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2023-01-04 18:25:00
The School of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta seeks to hire a Director of Orchestral Studies at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to begin in the 2023-24 academic year
The School of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta seeks to hire a Director of Orchestral Studies at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to begin in the 2023-24 academic year. This position also comes with an endowed chair—the Charles Thomas Wurm Distinguished Professorship—and is expected to play a central role in the […]
All the conducting master class
2022-12-01 13:55:00
School of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta seeks to hire a Director of Orchestral Studies at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor
The School of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta seeks to hire a Director of Orchestral Studies at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to begin in the 2023-24 academic year. This position also comes with an endowed chair—the Charles Thomas Wurm Distinguished Professorship—and is expected to play a central role in the […]
2020-02-17 08:02:25
Welcome rarity: Verdi's Luisa Miller receives a strong musical performance in Barbora Horáková's new production at ENO
[…] Soloman Howard - English National Opera ( © Tristram Kenton) For the new production of Verdi's Luisa Miller at the London Coliseum (seen 15 February 2020), English National Opera invited the young Czech director Barbora Horáková, and drew together a strong cast with Elizabeth Llewellyn making a welcome appearance in the UK as Luisa, David Junghoon Kim as Rodolfo, Olafur Sigurdarson as Miller (his ENO debut), James Creswell as Count Walter, Soloman Howard as Wurm, Christine Rice as Federica and Nadine Benjamin as Laura. Sets were by Andrew Lieberman with costumes by Eva-Maria Van Acker, choreography by James Rosental, lighting by Michael Bauer. Alexander Joel conducted. The translation was by Martin Fitzpatrick. Barbora Horáková was a finalist and prizewinner at the Ring Award Graz in 2017 and received the Best Newcomer Award at the 2018 International Opera Awards. We caught her production of Verdi's early comedy Un giorno […]
2020-02-16 20:31:16
Anglais - Strong Singing but Questionable Staging: Luisa Miller at the London Coliseum
Luisa Miller is not one of Verdi’s total rarities, but it does not grace major opera houses with anywhere near the same frequency as his most popular creations. The work, however, has much merit as, for example, Act II ends with an allegro in three mounting stages that, although quickening towards an animated finish, is not like a conventional stretta. Written in 1849, it is regarded as coming at the beginning of the composer’s ‘middle period’, with Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata all premiering within the next four years. Based on Schiller’s play Kabale und Liebe of 1784, it sees the humble Luisa, daughter of Miller, love a man who she does not realise is the aristocratic Rodolfo. His father is Count Walter, who is determined Rodolfo should marry his niece, Federica, Duchess of Ostheim, while his steward Wurm also wants this outcome because he loves Luisa himself. Wurm blackmails Luisa into agreeing to marry him, and swearing to make Rodolfo genuinely believe she does […]
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