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2024-04-25
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-04 19:21:12
BSO Announces Subscription Season
[…] in Three Movements, as well as the familiarly thrilling Firebird Suite. HIs first opera. Die tote Stadt (1920), instantly established the 23-year-old prodigy Wolfgang Korngold. Its many fine moments, such as the immortal “Marietta’s Lied,” convey the emotional wallop of his later Hollywood scores. A Grieg-Sibelius event, all warhorses except the Sib Seventh, comes in November. Executive director Chad’s Smith first complete season schedules embraces: plentiful Ravel and Tchaikovsky, including the latter’s less-often-heard Francesca da Rimini; copious Shostakovich, to help Andris Nelsons fill out his namesake cycle; some fine Haydn and Mozart to match Beethoven, one Schubert, the charming Rossinian Sixth Symphony; one Berlioz (Waverley); one Schumann (Piano Concerto with Jonathan Biss, welcome back!); and some lesser-known Russian works, including Rachmaninoff’s striking Symphony No. 3 (his best); and a lovely ancestor, The Enchanted Lake by Anatol Liadov. Among recently composed works, Tania León is back again with a new commission; […]
2024-02-19 11:00:15
On this day in 1914 Zandonai‘s Francesca da Rimini premiered in Turin
2024-01-30 07:50:00
Back with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden
[…] fact that she is mentally broken. The recognition scene was powerful rather than touching, and the end, when it came, felt like sort of triumph. As with the finest Elektra performances, this did not feel like a performance but the singer incarnating the character.Sara Jakubiak is one of those singers who throw themselves wholeheartedly into a role; we saw her in 2023 at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin in another Christof Loy production, Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini [see my review]. Her Chrysothemis was glamorous, yes, but also powerful and feisty. Jakubiak made her restless and almost angry at times, chafing at her confinement, with Jakubiak's richly upholstered voice adding an extra dramatic quotient to the role. This was a thrilling performance that wonderfully matched Stemme, so that their scenes together really bristled with emotions, and Stemme was brilliant at the unsaid, the physical response to Jakubiak's vivid articulation of Chrysothemis' emotions.Strauss: […]
2024-01-01 11:16:00
A time to look back
The late Keel Watson as Wotan in Wagner's Die Walküre with Regents Opera in 2023 (Photo: Steve GregsonNew Year is always a time to look back and remember. 2023 saw us publishing 627 articles, from our review of the Dunedin Consort's 2022 New Year's Eve concert at Wigmore Hall to our note about Adam Whitmore and Phoenix Consort's crowdfunding for their debut disc of music by Alex Campkin. A total of 70 opera reviews, over 80 concert reviews, and over 40 interviews. You can explore further in our recently updated archives of live reviews, record reviews, and interviews.Overseas events that we covered included Le piano symphonique festival in Lucerne, Britten's Peter Grimes in Paris, Handel's Saul at the Komische Oper Berlin, Christoph Loy's production of Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carmen at Oper im Steinbruch in Austria, the launch of the Dresden Music Festival's historically informed Ring cycle with […]
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