Oskar Ekberg News
Swedish classical pianist
- piano
- classical music
- Sweden
- musician, pianist
streaming
Last update
2024-03-22
Refresh
2022-08-02 07:30:00
Handel’s Alcina - a ‘first’ for Glyndebourne - joins other great Handel gems in the company’s repertoire such as Ariodante, Giulio Cesare, Rinaldo and Theodora
[…] of demolition to make way for large-scale office development. The show running at the club is aptly named ‘L’isola d’Alcina’. How cheesy is that! And the club’s hostess is none other than Alcina with Ms Archibald looking the part from head to toe. A brunette sporting a long-flowing hair style and a fitting costume to match (elegantly designed by Italian-born designer, Alessio Rosati) she came over as a Fifties-style movie star echoing to a degree Anita Ekberg, the star of Federic Fellini’s iconic Sixties movie, La dolce vita. Hey, mambo, mambo italiano! Although Ms Archibald made a big impression on the show overall her sorceress sister, Morgana (sung so eloquently and delicately by Soraya Mafi) made a big impression, too, especially on her entry in the first act dressed as a mermaid lying on a high-moving gantry-type platform operated by a four-person stage team. The scene was quite remarkable and visually quite […]
This source is no longer available. The following article is not online anymore.
ArtsJournal: music
2019-08-08 12:03:23
Tourists Are No Longer Allowed To Sit On Rome’s Spanish Steps
If they do, they can get €400 tickets. And if they try to wade in the Trevi Fountain the way Anita Ekberg did in La Dolce Vita? €450. Those guys in centurion costumes who pose with tourists at the Colosseum are now forbidden, and there are plenty of other new rules “intended to ‘guarantee decorum, […]
2017-03-06 15:23:44
[…] Jan Risberg. Jonatan also enjoys playing in various chamber groups as well as performing as a soloist. In 2012 his guitar duo Bougt & Bergek was given a scholarship by the Music Conservatoire of Espirito Santo (FAMES) which led to recitals in the XIX Winter Music Festival of Domingos Martins and Centro Cultural Justicia Federal, Rio de Janeiro and performances on Brazilian TV-Gazeta. Other projects include work with singers such as Tobias Bennsten and Peter Ekberg Pelz, and most recently his duo with RCM pianist Irena Radić, with whom he creates new and innovative arrangements for guitar and piano. The guitar and piano duo recently won the second price in the chamber music competition at Twents Guitar Festival, Netherlands. Prior to coming to London, Jonatan studied with Bo Hansson at Södra Latins Gymnasium’s Professional Musician Programme. His studies there were supported by the Royal Academy of Music in Sweden and […]
2015-02-03 14:18:42
Mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home
On this day in 1960 La Dolce Vita, directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg, premiered in Italy. Born on this day in 1809 composer Felix Mendelssohn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nse_MBXyeqI Born on this day in 1887 writer Gertrude Stein http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltl05FEIxPs Born on this day in 1904 composer Luigi Dallapiccola http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4C81weF198 Born on this day in 1927 soprano Claire Watson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUdEkQlhdHA
or
- timeline: Performers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): E...