Robin de Raaff News
Dutch composer
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- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- composer, university teacher
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2018-05-05 06:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, May 5, 2018
[…] Festival concert at 1 PM, the day includes a performance by a 16-member Los Angeles Master Chorale Chamber Ensemble in Walt Disney Concert Hall conducted by Associate Conductor Jenny Wong at 11 AM. This performance is a professional showcase for the students and is also open to the public. Tickets are required for this free event and can be reserved at lamasterchorale.org. --Jennifer Scott, LA Master ChoraleViolinist Tosca Opdam Makes Weill Debut in Robin de Raaff World Premiere Dutch violinist Tosca Opdam will make her debut in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall presented by EBF Classics on June 4, 2018 at 8pm with a program exploring the theme of "home." The centerpiece of the evening is the world premiere of Robin de Raaff's North Atlantic Light, commissioned by and dedicated to Opdam and inspired by Willem de Kooning's 1977 painting of the same name. Accompanied by pianist Victor Stanislavsky, she […]
2015-12-16 16:39:29
Aikin/Duesing/Randle/Tessier/Belcher/ Netherlands CO/Sloane (Challenge Classics, two CDs)Robin de Raaff’s opera, first performed by the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam in 2012, is the latest music-theatre work to be based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. It’s easy to understand composers’ fascination with one of the iconic figures from the second half of the 20th century, and the gallery of celebrities with whom her life was enmeshed during the 1950s and early 60s. But bringing that rich tapestry to life on the operatic stage is not straightforward.In Waiting for Miss Monroe, De Raaff and his librettist Janine Brogt concentrate on the last few months of the star’s life in 1962, including her famous appearance at President Kennedy’s birthday party, the problems surrounding her final film, and her lonely death, when she is confronted by memories of her former self, Norma Jean, and rejected by all the men who formerly worshipped her. De […]
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2014-10-28 13:15:34
'My pen is rude, and I am not refined': Mozart's letters
[…] for his Munich orchestra, and numerous very direct (if not always flattering) assessments of his singers. The castrato Vincenzo del Prato , who created the role of Idamante, comes in line for much vented wrath: 'He is incapable of singing even the introduction to any air of importance, and his voice is so uneven!'; 'When Del Prato comes I must sing to him, for I have to teach him his whole part like a child'; 'Raaff [the tenor singing Idomeneo] and Del Prato […] are the most miserable actors that ever trod the stage'; 'The stumbling-block was Del Prato; the wretch can literally do nothing.' Luckily he seems to have got on better with the rest of the cast, particularly the Wendling sisters Dorothea (who sang Ilia) and Elisabeth (Elettra): 'Madame Dorothea Wendling […] insisted on hearing [her scena] played three times in succession'; ‘Lisel Wendling has also sung […]
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