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From Harald en Italie to Le prophète in New York: 2024 Bard Summerscape focuses on Berlioz and his world
Fisher Center at Bard College (Photo: Peter Aaron '68/Esto) The Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in the Hudson Valley, New York City, presents an annual Summerscape festival and this year there are eight weeks of opera, theatre, dance and a music festival from 20 June to 18 August 2024. The theme of the music festival is Berlioz and His World. Alongside wide-ranging concerts of music by Berlioz and his contemporaries, there is a rare staging of Meyerbeer's Le prophète (26 July to 4 August) directed by Christian Räth, with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein and featuring Robert Watson (Siegmund in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Die Walküre at the Staatsoper, Berlin) in the title role plus Jennifer Feinstein as Fidès. Meyerbeer's Le prophète featured at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918 as a vehicle for Enrico Caruso, and returned in 1977 with James McCracken and Marilyn Horne, since then I am […]
2022-04-16 04:23:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 16, 2022
[…] New York announced the winners of its 45th Annual Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition Finals held on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 1:30pm at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Eight emerging classical singers, selected from a pool of semifinalists, performed major oratorio arias with piano accompaniment. The Solo Competition was inaugurated in 1977 to encourage the art of oratorio singing and to give young singers an opportunity to advance their careers.Julie Roset received the Holly McCracken Award, earning First Place in the competition and a $7,000 cash prize. Eric Carey received the Meyerson/Zwanger Award, earning Second Place and a $5,000 prize, and William Socolof received the Janet Plucknett Award, earning Third Place and a $3,000 prize.Additionally, Morgan Balfour received the Esther Korshin Award (Fourth Place, $2,500 prize); Joseph Parrish received the Watson Family Award (Fifth Place, $1,500 prize); Sophie Michaux received the William Grogan Award (Sixth Place, $1,000 prize); Bradyn […]
2020-12-01 21:22:31
Aida
Starring Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, James McCracken and Simon Estes, conducted by James Levine. From January 3, 1985.
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2020-11-29 12:00:11
Is That Mysterious Monolith In Utah Actually By Artist John McCracken?
McCracken’s son says maybe. “He was inspired by the idea of alien visitors leaving objects that resembled his work, or that his work resembled. This discovery of a monolith piece — that’s very much in line with his artistic vision.” – The New York Times
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