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Colombian composer (1882-1945)
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2021-07-19 09:18:39
We can dream: Bayreuth Baroque Festival 2021
One of the reasons that Richard Wagner built his festival theatre in Bayreuth was because he had been recommended the town because it was the home of Germany's largest theatre, the Margravial Opera House built by Frederick the Great's sister Wilhelmine in 1748, with an interior designed by the Italian theatre-design family of Bibiena, father and son. Performances had effectively ceased after Wilhelmine's death in 1758, which is why the theatre is so well preserved. Wagner barely used the theatre, it was not suited to his purposes, but restored in 2018 the theatre forms a superb backdrop for Baroque opera. The Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, under artistic director Max Emanuel Cencic, and the festival is returning this year for a second edition from 1-12 September 2021. There will be another chance to see Cencic's production of Nicola Porpora's opera Carlo il Calvo with Franco Fagioli, Max Emanuel […]
2021-07-07 09:12:41
More than just a film composer: Nino Rota's viola sonatas at Sands Films Music Room
Like many 20th-century film composers, Nino Rota has suffered the curse of having his non-film music (of which there is a significant quantity) disappear behind his film scores. Yes, he wrote music for The Godfather, La Strada and 148 other film scores, but there are also 11 operas, three symphonies, concertos and much much more. And two viola sonatas, one dating from the 1930s and the other from 1945, and there is a chance to hear these later this month, when Lorena Canto (viola) and Yvain Calvo (piano) perform them at Sands Films Music Room on 15 July 2021. Rota was a child prodigy and composed his first opera when he was eleven. Encouraged by Arturo Toscanini he studied at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia in the 1930s before returning to Milan where he graduated from the University in 1937. This is the period of the first viola sonata. Then during […]
2021-04-15 07:49:05
Now a well-established on-line concert series, Sands Films created The Music Room in their film studio as a response to 2020's lack of performances for artists
[…] performance tradition which often separates them from their audience. They hope to keep developing the concert series in this way, but eventually want to be able to give each artist the choice of having a reduced audience present during the stream.The first concerts in The Music Room were done as a collaboration between musicians living in the area. After months of being deprived of a stage to perform on Lorena Cantó Woltèche, viola and Yvain Calvo Caballero, piano, opened the series in July of 2020 reaching thousands of viewers from all over the world live from the theatre at the Sands Films Studios.Although Sands Films pays all musicians a recording session fee, the streaming from The Music Room is always supplied free in order to be available and accessible to all, including people just curious but open to discovery, with donations requested from the audience, very much as a kind […]
2020-12-22 16:19:45
La sonnambula
From the Vienna State Opera, Juan Diego Flórez, Daniela Fally and Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Guillermo García Calvo.
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