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Italian composer of the Romantic Era
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- Duchy of Parma and Piacenza, Kingdom of Italy
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2024-03-15 18:14:57
They Lived for Their Art — The First Ladies of Opera: Callas, Tebaldi, and Milanov (Part Two), ‘The Cream of the Crop’
Renata Tebaldi and her so-called “dimples of steel” (Photo: Decca Records) Verdi, Puccin
2024-03-15 13:29:43
Riverfront, NewportArts Council of Wales’s decision to axe its funding for Mid Wales Opera means this effective and cogent production is likely their last on this scaleWith the peremptory axing of all its funding last September, Mid Wales Opera has already been dealt a deathblow by the Arts Council of Wales. The company’s strong and sterling new Verdi staging – now confirmed as its last full-scale production – makes the council’s decision look all the more ludicrous.Fielding a cast of 17, and the 16 musicians of Ensemble Cymru plus a community chorus, this may not be full-scale Verdi, but there is absolutely no compromise on integrity. With some fine musical characterisation from the principals as well as those in cameo roles, and a particularly blazing finale to act one, there is a wonderful sense of a defiant upholding of MWO values by artistic director/designer Richard Studer and music director Jonathan Lyness. […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-14 15:45:32
A Long Road of Remembrance and Hope
[…] be used. In my oratorio, I did not intend to write a ‘Romani’ style work, whatever that would even be. Especially given my musical upbringing in the Western classical tradition, I wanted to avoid perpetuating musical stereotypes associated with the Roma, or paying musical lip service by decorating the piece with Roma musical tropes and clichés. That said, I did want to imbue O Lungo Drom with its own tinta, an effective and useful term Verdi used to identify and create the unique ‘color’ of each of his operas, something like a ‘golden thread’ that served as an essential unifying factor in his works. In the oratorio, the substantial use of the cimbalom, a hammered dulcimer from Central-Eastern Europe and used extensively in Roma music ensembles, provides such a tinta. It joins an ensemble consisting of flute, clarinet, piano, string quartet and soprano and baritone vocal soloists. The work’s tinta […]
2024-03-12 10:00:44
On this day in 1857 Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra premiered in Venice
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