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2021-09-26 14:05:58
Anglais - Ariadne auf Naxos at Liceu: Josep Pons’ Good Strauss
Liceu opened its 175th season with Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, an opera that has rarely been seen at the theatre and which had not been brought on stage for almost 20 years. Written for a moderately sized orchestra and with a transparent yet dense orchestration of refined sonorities, Ariadne is a difficult opera to resolve instrumentally. Maestro Josep Pons, the theatre’s principal director chose to face the challenge of conducting this Ariadne and the obtained results were optimum. The orchestra delivered very well in a very demanding piece. The other challenge in conducting this opera is the significant complexity in bringing together the voices and the orchestra. Despite some adjustments, this aspect too was successfully managed by Pons. Ariadne auf Naxos, Festival d'Aix en Provence 2018 (c) Bertrand LangloisAriadne auf Naxos, Festival d'Aix en Provence 2018 (c) Bertrand Langlois The vocal demands of this title are […]
2021-08-25 10:34:45
City of Derry International Choir Festival 2021
[…] Eoghan Desmond, whilst the American ensemble Chanticleer will be presenting a live Zoom workshop and a bespoke recorded concert. There will be school performances with a non-competitive format for primary years encouraging children and teachers to take part in the fun and community-spirited Primary Big Sing event on Thursday 21 October including a workshop led by music education expert Lucinda Geoghegan and a specially composed piece for young voices by Catalan composer and conductor, Josep Vila i Casañas. Post-primary schools will return for a day of competitions and a senior Big Sing on Friday 22 October. The Festival is also hopeful that choirs throughout the island of Ireland will return for a day of competitions in various categories including mixed voice, equal voice, youth, sacred, pop, jazz and gospel, culminating in the brand-new Choir of the Festival competition. Full details from the festival's website.
2021-01-28 20:42:51
Anglais - A Magnificent Recycled Hoffmann at Gran Teatre del Liceu
[…] this. Conductor Riccardo Frizza’s very professional work ensured orchestral precision with meticulous detail in the entries and also balanced the orchestra with the voices as well as the voices amongst themselves with notable efficacy. His version of Les contes d’Hoffmann is quite solid. Xavier Pujol (Barcelona, 25th January 2021) Les contes d’Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach. Elena Sancho Pereg, soprano, Olga Pudova, soprano. Ermonela Jaho, soprano. Nino Surguladze, mezzosoprano. Marina Viotti, mezzosoprano. Laura Vila, mezzosoprano. John Osborn, tenor. Aleksander Vinogradov, bass. Francisco Vas, tenor. Alexey Bogdanov, baritone. Carlos Daza, baritone. Orchestra of Gran Teatre del Liceu. Choir of Gran Teatre del Liceu. Riccardo Frizza, conductor. Laurent Pelly, stage director and costumes. Agathe Mélinand, dramaturgy and libretto version. Chantal Thomas, scenography. Joël Adam, lighting. Production by Gran Teatre del Liceu, Opéra National de Lyon, San Francisco Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin.
2021-01-12 07:30:01
Virtuosity and Protest: Frederic Rzewski's Songs of Insurrection receives its first recording
[…] yet the song (with different words) also became a rallying cry for anti-Fascist Italian partisans The spiritual, Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'round which developed into a freedom anthem of the American civil rights movement in the 1960s Irish Republicans fighting for Irish independence used The Foggy Dew, not the English folk-song but a song about the 1916 Easter Uprising with a melody based on a traditional Irish song Zeca Alfonso's 1971 song Grandola, Vila Morena, which had been banned by the Portuguese regime, was broadcast on 25 April 1974 as a sign to begin the pro-democracy Carnation Revolution in Portual During the Spanish Civil War the song Los Cuatro Generales, which was based on a popular version of a song by Federico Garcia Lorca, vowed fearless resistance to Fascist attacks The oldest song in this list, Oh Bird, Oh Bird, Oh Roller arose with the Gabo Peasant […]
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