golden Era' of Viennese operettas as was Franz von Suppé and Johann Strauss Jr. Millöcker was a prolific composer, having created 110 works ...
2017-04-29 15:58:11
We live by encouragement and die without it
Born on this day in 1917 actress Celeste Holm. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG6UllZwj9c Born on this day in 1842 composer Carl Millöcker. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY582F06Rd0 Born on this day in 1879 conductor Thomas Beecham. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIL3Tqyahis Born on this day in 1895 conductor Malcolm Sargent. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdkYojpn644 Happy 81st birthday conductor Zubin Mehta. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-nMfZGAJo Happy 79th birthday bass Harald Stamm. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wABKOstQ3Q0 Happy 62nd birthday baritone Gino Quilico. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYaAtASo65s
2017-04-13 15:02:32
Mountain high, valley low
Be wary of operas that are famous for just one aria or just one famous opinion. Those of us who have attended Rusalka or Romeo et Juliette or Adriana Lecouvreur or Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung have been well-warned and had their fingers slightly burnt. But sometimes, in the proper circumstances, such works have their charms. One sits through the performance undistracted by expectation. You don’t know what the composer has in store for you, or when he will play his cards, or what explosions lie ready to be detonated by the proper singer, the proper production, the proper zeitgeist. And so I went to the Wiener Volksoper for Alfredo Catalani’s La Wally, a work renowned (as much as it can be said to be renowned) for “Ebben? Ne andrò lontana” (that aria from Diva, y’know) at the end of Act I, and for little else. Catalani died quite young, long […]
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