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2020-11-17 19:53:51
Anglais - Sis Solos Soles at the Liceu
Sis solos soles (Six solos alone) consists of six brief monodramas for a female singer accompanied by a single instrument, moving between drama, tragedy and macabre comedy. These take place in six different domestic spaces at six points of the life cycle. This was an innovative proposal that Liceu, in co-production with Òpera de Butxaca I Nova Creació, offered to six contemporary composers to showcase the diverse lines of current musical creation. The project was due to be presented in November in three different spaces of the theatre: the Foyer, the Mirrors Salon and the Backstage of the main stage in the theatre. The audience, of about 150 people, would have been moving through these different spaces in order to see the ensemble of six micro-operas, each lasting between 15 and 20 minutes. The pandemic meant the theatre had to close in October, shortly after the premiere of […]
2020-07-05 11:31:53
A Life On-Line: Dreaming of the Silver Screen in Montpellier, Weber's Euryanthe in Vienna, Tippett's The Ice Break in Birmingham,
Weber: Euryanthe - Theresa Kronthaler (Eglantine), Andrew Foster-Williams (Lysiart)Theater an der Wien (Photo © Monika Rittershaus) Opera this week included two rather different rarely performed operas, Weber's grand romantic opera Euryanthe from Vienna, and Tippett's final opera The Ice Break from Birmingham. And we also caught up with Ted Huffman's production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream which debuted in Montpellier last year. First off we caught up with Christof Loy's production of Weber's Euryanthe which was originally given at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, with Jacquelyn Wagner, Norman Rehinhardt, Theresa Kornthaler, Andrew Foster-Williams and Stefan Cerny, and Constantin Trinks conducting the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Weber's opera is notoriously regarded as unstageable thanks to what is seen as a clunky libretto. I have only seen the opera on stage twice, in Richard Jones' striking production at Glyndebourne, and at the Semper Oper […]
2020-02-29 17:59:00
A Ladin Saint in China
Father (later Saint) Joseph Freinademetz, seated, with fellow missionaries From Abtei (now Badia) one of the five Ladin speaking communes in the Gardetal (now Val Badia), in South Tirol, to villages in China, Joseph Freinademetz, (1852-1908), canonized as a Saint in 2003. In 1879, he left Europe for Sai Kung, a fishing community that was then part of Imperial China. Many in the region never really took kindly to being handed over as part of a scramble for control by European countries after China was weakened in the first Sino-Japanese war. Another connection between the Südtirol and South China! St. Joseph Freinademetz is still an examplefor the modern world, descending into racism and hysteria. All men areequalin the eys of God. “The only language that everyone understands is the language of love” he wrote. "I love China and the Chinese. I want to die among them and […]
2020-02-08 18:29:09
The Austrian-based Adelphi Quartet has this week been awarded 1st prize at the 2020 Irene Steels-Wilsing Foundation String Quartet Competition – in Berlin, Germany. Comprising violinists Maxime Michaluk and Esther Agustí, violist Marko Milenković and cellist Nepomuk Braun, the ensemble are current students of Rainer Schmidt at the Salzburg Mozarteum University. They will received €12,000. 2nd and 3rd […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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