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2024-01-25 20:09:46
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2021-02-26 21:56:27
In 1990, he performed the world premiere of the Giselher Klebe's Cello Concerto under the baton of Daniel Barenboim. A founding member of the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Brandis Quartet, Wolfgang held teaching positions at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin and the Carl Flesch Akademie Baden-Baden. "The music world has lost […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2016-02-04 17:40:48
Love hears, love knows, love answers
This week “Trove Thursday” brings a rare in-house recording of a visit to the Metropolitan Opera House by the Staatsoper Hamburg presenting Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with a deluxe cast—Arlene Saunders, Tatiana Troyanos, Loren Driscoll, Tom Krause and Hans Sotin—conducted by Charles Mackerras. In addition to the Rake, Hamburg, headed at that time by Rolf Liebermann, presented to New York audiences that summer such crowd-pleasers as Gunther Schuller’s The Visitation, Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, Klebe’s Jacobowsky und der Oberst, Janácek’s Jenufa and Berg’s Lulu starring Anneliese Rothenberger. At the time American singers were a strong presence in many German companies; besides our Rake trio, Felicia Weathers and Richard Cassilly were also prominently featured during the Hamburg visit. By 1967 Driscoll was already a noted Tom Rakewell having done it ten years earlier at the Santa Fe Opera in the production that commenced Stravinsky’s celebrated association with that house. Driscoll sang […]
2012-07-05 02:13:00
EVELYN LEAR 1926 - 2012
Evelyn Lear, an American soprano who became a star in Europe in the 1950s and later won acclaim in the United States for singing some of the most difficult roles in contemporary opera, died on Sunday July 1, 2012, in Sandy Spring, Md. She was 86. NYTimes Evelyn Lear (January 8, 1926 – July 1, 2012) was an American operatic soprano. Between 1959 and 1992, she appeared in more than forty operatic roles, appeared with every major opera company in the US and won a Grammy Award in 1966. She was well known for her musical versatility, having sung all three main female roles in Der Rosenkavalier. Lear was also known for her work on 20th century pieces by Robert Ward, Alban Berg, Marvin David Levy, Rudolf Kelterborn and Giselher Klebe. She was married to the American bass-baritone Thomas Stewart until his death in 2006. […]
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