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Give my regards to Carthage
[…] from noted Broadway composer Michael John LaChuisa. Unfortunately LaChiusa’s 20-minute trifle depicting the three fates debating Dido’s destiny proved an arid appetizer to be endured than savored. Set to the composer’s own labored doggerel, it opened with a convincingly baroque-ish prelude but soon MasterVoices’s 80 members were discussing Dido’s fate in a raucous chorus full of broad topical references including the inevitable Donald Trump slam. Dressed in drab work uniforms, Clark, Anna Christy and Sarah Mesko as Marta, Decima and Nona entered and began debating love’s destructive toll, particularly in the case of Dido’s short sad life. However, that discussion was soon overshadowed by Clark’s shtick of scissoring off bits of the enormous ball of red yarn which represented human life spans. Each snip occasioned a member of the chorus (really one of the evening’s dancers) to fall dead to the floor in an elaborate pratfall which brought forth gales […]
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CNY Café Momus
2015-07-21 02:30:27
July 18 Glimmerglass: Cato in Utica
[…] variation. This is a stark departure from Baroque performance practice prevalent during the infamous “reign of the singers” that culminated in opera reform around mid-century, led by Gluck. The present Ciccolini reconstruction provides a measure of his own ornamentations written into the da capo sections, but it is well to remember that the individual singers are obliged to provide their own. That’s why music colleges and conservatories give courses in Baroque Performance Practice. Sarah Mesko as Emilia (photo: Karli Cadel) The singing in this production was strong, if somewhat uneven. Sarah Mesko, performing the role of Pompey’s spiteful widow, Emilia, sang with an attractive mezzo that while lacking in projection captured and held the listener’s attention. She had a secure grasp of the top tones in her big aria of vengeance (Come invanoil mare irato), which Vivaldi had tailor-made for his singer (and presumed paramour) Anna Girò. Indeed, […]
All the conducting master class
2013-12-07 15:55:46
4th INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS FOR ORCHESTRA CONDUCTING led by prof. Ilona Meskó August 21 – 30 2014 Budapest With: MÁV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
4th INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS FOR ORCHESTRA CONDUCTING led by prof. Ilona Meskó August 21 – 30 2014 Budapest With: MÁV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA List of works: Tchaikovsky: Rococo VariationsWagner: Tristan und Izolde Prelude and LiebestodDvorak: 8th SymphonyBartók: ConcertoStravinsky: Rite of springAgenda:Lessons with piano accompaniment (4 pianists) and orchestra. Altogether 110 minutes with pianists and 75 minutes with orchestra are available for […]
All the conducting master class
2013-01-23 20:48:33
3rd INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS FOR ORCHESTRA CONDUCTING led by prof. Ilona Meskó August 21 – 30 2013 Budapest With: MÁV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
3rd INTERNATIONAL MASTERCLASS FOR ORCHESTRA CONDUCTING led by prof. Ilona Meskó August 21 – 30 2013 Budapest With: MÁV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA List of works: Kodály: Dances from Galánta Erkel: Hunyadi László overture Beethoven: Coriolan overture Verdi: La forza del destino overture Dvorak: Symphony No. 8. Liszt: Mefisto Waltz Agenda: Lessons with piano accompaniment (4 pianists) [...]
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