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singer (1904-1992)
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- coloratura soprano
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- Romania, United States of America
- opera singer
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2024-04-20 12:00:26
The week in classical: Roman Fever/ The Human Voice; NYO, National Youth Brass Band; Celebrating Sir Neville Marriner – review
Susie Sainsbury theatre; Royal Festival Hall; St Martin-in-the-Fields, LondonPegasus Opera sparks change with a tart two-hander and a woman on the edge; teenage brass players show their mettle; and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields do their founder proudAs a scenario for a chamber opera, try this: two women of “ripe but well-cared-for middle age” (an enviable condition) reminisce as old friends but soon reveal themselves bitter rivals, each harbouring a shocking secret. Edith Wharton’s featherlight short story Roman Fever (1934) can nearly be lifted straight from the page to make a crisp two-hander libretto. The American composer Philip Hagemann (b.1932) did just that in his 1989 opera, set to lush, singable, musical theatre-style music. Wharton’s words remain intact, the levity of the conversation exposed as bitchiness exemplified.Roman Fever was presented as part of a stylish double bill with Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine (sung in English as The […]
2024-04-16 02:59:04
This episode presents an overview of major works by award-winning composer duo Roman Grygoriv and Il
2024-04-11 06:53:00
A little bit of magic: Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories sung one to a part at the original pitch by I Fagiolini and Robert Hollingworth
[…] highly dramatic! We are have been having similar discussions about Victoria's Requiem and Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 where the original, when correctly performed, eschews the dramatic use of extremes of register and ensures that all singers have a part firmly in the centre of the voice to subtle yet highly expressive effect.Victoria wrote the Tenebrae Responsories in Rome where they were published in 1585. Whilst in Rome he had various official positions at the German College and Pontifical Roman Seminary and in 1575, Victoria was appointed Maestro di Capella at S. Apollinare. Quite what line-up of singers these institutions used for their services I am not sure, but we can imagine them following the Sistine Chapel and using single voices with a castrato on the top line. On this disc on the Coro label, Robert Hollingworth directs I Fagiolini in Victoria's Tenebrae Responsories recorded just one voice to a part by Rebecca Lea – soprano, Martha McLorinan […]
2024-03-27 08:09:00
Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] city of Norwich at the University of East Anglia - got the better of his greedy brother, Fasolt (Matthew Rose) - brothers in crime only! - by the help of a handgun. Another bullet to the head and another nod to Frank Castorf, too, while Anna Kissjudit delivered an impeccable and forthright performance as Erda. Of the more junior roles, South African-born tenor, Siyabonga Maqungo, was heard to extremely good effect as Froh while Roman Trekel made a strong impression in the companion role of Donner. Siegfried - Staatsoper Berlin, 2022 (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)Providing an idyllic setting for the preparation of the Gods' journey to Valhalla, the courtyard of ESCHE provided the departure lounge with the contingent of the heavenly-bound passengers seen happily sitting comfy on circular benches surrounding a mature flowering tree, a representation, maybe, of the World Ash Tree. Who knows? Tcherniakov? Anyhow, it was one […]
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