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I was flying back to Boston from Atlanta Friday night, and by good Fortune had a port side window seat in front of the wing. I hadn't thought much of the view I might get on this budget Spirit Airlines flight, but as we descended from clouds into the Greater Boston area, I started noticing I could see a lot of detail out the side, although honestly the window looked too small and smudgey to think I could do any worthwhile photography. I took a few phone photos that looked pretty bad and kind of put the idea way. Then as I started seeing the Boston skyline way in the distance, I thought this might be a nice approach and started video-ing. In this way, I captured the last two minutes of the flight in gorgeous, dusky skylight, with clear views of the South Boston waterfront all the way to the […]
2024-03-21 10:16:00
The Queen of Spades, Deutsche Oper, 20 March 2024
PIQUE DAME von Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij, Premiere am 9. März 2024 in der Deutschen Oper Berlin, copyright: Marcus LieberenzCountess (Doris Soffel) and Hermann (Martin Muehle)Hermann – Martin Muehle Tomsky – Lucio Gallo Prince Yeletsky – Thomas Lehman Chekalinsky – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Surin – Kyle Miller Chaplitsky – Andrew Dickinson Narumov – Artur Garbas Master of Ceremonies – Jörg Schörner The Countess – Doris Soffel Lisa – Maria Motolygina Pauline – Karia Tucker Governess – Nicole Piccolomini Masha – Arianna Manganello Children’s commander – Sofia Kaspruk Little Hermann – Aleksandr Sher Little Lisa – Alma Kraushaar Stage piano – Jisu Park Old servant – Wolfgang SiebnerDirector – Sam BrownDesigner – Stuart NunnChoreography – Ron HowellVideo – Martin EidenbergerLighting – Linus FellbornAssistant directors – Constanze Weidknecht, Silke SenseDramaturgy – Konstantin ParnianChildren’s Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Christian Lindhorst)Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Jeremy Bines)Statisterie, and Opernballet of the Deutsche OperSebastian […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] thank God that one expense was over. But the first concert of the Germania Musical Society opened the Bostonian eyes, and unfastening of the Bostonian purse followed as a matter of course. They did not stay to ask whether it was May or November. Twenty-two concerts were not given in rapid succession, and the unabated enthusiasm was highly encouraging to the members. The last five concerts were played in connection with the then famous vocalist, Fortuneda Tadesca, and the hall was invariably filled to overflowing. It is a fact worth recording that at these twenty-two concerts the overture to “Midsummer Night’s Dream” was played entire fourty-four times, the audience in every instance insisting upon a repetition. The high-road to success was not at length reached, and despite the near approach of summer, engagements from other cities flowed in rapidly. Good, paying concerts were given in Lowell, Taunton, and New Bedford, […]
2024-01-14 14:18:00
Die Zauberflöte, Deutsche Oper, 11 January 2024
Sarastro – Tobias Kehrer Tamino – Kieran Carrel Speaker – Padraic Rowan First Priest – Kyle Miller Second Priest – Jörg Schörner Queen of the Night – Hye-Young Moon Pamina – Elena Tsallagova First Lady – Flurina Stucki Second Lady – Arianna Manganello Third Lady – Davia Bouley Papagena – Meechot Marrero Papageno – Philipp Jekal Monostatos – Burkhard Ulrich First Armoured Man – Patrick Cook Second Armoured Man – Youngkwang Oh Three Boys – Soloists from the Children’s Choir of the Deutsche OperDirector – Günter KrämerRevival director – Gerlinde PelkowskiDesigns – Andreas ReinhardtChorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Thomas Richter) Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinGiulio Cilona (conductor)DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Bettina StößImages from 2008, with different cast Premiered on 24 September 1991, six days short of 200 years from the work’s first performance, Günther Krämer’s Magic Flute has done sterling […]
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