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Beethoven’s Fidelio at Glyndebourne with Dorothea Herbert and Adam Smith
Beethoven: Fidelio - Adam Smith - Glyndebourne on Tour (© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith Beethoven Fidelio; Dorothea Herbert, Adam Smith, Gertrude Thoma, Callum Thorpe, Carrie-Ann Williams, Gavan Ring, dir: Frederic Wake-Walker, cond: Ben Glassberg; Glyndebourne on Tour at Glyndebourne Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 29 October 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Strong performances and a radical rethink to the dramaturgy as Frederic Wake-Walker's production finally makes it to the stageOriginally entitled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore or The Triumph of Marital Love), Beethoven’s three-act opera Fidelio, set to a German libretto, was prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from a text by French playwright, Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. Written at the time of the French Revolution, the première took place at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20th November 1805 during the French occupation of Beethoven’s beloved Austria.A troublesome work for sure, Fidelio - a […]
2020-09-03 12:09:00
Anne Ozorio and her brother Joe at the Ozorio family mausoleum in Happy Valley, Hong Kong Anne Ozori told me abou Mr Wu as we waited for a Barbican Hall concert on January 10, 2007. The next day I typed up from memory what she had said. So it is not pure Anne Ozorio, but the next best thing. Anne said I would have loved Mr Wu. I can see why. By ROGER THOMAS Anne Ozorio’s fathr was José Augusto Ozorio. (His Macanese nickname was Beano.) There has been a José (or Joseph or Joe) in every generation of the Ozorios since they started appearing in the Macau parish records when these were initiated at the beginning of the 17th century. Beano had a great friend in Hong Kong called Mr Wu. Mr Wu was an extremely rich, flamboyant businessman whose businesses included generic pharmaceuticals such as aspirin and the […]
2020-04-17 17:51:28
Montreal cellist and festival founder Denis Brott is battling the coronavirus at the Chum hospital in Montreal, according to his brother Boris Brott. “Denis’s situation is really quite severe,” Boris Brott told the Hamilton Spectator. The 69-year-old cellist became ill after returning from Holland late last month, according to the Spectator. “He’s intubated,” Boris Brott is quoted [...]
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Faces of classical music
2019-12-21 03:00:00
The best new classical albums: December 2019
[…] own Fazioli piano, so the personal connection between the artist and a favorite instrument must not be overlooked. Hyperion's sound is immaculate, recorded in the Kulturzentrum Grand Hotel in Dobbiaco, Italy, and the recording is fully audible with credible presence.Source: Blair Sanderson (allmusic.com) Ludwig van Beethoven: Leonore, Op.72a (Opera in 3 Acts, Early version of Fidelio – 1805 version)Marlis Petersen, soprano (Leonore)Maximilian Schmitt, tenor (Florestan)Dimitry Ivashchenko, bass (Rocco)Robin Johannsen, soprano (Marzelline)Johannes Weisser, baritone (Don Pizarro)Tareq Nazmi, bass (Don Fernando)Johannes Chum, tenor (Jaquino)Zürcher Sing-Akademie (Florian Helgath, chorus master)Freiburger BarockorchesterConductor: René JacobsRecorded live at Philharmonie de Paris, on November 7, 2017Released on November 29, 2019 by Harmonia MundiAmid the plethora of recordings anticipating the 250th anniversary of his birth next year, I was starting to feel in danger of Beethoven fatigue before 2020 had even arrived until René Jacobs's enthralling, idiosyncratic account of the composer's only opera in its original 1805 version grabbed me by the scruff of the neck […]
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