Pietro Magri News
Italian organist and choir director (1873-1937)
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- organist, choir director, composer, musicologist
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2024-04-26
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Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2024-02-16 18:28:30
[…] – self-involved and determined, heedless of her partner, wonderfully unsupported.Mthuthuzeli November has made a splash with his work for Ballet Black. Ballet diversity being what it is, a predominantly white cast delivers For What It’s Worth, inspired by singer Miriam Makeba (“Mama Africa”). It’s glowingly lit in burnt umber, costumed in rich green, blue and orange. November co-created the score with Alex Wilson, and his satisfyingly full-fat movement pulses through an ensemble led by Mayara Magri with lavish, wheeling arms, percussive handclaps and delicately fluting wrists.The only dud for me was the last piece, Jessica Lang’s relentlessly winsome Twinkle. Kate Shipway’s piano, high on a platform, is silhouetted beside a metallic light, a planet in scrunched silver and gold. Set to a Brahms lullaby and Mozart’s variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, it’s a skippity piece of sugary smiles and cute stylings (high fives, swimming arms).
2022-03-19 04:18:00
JoAnn Falletta to Conduct Three World Premiere PerformancesThe Buffalo Philharmonic led by JoAnn Falletta will perform three world premieres commissioned by the orchestra this Spring at Kleinhans Music Hall in Buffalo, New York: Kenneth Fuchs’s Point of Tranquility (Sat. Mar. 19 & Sun. Mar. 20), inspired by abstract expressionism; Russell Platt’s Symphony in Three Movements (For Clyfford Still), (Sat. Apr. 23 & Sun. Apr. 24), a musical interpretation of abstract impressionist works by Still that hang in Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Wang Jie’s The Winter that United Us (Sat. June 11), celebrating the City of Buffalo. The BPO opened the season in September with the world premiere of Daren Hagen’s Bandana Overture.Falletta, who has garnered international praise as an advocate of new and lesser-known music, has introduced over five hundred works by American composers, including well over 100 world premieres. She remarks “Orchestral music is a beautiful continuum, stretching back over three […]
2020-06-28 10:17:27
A Life on-Line: Otello in Birmingham, Wagner's villa at Grange Park Opera, and an immersive, genderswapping Midsummer Night's Dream
[…] We ended with two items from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess sung by Malaba and Rangwanasha. Conducting and accompanist honours were shared between Antonio Pappano, Patrick Milne and Edmund Whitehead. For dance we had the moving simplicity of a duet from Kenneth Macmillan's Concerto with Fumi Kaneko and Reece Clarke, to the slow movement of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto with piano soloist Kate Shipway, and a duet from Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour with Mayara Magri and Matthew Ball, dancing to music by Ezio Bosso. And we also heard the second movement of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D minor, op.49, with Vasko Vassilev (violin), Christopher Vanderspar (cello), Antonio Pappano (piano). Still at the Royal Opera House, but more out and about, musicians from the orchestra recorded Ravel's Bolero, to dance from the dancers in home and found locations to create a lovely video. [Instagram]. I remember one of […]
2019-02-16 07:06:00
Opera Australia – Puccini’s La Boheme. February 8, 2019.
Joan Sutherland Theatre at Sydney Opera House. Circle (Seat E8, A$167.) Story. See previous blog. Conductor – Nicolas Milton. Mimi – Joyce El-Khoury, Rodolfo – Ivan Magri, Marcello – Samuel Dundas, Musetta – Julie Lea Goodwin. For this year’s trip to Australia, we started at Brisbane, and flew down to Sydney on Friday February 8 in the morning. A few days before we left the USA, I bought three tickets to this opera, asking Tim and Whitney to come along. I found out afterwards that I had seen this with Tim and Alyson in 2013, but had little recollection of it. Tim also forgot all about it. Comparing the cast members for the two performances, the only common one was Samuel Dundas singing the role of Marcello. My blog entry on the 2013 performance was quite minimal, but it was generally […]
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