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2021-03-03 09:56:16
Renata Scotto mourns her husband
The Teatro Regio di Parma has announced the death of Lorenzo Anselmi, husband of Renata Scotto for the past 60 years. Lorenzo was 87 and had been in declining health for some time. The couple met while Scotto was singing at La Scala, where Lorenzo played in the front desk of the violins. They moved […]
2016-09-12 16:00:58
Devil’s advocate
[…] in Rome, he studied at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia and began his career in 1893 at age 25. He seems to have been active as an operatic coach in North and South America, South Africa, and various provincial Italian houses He was certainly involved in the 1912 season at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, when he wrote to a friend about a falling-out over the interpretation of Manon between Toscanini and tenor Giuseppe Anselmi, as well as criticizing another conductor of the season, Bernardino Molinari. Rumors exist that Molajoli conducted at La Scala between the two World Wars, but there is nothing to substantiate them. In 1926 the UK-based Columbia Graphophone Company [not a misspelling] hired Molajoli as its house conductor for recordings made in Italy, including its expansion into the new technology of electrical recordings of complete operas. Between 1928 and 1931, Molajoli made recordings of 20 […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-01-14 13:12:21
Venezuela’s media ‘emasculated’ by Sistema brother
We’ve been hearing from journalists on El Univeral, once a vigorous newspaper in Caracas but since last July placed under the chairmanship of Jesús Abreu Anselmi, representing a shadowy group of investors. The journalists (and many readers) say the paper has been dulled down to a shadow of its former self and will not publish anything critical of the country’s despotic government. The new chairman is the brother of the founder of El Sistema, José Antonio Abreu (pictured), visionary light of Venezuela’s music. Jesús Abreu was previously involved in a banking crash.
2014-12-03 03:37:43
[…] in the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul. I Musici was also the original orchestra with that name, adding “di Roma” only when a certain Montreal upstart created the possibility of confusion. Now the Italian ensemble is one baroque group among many. In Winter from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, the 12 players seemed to be keeping up with the Joneses by making the initial frostbitten pulses as percussive and non-harmonic as possible. Violinist Antonio Anselmi (remaining seated despite his solo role) found some sweetness from the middle movement. Otherwise this performance was about as pleasant as the subject of the concerto. Corelli’s Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 4 was more agreeable in sound and style. The German first half was poor. I had to edit in mentally some of the articulation of Bach’s Concerto BWV 1055. Again, only the simple slow movement (with Francesco Buccarella at the harpsichord) generated […]
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