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Swiss opera singer (1859-1923)
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- opera singer, singer
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2024-03-04 15:36:37
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part II, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: March 4, 2024. Luigi Dallapiccola, Part II. Last week, we ended the story of the Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola at the beginning of WWII. Mussolini’s fascist state had passed race laws that restricted the civil rights of the Italian Jews, affecting Dallapiccola directly, as his wife was one of them. Later laws would strip the Jews of their assets and send them into internal exile. Italy was no Germany, and these laws weren’t enforced by the Mussolini fascists as they were by the Nazis: no Italian Jews were killed by the regime just because they were Jews (many political opponents of Mussolini were imprisoned and executed, and some of them were Jewish). That state of affairs abruptly changed in 1943 when the Italian army surrendered to the Allies, and in response, the Nazis occupied all of the northern part of Italy. During those years, Dallapiccola […]
2024-03-04 15:22:21
Luigi Dallapiccola - Ulisse, Suite AColette Herzog (Soprano)Claudio Desderi (Baritone)Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Orchestra)Ernest Bour (Conductor)
2022-02-07 14:06:00
R.I.P. Hans Neuenfels, 1941-2022
Hans Neuenfels, who died today, played a very important role in my personal development towards greater understanding—I hope!—of opera as theatre that is, or should be, both alive and critical. The first production of his I saw was his 2000 Così fan tutte: my first ever Così, and one which in its determination to delve beneath the surface and to reveal the sadomasochism that lies at the heart of this richest of works, has informed my understanding and adoration ever since. (What a pity this walk through the treacherous pleasure gardens seems never to have been recorded, or at least released. Who knows? Maybe there is yet hope.) Since then, I have seen a good few of his opera productions, including La finta giardiniera, Ariadne auf Naxos, The Queen of Spades, and most recently Salome, all of which were a privilege to have encountered—and which encounters continue to […]
2021-10-12 03:19:34
In June, 25-year-old Quebec City native Julien Siino returned to the concert stage to play Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with conductor Mathieu Herzog and Ensemble Appassionato at the Seine Musicale in Paris. “Such an exhilarating experience,” says the recent recipient of an award of excellence from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Siino was cellist in [...]
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