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2023-12-18 19:35:00
Ascanio in Alba, Oper Frankfurt, 17 December 2023
Bockenheimer DepotVenus – Kateryna Kasper Ascanio – Cecilia Hall Silvia – Karolina Bengtsson Aceste – Andrew Kim Fauno – Anna Nekhames Secretary – Aijan Ryskulova Bodyguard – Stefan Biaesch Silvia’s friends – Valentina Ziegler, Isabel Casás RamaNina Brazier (director)Christoph Fischer (set design)Henriette Hübschmann (costumes)Jonathan Pickers (lighting)Deborah Einspieler (dramaturgy)Vocal Ensemble (recorded)Frankfurt Opera and Museum OrchestraAlden Gatt (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausAceste (Andrew Kim), Silvia (Karolina Bengtsson), Venus (Kateryna Kasper), Ascanio (Cecelia Hall), Fauno (Anna Nekhames) It is not every day I get to hear a Mozart opera live for the first time. And yet, this year 2023, some time after my first year of opera-going, I have done so twice: Il re pastore at this year’s Salzburg Festival, albeit in concert performance, and now Oper Frankfurt’s new Ascanio in Alba, directed by Nina Brazier and conducted by Alden Gatt. Two to go, but another two ticked off the list—not that I ever wish to […]
2022-06-29 07:32:32
BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturday, June 29, 1822
BEETHOVEN 200 YEARS AGO TODAY: Saturday, June 29, 1822 Today in Vienna, on the feast day of Apostles Peter and Paul, Beethoven’s principal patron Archduke and Cardinal Rudolph consecrates Dr. Gregor Thomas [Grzegorz Tomasz] Ziegler (1770-1852) as Bishop of Tyniec. Tyniec is an historic village in Poland on the Vistula …
2021-11-10 03:00:00
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (Bernard Haitink)
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756–91) Così fan tutte, K588 Carol Vaness (Fiordiligi), Delores Ziegler (Dorabella), Lilian Watson (Despina), John Aler (Ferrando), Dale Duesing (Guglielmo), Claudio Desderi (Don Alfonso) Glyndebourne Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (1987) 3 CDs Flac Files, Front & Back Covers I have also included on a separate link 2 excellent essays from the booklet: "The neglect & rediscovery of a masterpiece" by William Mann (1987) and "The enigma of Cosi Fan Tutte" by David Cairns (1978).
2021-08-21 05:42:00
Classical Music News of the Week, August 21, 2021
[…] composer Caroline Shaw and Grammy Award-winning cellist Andrew Yee will gove a one-night-only performance of Music for Two People in the Catacombs of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. The program will feature new compositions and adaptations of previous works, all written by Shaw and Yee, including the world premiere of a piece inspired by Green-Wood's vast tree collection. Performances will be at 5:00PM, 6:00PM, and 7:30PM.On Thursday September 9, composer Paola Prestini and her husband, cellist Jeffrey Ziegler, will perform at National Sawdust in Brooklyn (the venue's first in-person event since the pandemic), playing a program entitled Houses of Zodiac in advance of the release of their album by the same name. The project combines spoken word, movement, music, and image to explore the intersection of mind, body, and nature, and the evening will also include film projections by filmmaker Murat Eyuboglu, choreography by Butoh dance master Dai Matsuoka and "Rogue Ballerina" […]
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