Walter Berry News
Austrian opera singer (1929–2000)
- bass-baritone
- classical music
- Austria
- opera singer, university teacher
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2023-12-31 18:04:00
Over at Boulezian, Mark Berry has a summary of his operatic year, and after reading it, I decided to do one myself. In the process, I discovered that three operas never made it onto the list of operas I've seen, so, I'm particularly glad to have gone through this exercise. Here's what I saw in 2023, in alphabetical order by composer.Aa, van der, Blank OutBates, The Revolution of Steve JobsBritten, The Rape of LucretiaDavis, The Life and Times of Malcolm X (Met HD)Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande (Two productions, superb in every way at LA Opera, a muddled production at Santa Fe)Dvořák, RusalkaFrank, El último sueño de Frida y DiegoGiddens and Abel, OmarMartinez, Cruzar la Cara de la LunaMonteverdi, L'OrfeoMonteverdi, L'incoronazione di PoppeaMoravec, The ShiningOh, The EmissaryPuccini, Madama ButterflyReagon and Reagon, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the SowerSaariaho, Adriana MaterSchoenberg, ErwartungShearer, Prospero's GhostStrauss, Die Frau ohne SchattenStravinsky, The NightingaleVerdi, Il TrovatoreVerdi, FalstaffWagner, Die Fliegende HollanderWagner, LohengrinWallen, Dido's […]
2023-10-30 07:40:00
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2023-10-02 10:00:45
On this day in 1966 baritone Walter Berry made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Barak
2023-07-06 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 54 (CD Reviews)
[…] lacks energy, for it certainly does not. This is simply very good, straightforward, well-played, and excellently recorded Tchaikovsky. Good stuff. Beethoven: The Late Quartets. (CD1) String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 127; No. 14 in C-Sharp Minor; (CD2) No. 13 in B-Flat Major, Op. 130; Grosse Fugue in B-Flat Major, Op. 133; Finale, Allegro (Op. 130, replacement finale); (CD3) No. 15 in A-Minor, Op. 132; No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135. Calidore String Quartet (Jeffrey Myers & Ryan Meehan, violins; Jeremy Berry, viola; Estelle Choi, cello). Signum Classics SIGCD733It is certainly natural to be skeptical when encountering yet another boxed set of the late Beethoven quartets; however, it is tempting to become cynical. I will freely confess to being a skeptical sort of person, and I’m sure any attorney worth his hire could find plenty of character witnesses willing to testify to that under oath. And although there have been days when my prayers not to […]
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