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Polish soprano singer
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2016-03-06 15:46:37
Review – Tchaikovsky, Zemlinsky & Szymanowski (Royal Festival Hall, Saturday 5 March 2016) Symphony No. 3 “Polish” (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky) Six Maeterlinck Lieder (Alexander von Zemlinsky) Stabat Mater (Karol Szymanowski) Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano) Elzbieta Szmytka (Soprano) Andrzej Dobber (Bass) London Philharmonic Choir London Philharmonic Vladimir Jurowski (Conductor) A concert in part to celebrate the 1050th anniversary of the Baptism of Poland was somewhat of a schizophrenic affair. There is a quasi-correct connection between Tchaikovsky’s mis-named “Polish” Symphony No. 3 and Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater commissioned by the rather racy Princesse de Polignac. However I couldn’t find a direct connection with Zemlinsky except the fact that Louise Zemlinsky’s mother died in a concentration camp in Poland. But I think that is a coincidental connection rather than a deliberate one. Apart from historical schizophrenia, it was also a schizophrenic event in terms of the overall musical […]
2015-05-04 23:30:16
Gold coasting
Mahagonny is one of my two favorite operas (care to guess the other?), but it’s damned hard to find a well-sung performance (with opera singers, not Broadway divas) without cuts. This performance from Madrid comes very close, although why they chose to perform it in English (in a kind of messy translation) is anyone's guess. Missing are the “pretty boy” verse of “Alabama Song,” a fairly large chunk of the whorehouse scene, and no place was found for the “Kraniche-Duett” (alright: in the score it’s marked as optional and can fit dramatically in any of the three acts). The star here is Christopher Vetris, who performs Jimmy with a sweet and true Heldentenor. Elzbieta Szmytka has a rather unstable voice and sings with a Polish accent, but at least she manages the trills in “Alabama Song” (I’ll bet you didn’t know there were trills in the score). The supporting cast […]
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