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2024-03-29
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] Even at this early day, however, it is worth remarking that the best music was frequently the most popular, and in Philadelphia, especially, the concerts of the Germania, which sometimes occurred on the same nights with those of M. Jullien, were nearly always more fully attended. In order to offer something novel and attractive, the society now produced the “Midsummer Night’s Dream” in a style of unusual completeness. Miss Kate Saxon read the text, Miss Lehmann gave the songs, and the orchestra performed Mendelssohn’s music. The enterprise, however, did not realize their expectations either in pecuniary results or general interest. The more recent members began to grow discouraged. They had not known adversity. Boarding at three dollars a week in fourth-class houses, and playing in ten-dollar halls to empty benches, had not been numbered among their experiences. Uninfluenced by the calmer judgment of the more experienced members, they held a […]
2024-01-21 14:35:00
Daphne, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 20 January 2024
Peneios – René PapeGaea – Anna KissjuditDaphne – Vera-Lotte BoeckerLeukippos – Johan KrogiusApollo – David Butt PhilipFour Shepherds – Arttu Kataja, Florian Hoffmann, Adam Kutuy, Friedrich HamelTwo Maids – Evelin Novak, Natalia SkryckaDirector, set design, costumes, lighting – Romeo Castellucci Revival director – José Dario Innella Choreography – Evelin Facchini Assistant director – Maxi Menja Lehmann Set design assistance – Lisa Behensky, Alessio Valmori Costume assistance – Clara Rosina Straßer, Theresa Wilson Lighting assistance – Marco GiustiStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinThomas Guggeis (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausDaphne (Vera-Lotte Boecker) Seen first last year, Romeo Castellucci’s production of Daphne receives its first revival. In one sense, it could hardly be more timely, snow falling outside in wintry landscapes across Berlin and beyond, as it does onstage. Yet that immediately presents a greater untimeliness to the mise-en-scène, for a modern snowscape seems perversely distant from the Thessalian pastoral of Joseph Gregor’s libretto […]
2024-01-11 11:00:45
On this day in 1934 soprano Lotte Lehmann made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Sieglinde.
2023-02-27 12:25:11
On this day in 1890 the Metropolitan Opera presented the company premiere of Bellini’s Norma as “a benefit to supplement the earnings of Lilli Lehmann.”
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