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2021-01-02 12:39:52
On this day in 1913 soprano Frieda Hempel sang her second performance at the Metropolitan Opera, the Queen in Les Huguenots opposite Emmy Destinn, Enrico Caruso, Dinh Gilly, Léon Rothier and Adamo Didur.
2016-02-20 20:55:57
[…] Nashville Opera) When listeners wrote in with repeated queries as to when, if ever, The Pearl Fishers would be staged, the old Kentucky-born gentleman would grumble and squirm in his announcer’s chair before coming up with the answer. After much hemming and hawing and rifling of his notes, Mr. Robinson would measure his response: if an iconic cast comprised as it was, in 1916, of Enrico Caruso, Frieda Hempel, Giuseppe de Luca, and Léon Rothier, was incapable of turning The Pearl into a gem of the repertoire, how could anyone else hope to do so? Besides, all the best-known melodies are heard in Act I, indicating that nothing beyond that peak was worth bothering about. Oh, ye of little faith! This is one of those spurious wives’ tales that has been circulated around the opera for as long as I can remember. The main criticism, even in Bizet’s time, […]
2011-12-26 00:29:00
DECEMBER 26 Today in classical music history
Johann Georg PISENDEL 1687 Birth of German composer and violinist Johann Georg PISENDEL in Cadolzburg. d-Dresden, 25 NOV 1755. Per Monsiuer Pisendel -- Six Virtuoso Violin Sonatas of the Baroque. 1696 FP of Antonio Bononcini's opera Il Trionfo di Camilla in Naples. 1709 FP of Handel's opera Agrippina.at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo with much acclaim in Venice. CD-Handel - Agrippina / D. Jones, A. Miles, Ragin, Chance, Brown, J. P. Kenny, von Otter, EBS, Gardiner.1723 FP of J. S. Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 40 Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes and Magnificat in E-flat, on the 2nd Day of Christmas as part of Bach's first annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1723-24. 1724 FP of Bach's Sacred Cantata No. 121 Christum wir colleen loben schon on the 2nd Day of Christmas as part of Bach's second annual Sacred Cantata cycle in Leipzig 1724-25. 1725 FP of Bach's Sacred […]
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