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American soprano opera singer (1955-)
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-28 23:24:03
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony needs no tribute on its 200th birthday, but is being honored with repeat performances everywhere, including several nearby; on May 12th Lexington Symphony will essay it in a matinee. Retired professors are often the only ones who have time to present research findings at conferences; thus a small cohort of Beethoven experts and their friends (even a few graduate students) gathered on Wednesday in Hillel House at Boston University to honor the forthcoming (on May 7th) bicentennial in “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: a 200-year Perspective.” Organized by the founding co-directors of the Boston University Center for Beethoven Research, Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University) and Lewis Lockwood (Harvard), whose Beethoven’s Lives: The Biographical Tradition Boydell & Brewer recently published, the festival heard from six scholars including one visitor from overseas. Beate Angelika Kraus of the Beethoven Archive in Bonn has just prepared and published, based on dozens of different manuscript sources, […]
2023-09-17 15:59:00
Das Floß der Medusa, Komische Oper, 16 September 2023
Hangar 1, Tempelhof AirportImages: Jaro Suffner La Mort – Gloria Rehm Jean-Charles – Günter Papendell Charon – Idunnu Münch Four Dead – Takshiro Namiki, Taiki Miyashita, Yauci Yanes Ortega, Matthias Spenke, Fermin Basterra Thirteen Dying – Polly Ott, Agnes Dasch, Sarah Papodopoulo, Viola Weimker, Claudia Buhrmann, Orine Nosaki, Wiebke Kretzschmar, Martin Fehr, Christoph Eder, Hartmut Schröder, Martin Netter, Thomas Heiß, Werner Matusch Fourteen Surviving – Angela Postweiler, Uta Krause, Veronika Burger, Claudia van Hasselt, Julia Hebecker, Ulrike Jahn, Hans-Dierer Gilleßen, Michael Schaffrath, Matthias Eger, Laurin Oppermann, Philipp Schreyer, Simon Berg, Enrico Wenzel, Frank SchwemmerTobias Kratzer (director)Rainer Sellmaier (designs)Marguerite Donlon (choreography)Julia Jordà Stoppelhaar (dramaturgy)Lighting – Olaf FreeseSound design – Holger SchwarkChoir Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: David Cavelius)Movement Choir and Children’s Extras of the Komische OperVocalconsort BerlinStaats- und Domchor Berlin (director: Kai-Uew Jirka)Orchestra of the Komische Oper, BerlinTitus Engel (conductor)Henze’s Raft of the Medusa may lay claim to the […]
2023-09-01 19:25:00
2022-06-09 14:00:56
Queen’s evidence
Trove Thursday’s belated contribution to last weekend’s Platinum Jubilee is a broadcast from Aldeburgh of Benjamin Britten’s Gloriana with Christine Brewer and Tom Randle as Elizabeth and Essex, an opera which premiered 69 years ago yesterday.
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