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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-08 18:08:24
Dance Music of the Germania Musical Society
[…] vocalist, Fortuneda Tadesca, and the hall was invariably filled to overflowing. It is a fact worth recording that at these twenty-two concerts the overture to “Midsummer Night’s Dream” was played entire fourty-four times, the audience in every instance insisting upon a repetition. The high-road to success was not at length reached, and despite the near approach of summer, engagements from other cities flowed in rapidly. Good, paying concerts were given in Lowell, Taunton, and New Bedford, directly following the Boston series; and even New York, which had so decidedly given the cold shoulder to this enterprise, now offered an engagement to play at “summer festivals” in Castle Garden. This offer was accepted, and by the end of the series summer had come in good earnest. About this time some of the more influential pioneer visitors at Newport had set about the project of making that resort a fashionable watering-place. Their […]
2024-01-09 07:48:00
Aldeburgh Festival at 75: festival regular, Tony Cooper reports
[…] witnessed a staging of Britten’s opera Albert Herring at the Jubilee Hall and the first performance of his cantata Saint Nicolas at the Parish Church with a trio of lectures delivered by E.M. Forster on George Crabbe, Tyrone Guthrie on theatre and Sir Kenneth Clark on East Anglian painters. Following the deaths of Britten and Pears the artistic direction fell to a coterie of musicians who knew both men well including conductors Philip Ledger and Steuart Bedford and composers Colin Matthews and Oliver Knussen. However, a big event in 2013 (Britten’s centenary year) centred on Peter Grimes which was miraculously and successfully staged on Aldeburgh beach with the festival then under the direction of Jonathan Reekie while his successor, Roger Wright, who has been at the crease enjoying a terrific innings for the past decade, retires after this festival. The 2019 festival presented the UK première of the chamber opera The Hunting Gun […]
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Coliseum, London Jake Heggie’s take on the heartwarming Christmas classic has a glittering, melodic score with a gift of a role for soprano Danielle de Niese as goofy guardian angel ClaraGeorge Bailey dreams of brushing the small-town dust of Bedford Falls off his feet and seeing the Parthenon and the Colosseum. Now Jake Heggie’s opera of It’s a Wonderful Life, premiered in Houston in 2016, has made it across the pond to the Coliseum, where its story of Christmas hope amid thwarted dreams seems pertinent as
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