George Morley Vickers News
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2024-04-21
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2024-03-14 13:00:35
The real and the ideal
Chris’s Cache offers a Leoncavallo double-bill: Aprile Millo in Zazà and Jon Vickers and Carol Vaness in Pagliacci
2024-03-13 08:05:00
Little short of a revelation: Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset explore Wagner's influences with In the Shadows
[…] and Romantic colour.Beethoven's Fidelio (1805/1814) had a clear influence on the young Wagner, both in terms of the music and in the development of the heroic tenor voice. Here Spyres sing's Florestan's opening scene, 'Gott! Welch Dunkel hier!…In des Lebens Frühlingstagen'. In both this and the Méhul, the orchestral contribution is significant, bringing out the remarkable colours of orchestration, along with drama and transparent textures. Spyres makes a Florestan in the mould of a lighter Jon Vickers, with the Canadian tenor's openness of tone, but here allied to a narrower focus and lighter touch. He will not be heroic or heavy enough for some, but I loved the sense of firmness and flexibility that he brings to the music.For, as well as a journey into the antecedents of Wagner's music, this is a journey towards a particular type of tenor voice, one that combines power, stamina and flexibility. Often nowadays we […]
2024-01-17 11:00:49
On this day in 1960 tenor Jon Vickers made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Canio
2023-05-30 14:00:42
Expected Wagneriennes
Christa Ludwig sings Kundry in Parsifal with Helge Brilioth, Thomas Stewart and Cesare Siepi conducted by Leopold Ludwig, followed by a legendary Birgit Nilsson–Jon Vickers Tristan und Isolde led by Erich Leinsdorf.
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