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The most successful opera composer of the 19th century? A look at Meyerbeer and his operas
Meyerbeer: Le prophète - Deutsche Oper, Berlin 2017 (Photo Bettina Stöß) Giacomo Meyerbeer was one of the most successful, perhaps the most successful, opera composers of the 19th century. With the decline of Meyerbeer’s reputation during the 20th century, we have lost sight of the significant influence that his operas had on his contemporaries, including Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. In a series of articles, I will be looking at the intriguing relationships between the 19th century’s two greatest opera composers (Wagner and Verdi) and the most performed opera composer of the century (Meyerbeer). But before we look at his influence, I first wanted to explore a little more about Meyerbeer and his music. Giacomo Meyerbeer, engraving from a photograph by Pierre Petit (1865) Giacomo Meyerbeer was born in Prussia, near Berlin, and his studies included periods under Antonio Salieri, and as a fellow student of […]
2019-11-13 12:57:28
“Let me feel, not speak”
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-07-16 14:45:24
Sony Picks Up Respected Book-To-Film Unit That Disney Shut Down
“Sony and HarperCollins Publishers said on Monday that they would finance a yet-to-be-named venture run by the executive, Elizabeth Gabler, who is considered Hollywood’s foremost bridge to the New York publishing world. Ms. Gabler, 63, was previously president of Fox 2000, a division of 20th Century Fox, which Disney absorbed in March as part of […]
2018-07-28 14:15:00
Munich Opera Festival (1) - Götterdammerung, 27 July 2018
Nationaltheater, Munich Gutrune (Anna Gabler, Brünnhilde (Nina Stemme)Images: © Wilfried Hösl Siegfried – Stefan Vinke Gunther – Markus Eiche Hagen – Hans-Peter König Alberich – John Lundgren Brünnhilde – Nina Stemme Gutrune, Third Norn – Anna Gabler Waltraute, First Norn – Okka von der Damerau Woglinde – Hanna-Elisabeth Müller Wellgunde – Rachael Wilson Flosshilde, Second Norn – Jennifer Johnston Andreas Kriegenburg (director) Georgine Balk (revival director) Harald B. Thor (set designs) Andrea Schraad (costumes) Stefan Bolliger (lighting) Zenta Haerter (choreography) Marton Tiedtke, Olaf A. Schmitt (dramaturgy) Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Extra Chorus (chorus master: Sören Eckhoff) Bavarian State Orchestra Kirill Petrenko (conductor) What I am about to write must be taken with the proviso that I have not seen, this year or any other, the rest of Andreas Kriegenburg’s Munich Ring. Friends tell me that would have made little difference, yet I […]
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