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2023-01-25 11:00:54
On this day in 1961 baritone Eberhard Wächter made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Wolfram in Tannhäuser.
2020-11-29 12:52:49
A Life On-Line: Orpheus in suburbia, Paris in the 1920s, Britten and Clyne in Perth,
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice - Benjamin Williamson - INvision Opera A new film of Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice made under lockdown becomes an intriguing premise when the couple in the opera, Orfeo and Eurydice are played by real-life couple Benjamin Williamson (counter-tenor) and Paula Sides (soprano), with the film being made in Williamson and Sides' own home (filmed by Jan Capinski) along with the couple's two children. The film was directed and conceived by Timothy Nelson and is available on the INvision website. Accompaniment is on piano, played by Simone Luti and the off-stage chorus is the Shenandoah Chorus, director Matthew Owen. The project's title is Orphée et Eurydice and though sung in Andrew Albin's new poetic translation, the French version of the names is being used so presumably we are talking the Berlioz edition here.The perspicacious amongst you will have spotted a lack in the credits, Amour. […]
2020-01-30 09:00:00
Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro - Currentzis - Kleiber - Gardiner
Figaro - Christian Van Horn Susanna - Fanie Antonelou Count Almaviva - Andrei Bondarenko Countess Almaviva - Simone Kermes Cherubino - Mary-Ellen Nesi Marcellina - Maria Forsström Bartolo - Nikolai Loskutkin Don Basilio - Krystian Adam Don Curzio - James Elliott Antonio - Garry Agadzhanian Teodor Currentzis MusicAeterna (The Chorus and Orchestra of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre) Sony 2012 Digital download, flac HD, cover Teodor Currentzis is the artistic director of the opera house in Perm, on the edge of Siberia. As reported in the January Gramophone, he is recording all three of the Mozart/da Ponte operas: Così fan tutte will appear next autumn, Don Giovanni a year later. The publicity material accompanying the new Figaro talks […]
2019-12-01 14:39:58
Johann Sebastian Bach: Zion hört die Wächter singen Context J. S. Bach’s church cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (‘Awake, calls the voice to us’) was composed for the 27th Sunday after Trinity. It’s first performance happened on the 25th November 1731. This work completed Bach’s second annual cycle […] The post appeared first on Classicalexburns.
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