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Munich Opera Festival (1) - La fanciulla del West, 26 July 2019
Nationaltheater Images: Wilfried Hösl Minnie – Anja Kampe Dick Johnson – Brandon Jovanovich Jack Rance – John Lundgren Nick – Kevin Conners Ashby – Bálint Szabó Sonora – Tim Kuypers Tim – Manuel Günther Sid – Alexander Milev Bello – Justin Austin Harry – Galeano Salas Joe – Freddie De Tomasso Happy – Christian Rieger Jim Larkens – Norman Garrett Billy Jackrabbit – Oleg Davydov Wowkle – Noa Beinart Jake Wallace – Sean Michael Plumb José Castro – Oğucan Yilmaz Pony Express Rider – Ulrich Reß Andreas Dresen (director) Mathias Fischer-Dieskau (set designs) Sabine Greunig (costumes) Michael Bauer (lighting) Rainer Karlitschek, Lukas Leipfinger (dramaturgy) Bavarian State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Stellario Fagone) Bavarian State Orchestra James Gaffigan (conductor) Many Puccini cognoscenti will speak of La fanciulla del West as Puccini’s finest opera – or at least his most musically interesting. In […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-10-01 04:54:12
At the Carl Davydov International Cello Congress in Kobe (Japan), 2005.
2017-03-04 03:03:34
I have broad, perhaps somewhat eclectic taste in music. This is by accident rather than design. Most of the genres outside what gets airplay on popular radio I have luckily stumbled upon while on other paths. Our culture doesn’t really expose young people en masse to much more than current popular music, and that’s a shame. I feel like it’s a good idea to do my bit to mitigate our cultural musical myopia. Below are links to 31 works of classical music composed by artists born in March whose works I have enjoyed – one for each day of the month, plus links to other widely known composers and/or widely known compositions. Portrait of J S Bach by E. G. Haussmann You know their names: J S Bach Béla Bartók Frédéric Chopin Maurice Ravel Johann Strauss I (the […]
2015-06-01 10:18:46
I’ve had no problem listening to more music recently. Fortunately, I’ve been working at home as a translator so I can listen to music almost any time I want. As a result, I’ve discovered quite a few pieces new to me since my last post. I’ve still found a few unknown piano concertos and a lot of chamber music as well, of which I’ll soon post a bunch, but first I’d like to introduce my readers to excellent cello concertos. Since recordings by Casals, Rostropovicz, Piatigorsky, Jaqueline du Pré, or Lynn Harell, among other greats, have introduced the very best of the classical repertoire beyond the concert podiums and made it accessible for masses at home, this repertoire, quite like that of the piano, seems to be concentrated on a few outstanding pieces promoted by those cellists. I’m not saying that concertos like those of Elgar, Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, or […]
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