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2023-10-05 04:00:00
Fairest Isle: A New National Songbook (Peter Holman, The Parlay of Instruments)
2023-06-12 20:46:00
Leipzig Opera. Handel's Giulio Cesare. June 11, 2023.
Leipzig Oper. Opernhaus Saal, Leipzig. Parkett links (Row 14-33, 56 euros).Selfie taken at intermission. We have know David and Vivian since our Cornell days in the 1970s.Story. See previous post.Ruben Dubrovsky - Conductor. Giulio Cesare - Yuriy Mynenko, Cornelia - Ulrike Schneider, Sesto - Kathrin Goring, Cleopetra - Olga Jelinkova, Tolomeo - Remy Bres, Achilla - Franz Xavier Schlecht/Matthias Hoffmann.While Bach Fest continues in Leipzig, Handel Festival is happening in the nearby town of Halle. Tonight's opera was also part of the Handel Festival. We enjoyed very much our encounter with the opera about 10 years ago at the Met, so were looking forward to this event.Unfortunately the performance didn't have English surtitles, and despite having read the synopsis, having seen the opera before, and having David explain to us the plot, we were quite lost during the close-to-three hours of music and acting. Things on stage do not unfold […]
2023-05-06 21:39:00
[…] is based on Stephen King's famous novel; this is a new production, co-produced with Hawai'i Opera Theatre and Portland Opera. Opera Parallèle's Daniel Harvey spoke with Moravec and Campbell by Zoom about the opera, which is closer to the novel than the equally famous Kubrick film and which sounds like it'll be great. You can watch the interview recording at OP's web site.Performance information:June 2, 2023 @ 7:30pmJune 3, 2023 @ 7:30pmJune 4, 2023 @ 2pmBlue Shield of California Theater at YBCA – 700 Howard St, San FranciscoRunning Time: 2 hours 20 mins with intermission – performed in English with supertitles.Tickets: $40-$180, students $20.
2022-10-10 21:27:00
One never knows when and how a musical work might cross one's path.A few years ago, some back and forth with friends about music in quintuple meter led me to a virtual obsession with a little fugue by the little-known Anton Reicha.Last year, encounters with an unusual hymn from the 1970s by another little-known composer turned into a series of experiments in creating virtual performances of a hazy hymn tune.Eleven years ago, I walked into a hall to hear a young chamber orchestra rehearsing and fell in love with four minutes of a string symphony by a 12-year-old Mendelssohn, leading to this extended analysis.More than twenty years ago, a snowstorm cancelled a rehearsal which led me to create some synthesized practice materials which I later converted into thirty minutes of slo-mo Schoenberg.You never know.Now if, out of the blue, you'd told me the Italian/American composer Gian Carlo Menotti had written […]
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