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former theatre and opera house in Vienna, Austria
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2021-11-02 09:38:49
Beethoven’s Fidelio at Glyndebourne with Dorothea Herbert and Adam Smith
Beethoven: Fidelio - Adam Smith - Glyndebourne on Tour (© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith Beethoven Fidelio; Dorothea Herbert, Adam Smith, Gertrude Thoma, Callum Thorpe, Carrie-Ann Williams, Gavan Ring, dir: Frederic Wake-Walker, cond: Ben Glassberg; Glyndebourne on Tour at Glyndebourne Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 29 October 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Strong performances and a radical rethink to the dramaturgy as Frederic Wake-Walker's production finally makes it to the stageOriginally entitled Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe (Leonore or The Triumph of Marital Love), Beethoven’s three-act opera Fidelio, set to a German libretto, was prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from a text by French playwright, Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. Written at the time of the French Revolution, the première took place at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20th November 1805 during the French occupation of Beethoven’s beloved Austria.A troublesome work for sure, Fidelio - a […]
2018-04-25 16:12:38
I listened this morning to Mozart’s aria for soprano, piano and orchestra which is one of his most sublime compositions. The singer was Christine Karg, who performed this music beautifully. “Ch’io mi scordi di te? … Non temer, amato bene” (Will I forget you? … Fear not, beloved), K. 505, is a concert aria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for soprano, piano obbligato and orchestra, composed in December 1786 in Vienna. This work was written for Nancy Storace, probably for her farewell concert from Vienna on Friday, 23 February 1787 at the Theater am Kärntnertor. Mozart himself very likely played the
2017-01-26 17:45:22
Franz Asplmayr was born in 1728 and lived to be 58 years old. Born in Linz, Austria, he studied violin with his father initially and was mainly self-taught in composition. He was a prolific composer of ballets, symphonies, chamber music. Influenced by composers of the Mannheim School, Asplmayer combined techniques with the developing Viennese style. During his life time he met both Haydn (in 1760) and Mozart (in the 1780s). He moved to Vienna in the late 1740s. In 1759 he started serving in the Imperial court. He started as a secretary and violinist and eventually took over the duties of Christoph Willibald Gluck, the ballet composer for the Kärntnertortheater. When this position finished, Asplmayr composed for Jean Georges Noverre’s ballet troupe. We will be treated to one of his quartets with the Eybler Quartet on February 16, 2017 in Toronto. Join us to hear Quartet in D Major, Op.2 […]
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