Cristina Zavalloni News
Italian musician
- mezzo-soprano
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- composer, singer
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2019-06-18 06:40:17
VC Facebook Live webcast direct from the opening night of the 2019 Rockport Music Festival – in Rockport, Massachusetts, United States. Entitled ‘The Roaring 20s’, the gala performance featuring violinist VC Young Artist Blake Pouliot, soprano Cristina Zavalloni, pianist Stephen Prutsman and the Parker and Vera String Quartets. Program including Ravel’s Violin Sonata, Darius Milhaud’s ‘Creation […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2017-12-27 16:19:10
Best Contemporary Opera Recording 2017 – Andriessen’s ‘Theatre of the World’
Louis Andriessen Theatre of the World Leigh Melrose, Lindsey Kesselman, Marcel Beekman, Steven van Watermeulen, Mattijs van de Woerd, Cristina Zavalloni, vocal soloists Los Angeles Philharmonic, Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor Nonesuch 2xCD Dutch composer Louis Andriessen’s 2016 opera, Theatre of the World, subtitled “A Grotesque in Nine Scenes,” is a fantastical portrait of […]
2016-02-14 16:02:56
[…] staging. Directed by Kenneth Richardson, it dispensed with the film by Hal Hartley that was shot for the 2008 Amsterdam stage premiere and which was also packaged with the CD version two years ago. That allowed Andriessen’s magpie-like score, ransacking three centuries of musical history, to be relished fully, and we could grasp the texts in three languages more easily. As in the Amsterdam premiere, the soprano Claron McFadden was Beatrice, and the mezzo Cristina Zavalloni performed Dante; the Lucifer here was baritone Andrew Sauvageau, while Synergy Vocals supplied the chorus and the Finchley Children’s Music Group delivered the charmingly mocking coda. Continue reading...
2016-02-10 09:34:31
The music of Louis Andriessen is instantly recognisable but frustratingly difficult to define. The American Minimalists are a strong influence, but so too is Stravinsky, and though him, Bach. Those figures provide the context for Andriessen's works in ...
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