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13h ago
Streaming and discussion begin at 7:55 PM EDT.
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Parterre Box
13h ago
In it I recognized the larger construction of musical scenes (and even the wholesale recycling of tunes from within the same work). It implanted in me the understanding of accompanied recitative (and there’s a lot of it in Evita). Juan Perón’s introduction of his wife on the balcony at the top of Act Two could have been written by Stravinsky (and probably was, knowing Mr. Lloyd Webber’s fondness for cribbing plus he had the formidable Hershy Kay as his orchestrator). Although its musical language isn’t necessarily sophisticated, it planted the germs that later brought me to love masterworks l ..read more
Parterre Box
18h ago
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Born on this day in 1857 composer Ruggero Leoncavallo
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbdT6SbPY5s
Born on this day in 1928 performer and diplomat Shirley Temple
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L8aRx5oa1c
On this day in 1963 the Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick musical She Loves Me opened on Broadway (302 performances)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjRhvf-w8TE
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Parterre Box
2d ago
Mack’s stage career in the fifteen years or so since she graduated from the Merola program has steadily traversed the bread-and-butter mezzo repertoire through Rossini, though with a special focus on the music of Handel and a healthy dose of rarities. My most recent encounter with the singer was in Rossini’s Otello at Opera Philadelphia, where she did much to anchor what might have been merely a pleasing curiosity with an intense, dramatically grounded take on (the other) Desdemona.
She has only appeared at the Met in one production to date (debuting as the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka, though it l ..read more
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2d ago
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On this day in 1926 Wozzeck composed by Manfred Gurlitt premiered in Bremen (four months after Alban Berg‘s)
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lNOpWtAzII
Birthday anniversaries of playwright and novelist Henry Fielding (1707),
composer Juan Vert (1890),
contralto Kathleen Ferrier (1912),
and bass-baritone Franz Mazura (1924)
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Parterre Box
3d ago
Streaming and discussion begin at 2:00 PM EDT.
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Parterre Box
3d ago
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Birthday anniversaries of composer Randall Thompson (1899),
conductor and composer Bruno Maderna (1920),
bass-baritone Bengt Rundgren (1931),
and soprano Suzanne Sarroca (1927)
Happy 71st birthday soprano Jill Feldman
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4d ago
Streaming and discussion begin at 1:00 PM EST.
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Parterre Box
4d ago
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwZg83ob1GM
Nine performances and that was all.
Birthday anniversaries of baritone Josef Herrmann (1903) and tenor Giovanni Malipiero (1906)
Happy 81st birthday conductor John Eliot Gardiner
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4d ago
Streaming and discussion begin at 7:25 PM EDT.
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