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Swiss composer and choir director (1820-1867)
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2024-03-07 16:26:45
Flood/Tarandek/Baumgartner/Simon(Bastille Musique, three CDs)Although best known for his completion of Turandot, Alfano is well worth exploring, as this set of songs revealsIn his lifetime, Franco Alfano (born in 1875), was a significant figure in Italian music, highly regarded for his operas, orchestral and chamber music and songs. Nowadays, however, he is remembered mainly for his completion of Turandot; a shortened version of the ending he provided for
2022-11-17 22:35:00
[…] previously appeared at Michigan Opera Theatre as a Studio Artist in the 2019–20 season where he made his company and role debuts as Rinuccio in a double bill of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Michael Ching's Buoso's Ghost. He made his Seattle Opera debut in 2018 as Robbins in Porgy and Bess and appeared at The Glimmerglass Festival as a Young Artist in 2019 as Policeman 2 in the world premiere of Blue and 2017 as Peter in Porgy and Bess and Fred in Oklahoma! In the 2017–18 season, Graves was a Baumgartner Studio Artist at Florentine Opera where he performed roles in The Merry Widow, John Blow’s Venus and Adonis/Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and The Magic Flute. Graves is a 2022 San Francisco District winner of the Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition. Graves received his Performer Diploma and Master of Music in Voice Performance from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. He received his Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Towson University. Sponsored by Karin Eames Mikayla Sager(Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)Canadian soprano Mikayla Sager joined […]
2022-07-17 19:45:56
In a 1970 overview of Beethoven Diabelli Variations recordings, my late colleague Harris Goldsmith divided the performances into three basic categories: One strives for large-scale drama, structural unity, and cumulative momentum (i.e. Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Serkin); another treats each variation as a separate structural and emotional entity (Paul Baumgartner, Hans Richter-Haaser); the third focuses on […]
2022-03-21 13:48:02
Jan Vogler (Photo Stephan Floss) After two years when the festival operated either online or in mixed mode with smaller-scale live concerts, the Dresden Music Festival is back this year with a large-scale event including several visiting orchestras. From 11 May to 10 June 2022, the festival will be presenting over 60 concerts in and around Dresden celebrating the 45th Dresden Music Festival. The festival's opening concert is the period instrument Dresden Festival Orchestra, conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Mozart's overture to Die Zauberflöte and Symphony No. 40, plus Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor' with soloist Jan Liesecki on forte-piano. And the festival orchestra will be closing the festival as well when David Robertson conducts more Beethoven, the Choral Fantasy and Symphony No. 9 with soloists Martin Helmchen (piano), Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (mezzo-soprano), Christian Elsner (tenor), and René Pape (bass). Two concerts celebrate historical Dresden connections. The Dresden Baroque Orchestra will be […]
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