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Czech conductor, composer and choirmaster
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Karel Moor)
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2023-12-21 14:00:57
Field and fountain, Moor and Montemezzi
Today’s Three Kings aren’t the ones who arrive in Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera usually performed this time of year
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2022-07-15 12:05:51
Russell Thomas says opera must reflect the diverse world around it to survive, not stick to the ‘same-old, same-old’It was heralded as a significant moment in opera history – after more than 130 years and 234 performances at the Royal Opera House, the titular role in Verdi’s Otello was finally performed by a black man.Taking to the Covent Garden stage this week, the American virtuosic tenor Russell Thomas powerfully depicted the tragic fall of Shakespeare’s famous Moor of Venice, largely to critics’ delight.
2022-04-22 00:12:40
"Suite d'Abdelazer: or, the Moor's revenge: Rondeau" by Henry Purcell, Ensemble Orchestral Harmonia Nova & Didier Bouture, Didier Bouture, Ensemble Orchestral Harmonia Nova added to Classical Music | Writing & Study playlist on Spotify
Another lovely composition for Study and writing Discover “Suite d’Abdelazer: or, the mo
2022-02-20 13:41:14
[…] done, Petrushka in particular: this was one of the finest performances I’ve heard of it in London for some time. The central narrative, tragic yet ironic, was thrown into sharp relief by the cacophony of the Shrovetide fair, vivid in its whirling detail and verve. Petrushka’s shrieks of desire and despair combined pathos with grotesquerie, nowhere more so than at the close when his ghost confronts the Magician who has created and abused him. The Moor’s music had a heady sensuality, while the Ballerina’s flute and cornet solos were all flirtatious impertinence. The Rite of Spring was comparably powerful, edge-of-your-seat stuff, with great beauty amid the violence (the Mystic Circles of the Young Girls were simply ravishing) gradually accumulating tension as it went, rather than eruptive and seething from the outset.
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