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Japanese pianist (1944-2016)
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2022-06-20 20:16:31
Anglais - First Rate Cast in Excellent Revival of Madama Butterfly at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[…] members may be hard pressed to identify all of the differences there are between this and previous revivals, the aim has certainly been achieved as the production feels distinctly more refined and respectful now. In the pit, Dan Ettinger’s conducting is highly assured as he brings a notable degree of richness to the orchestra’s consistently precise and balanced sound. Two casts perform over the course of the run with the other performers including Eri Nakamura as Cio-Cio-San, Gianluca Terranova as Pinkerton, Gyula Nagy as Sharpless and Patricia Bardon as Suzuki. This production will also return to the Royal Opera House in September and October 2022. By Sam Smith Madama Butterfly | 14 June - 6 July 2022 | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (c) Yasuko Kageyama
2020-05-17 00:33:00
Music Kitchen Forgotten Voices FEBRUARY Premiere #14 Featuring Gabriel Kahane's "All Is Quiet"
[…] the aisles of D. Coluccio & Sons in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where he can often be found ogling sleek packages of bespoke bucatini. #YOLO 2. As a kid growing up in Rochester, NY and then Santa Rosa, CA, he was a fiercely competitive chess player, traveling around the United States to compete in tournaments that took place in hotel ballrooms air-conditioned to temperatures that wouldn’t be out of place in a steakhouse’s walk-in refrigerator. In 1998, Gabriel beat Hikaru Nakamura at the U.S. Open; Nakamura would go on to become a grandmaster and four-time overall U.S. Chess Champion. (Okay, Hikaru was twelve at the time, but still!) 3. Gabriel’s career as a musician began in earnest at a Chinese restaurant in a small town in New England, where, at the age of four, he picked up a solitary chopstick and began conducting an imaginary performance of Brahms’ 2nd Piano Concerto. Or at least that’s the story his […]
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2020-04-26 14:00:00
A Traveling Theatre Troupe In Japan, Ground To A Halt By Nothing Ever
Though the troupe has cut back on performances, it’s still going (Japan has encouraged people to stay home, but hasn’t shut down places like theatres – at the time of writing this post): “Gekidan Miyama has been entertaining audiences for over a century, persisting, as Nakamura says, through earthquakes and typhoons, but also managing to […]
2020-04-26 09:28:53
A Life on Line: Gluck's Alceste, Cilea's Adriana, Strauss' Frau ohne Schatten (not to mention the young man without clothes)
[…] and conductors to cut and re-shape. Whilst Warlikowski and designer Malgorzata Szczesniak brought a great deal of visual stimulus to the production with some complex iconography, the story was told pretty straight and, unlike the recent Covent Garden production, the final act was pretty uncut. Johan Botha was the Emperor, Adrianne Pieczonka the Empress, Deborah Polaski the Nurse, Wolfgang Koch was Barak, Elena Pankratova was his wife, with Sebastian Holecek, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Dean Power, Eri Nakamura, Okka von der Damerau. Warlikowski made great use of a scantily clad male dancer for the young man conjured by the nurse, which provided some lovely visual distraction. But it was the conducting of Kirill Petrenko which gripped, and despite the complex iconography I found the performance riveting.On Tuesday we went over to OperaVision where we caught the Italian version of Gluck's Alceste from La Fenice in Venice. Pier Luigi Pizzi's production was very, […]
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