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Italian soprano (1935-2020)
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2024-01-31 14:00:50
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A trio of live Bellini recordings featuring Mirella Freni, June Anderson, and Angela Meade in the title role
2023-09-29 10:00:29
On this day in 1965 soprano Mirella Freni and tenor Gianni Raimondi made their Metropolitan Opera debuts in La bohème.
2023-08-16 15:14:39
Lukas Foss and Emilio de' Cavalieri, 2023
[…] the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, and the Milwaukee Symphony. He also guest-conducted many European and American orchestras. Musicologists divide the development of Foss’s art into three phases: neo-classical; transitional, which was dominated by what he called “controlled improvisation,” and the third, experimental, even more improvisational, with more freedom given to the performer, and the forays into serialism. Let’s listen to two pieces, Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird for voice (mezzo-soprano RoseMarie Freni) and small ensemble from 1978, here; and, from 1967, unfortunately in a rather low-quality recording, his great Baroque Variations for Orchestra: I. On a Handel Larghetto, II. On a Scarlatti Sonata, III. On a Bach Prelude "Phorion" (here). The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra is led by the composer Lukas Foss, was one of the most interesting American composers, and we’ll come back to his art another time Italian composer Emilio de' Cavalieri was born in […]
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