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French composer
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2017-05-08 18:53:06
Fifty shades of gold
Anticipation of events like the Metropolitan Opera’s 50th Anniversary bash turns me back into the newly opera-soused kid who begged his parents to let him watch the highlights of the Bing Gala on the family color television since the little black-and-white set in my bedroom just wasn’t good enough. (They agreed!) Since becoming an “adult” I’ve been lucky to attend a bunch of these aria-and-ensemble parades and remain besotted with them despite their usually being both wonderful and terrible, too much but not enough, exhausting yet exhilarating. Sunday’s Met extravaganza was all of these things but also unusually thoughtful and moving. Although most of my gala-going has been at the Met, the first one I attended was the concert celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Since it was taking place on my birthday and Chicago is in easy driving distance from Ohio, how could I […]
2014-08-12 16:20:00
Anthony Tommasini wrote an article about risk-taking at the Met, and Drew McManus followed up with a good analysis of both that article and the Met's situation. But there are some issues neither of them addresses at all that are relevant to the issue of the Met as an artistic leader and risk-taker. They are both aware of these issues, but somehow these points don't emerge in the articles, other than that Tommasini does mention the misbegotten Lepage Ring in passing, a production that Peter Gelb has unsuccessfully tried to pass off as innovative and risk-taking. (To repeat why this isn't so: a unit-set production with terrible Personregie isn't innovative. It's dumb.) In any event, my major point is that I do not think the words "artistic risk" and "Met" can reasonably be used in relation to each other.The Met has close to 4000 seats to fill, hence the […]
2013-01-18 13:32:13
Yes, the ENO has suffered a funding cut, but it has also fallen behind in programming, fundraising and knowing its audienceIt's no surprise that when funding has tightened, it is English National Opera that has become the first major arts company to fall into the red. It has a history of financial fragility – seen most dramatically in 2003, when an £11m Arts Council England bailout kept it afloat. But there is more to the company's £2.2m deficit than a reduced grant and the economic downturn.The shortfall is largely down to poor box office: during the last financial year, only 71% of seats were filled. It's not a universal problem in London's performing arts. The National Theatre, by contrast, played to 92% over the same period, and the Royal Opera House to 92% over the year from September 2011. Something's wrong: something that's particular to ENO.The company has a potential […]
Brian Dickie, Life as General Director of Chicago
2013-01-14 17:01:19
The venerable British Broadcasting Corporation has a long and impressive record of support for young artists. Their Young Musician of the Year awards were founded 35 years ago, and they have also been hugely supportive of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition, one of the most admired competitions for burgeoning opera singers. (Neue Stimmen is the other!) And now they have their New Generation Artists scheme which is under the management of BBC's Radio 3 - and features some of the most talented artists of the younger generation, including singers of course. This afternoon I was at the Wigmore Hall reciital given by one of these young people. This was Ruby Hughes - a most intelligent and rather classy soprano who was the winner of the London Handel Singing Competition in 2009. I would love to hear her in this repertore, for she was extremely distinguished in Haydn, Brahms, […]
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