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Polish-Israeli opera singer and hazzan (1889-1963)
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2024-03-07 09:28:01
[…] he didn’t know how much music he had left in him. The epilogue, the last 20 bars, is the most serene and profound music he ever wrote. It’s Britten’s requiem for not only himself, but for his life partner, Peter Pears,” says Leo Hussain, conducting this production for Welsh National Opera – the first time the company have staged the work.Mark Le Brocq sings Aschenbach, the role Britten wrote for Pears. The libretto adapts Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella and tells of an ageing writer suffering from creative block who goes south to Venice in search of inspiration. There he encounters and is transfixed by a beautiful young Polish boy, Tadzio. Venice meanwhile is in the grip of cholera and the city empties around Aschenbach as tourists flee the infected city. “It’s an exploration of the idea of beauty and passion and the intellectual versus the physical side of beauty and […]
2023-12-19 09:41:00
Nevill Holt refocuses as a multi-arts festival for 2024 under guest festival director James Dacre.
Plans have been announced for the 2024 festival at Nevill Holt with Nevill Holt Opera being refocused as the Nevill Holt Festival. Whilst music and the arts have always been a feature of the present incarnation of the Nevill Holt estate (bought and restored by David Ross in 2000 following years as a prep school), the performance presentation has undergone a number of incarnations. Initially a temporary theatre was created in the courtyard of the historic 17th century stables and opera seasons presented in collaboration with Wasfi Kani's Grange Park Opera. Then in 2013, a new company was launched, Nevill Holt Opera, with director Oliver Mears and conductor Nicholas Chalmers. In 2018 the temporary theatre was replaced by an award winning new one by architects Witherford Watson Mann and then in 2021 the festival was held in the open air [see my review of Mozart's Don Giovanni]. This year's festival had something of […]
2023-12-11 07:57:00
Opera & Democracy: Transatlantic Conversations & Concerts celebrating the centenary of the reopening of the Krolloper in Berlin
Krolloper in Berlin in 19302024 is the centenary of the reopening of the Krolloper in Berlin. It reopened in 1924 with a performance of Richard Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, as an offshoot of the Berlin State Opera, but under Otto Klemperer from 1927-1931 the Krolloper took on independent artistic significance, becoming a gathering space for the avant-garde as well as promoting the idea of inclusive and accessible opera. It was forced to close in 1931 and after the Reichstag fire in 1933 served as the seat of the last parliament – it was there that the Weimar Republic came to an end. Many Krolloper artists, including Otto Klemperer, were persecuted and forced into exile.The Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, the former residence of the Mann family in American exile and today an important German American cultural forum, is cooperating with renowned opera houses in Germany and partners in the USA to bring together […]
2023-10-13 00:00:00
Britten, Chausson, Debussy, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rubbra, SchuMann et al: Orchestral & Vocal Works (Malcolm Sargent et al)
[…] Ball [2'53]24 Nigel Westlake: Cudmirrah Fanfare [1'54]25 George Dreyfus: Rush [2'30]26 Bruce Smeaton: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith [2'47]27 Bizet: L'Arlésienne. Suite No. 1- Prélude28 Stuart Greenbaum: 90 Minutes Circling the Earth [5'09]29 Holst: The Planets, op.32: - IV. Jupiter. The Bringer of Jollity [7'11]30 Franz Lehar: Gold and Silver Waltz, op.79 [8'06]31 Johann Strauss II: Freikugeln, op.326 'Magic Bullets Polka' [2'27]Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley [01 - 21], Jean-Louis Forestier [22], Paul Mann [23], Philip Green [24], George Dreyfus [25], Bruce Smeaton [26], John Lanchberry [27], Brett Kelly [28], Malcolm Sargent [29] and Ola Rudner [30, 31]ABC Classics 476 6341 [recorded 1966 to 2007; issued 2007][digital download; flacs, cover and booklet scans]Recording venues: Robert Blackwood Hall, Monash University [01 - 21], Iwaki Studio, ABC Southbank Centre, Melbourne [22, 23,25], Allan Eaton Studios, Melbourne [26], South Melbourne Town Hall [27], Melbourne Town Hall [29], Arts Centre, Hamer Hall, […]
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