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Sergio Mims: Unison Media: Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres to release 'Amici e Rivali' on Erato, November 13, 2020
[…] Carlo opera house in Naples. (While Le Siège de Corinthe was in fact written for Paris, it derived from Maometto II, premiered six years earlier at the San Carlo.) Rossini conceived them for specific singers, several of whom became defining forces in musical history: the tenors Andrea Nozzari, Giovanni David, Manuel García, Louis Nourrit and Adolphe Nourrit (a father/son pairing), Giuseppe Ciccimarra and Claudio Bonoldi, and the baritone Luigi Zamboni, who created the role of Figaro. Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee first sang together in 2018 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, where their spectacular program – bristling with stratospheric top notes and cascades of coloratura – included three Rossini duets. As Michael Spyres explains: “Larry and I have known each other for over a decade but we never had the chance to work with each other until […]
2017-07-25 13:00:10
Time remembered
Born on this day in 1894 soprano Yvonne Printemps. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGU26LPAf78 Born on this day in 1654 composer Agostino Steffani. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=8baWTJdqpbc Born on this day in 1853 playwright David Belasco. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgCNQKiF2O8 Born on this day in 1883 composer and conductor Alfredo Casella. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWK9eA9X3AQ Born on this day in 1895 soprano Maria Zamboni. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=skcEAK8CYSo Born on this day in 1930 contralto Maureen Forrester. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdsVfbm5hbQ
2016-07-25 15:24:15
Gorgeous
Happy 81st birthday actress Barbara Harris. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjVSqEURLUo Born on this day in 1654 composer Agostino Steffani. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g7Yr52t12w Born on this day in 1853 playwright David Belasco. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgCNQKiF2O8 Born on this day in 1883 composer and conductor Alfredo Casella. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWK9eA9X3AQ Born on this day in 1894 soprano Yvonne Printemps. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGU26LPAf78 Born on this day in 1895 soprano Maria Zamboni. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=skcEAK8CYSo Born on this day in 1930 contralto Maureen Forrester. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdsVfbm5hbQ
2015-09-09 23:09:08
Wagner's sketch for the Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin is for sale , at the heady price of $3.6 million. According to the listing offered by the seller, the manuscript was presented by Siegfried Wagner to a friend. It would be interesting to know who received this rather lavish gift. More: The invaluable Matthew Guerrieri advises that more information can be found in a footnote to John Deathridge's essay on the Lohengrin drafts in Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker's collection Analyzing Opera. This same Bridal Chorus manuscript went up for sale at Sotheby's in 1988; it seems that Siegfried Wagner gave it to an Italian friend, "Signor Zamboni."
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