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Thoughts on La Gioconda: Tebaldi
Renata Tebaldi had one major advantage over Milanov and Callas (and most other sopranos): she was Italian. The post appeared first on parterre box.
2024-03-15 18:14:57
They Lived for Their Art — The First Ladies of Opera: Callas, Tebaldi, and Milanov (Part Two), ‘The Cream of the Crop’
Renata Tebaldi and her so-called “dimples of steel” (Photo: Decca Records) Verdi, Puccin
2021-11-05 17:43:00
Princeton Symphony Orchestra. Rossen Milanov, conductor; Shai Wosner, piano. November 4, 2021.
[…] is a small ensemble; tonight there were fewer than 40 players, and I venture to guess they don’t have four horns in their regular roster. In the relative confines of the Matthews Theatre, it sounds fine, with a few notable exceptions. Evan Williams (b. 1988) is now composer-in-residence at the Detroit Symphony. Loosely quoting the Program Notes, the piece was commissioned by “the activist orchestra” The Dream Unfinished for their 2017 season “Raise Your Hand.” Milanov talked about how the piece describes “the school-to-prison” pipeline as an example of a dream deferred, and how the music devolves from hope to despair. So those words set my expectation. The music is not complicated, although (per David) the string players sometimes would bow in different directions. I was trying to listen for this “hope to despair” procession and frankly didn’t hear it; there was little hope at the beginning. Since my teen […]
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