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2017-02-01 20:08:03
Wooden soldiers
MasterVoices (formerly The Collegiate Chorale), closes its 75th anniversary season with Victor Herbert’s Babes in Toyland on April 27, 2017 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall. The production will be conducted by MasterVoices’ Artistic Director Ted Sperling and will feature the MasterVoices chorus, Kelli O’Hara, Bill Irwin, Lauren Worsham, Christopher Fitzgerald, Drew Barrymore, Keanu Reeves and Noriyuki ‘Pat’ Morita. Oh, wait… //www.youtube.com/watch?v=62DGe9i9lGQ
2016-04-29 19:05:40
Give my regards to Carthage
When MasterVoices announced that it would be doing a semi-staging of Dido and Aeneas starring Broadway divas and frequent collaborators Kelli O’Hara and Victoria Clark, it seemed a screwy idea at best. However, Thursday’s premiere at City Center turned out to be an occasionally bumpy, surprisingly touching presentation of Purcell’s masterpiece made special by O’Hara’s beautifully restrained and glowingly sung queen of Carthage. After the death of its conductor Robert Bass in 2008, the Collegiate Chorale struggled to find its way and last year changed its name to MasterVoices with a mandate to present opera and operetta in English at City Center under its music director Ted Sperling. Deborah Voigt starred as Ruth in its initial show, last fall’s The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan. An intriguing companion piece to Strauss’s Elektra currently playing at the Met, Purcell’s brief 1689 work tells of yet another disaster resulting from […]
2016-02-18 17:00:05
All about my mother
[…] hear Spontini’s La Vestale in French with Crespin also from 1963; Les Dialogues des Carmélites with Denise Duval presented the following year and the unlikely pairing of Schwarzkopf and Cesare Siepi in a 1958 Giulio Cesare with countertenor Russell Oberlin as Sesto! Soon after American Opera Society ceased, Eve Queler started Opera Orchestra of New York and for over 40 years it too introduced important singers and rare operas, but apparently OONY is no more. Collegiate Chorale has become MasterVoices and begun to focus on lighter music and Leon Botstein’s American Symphony Orchestra performed no opera this season, so perhaps the decades-long tradition of eagerly awaited, locally-produced high profile concert opera is over. Many thanks to parterre’s own Dawn Fatale who kindly supplied me with her copy of Hérodiade after I discovered that mine was corrupted. By the way, this Massenet performance took place just three days after the famous […]
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2015-10-09 17:00:46
BSO and Nelsons Afire in Russian Program
[…] since the retirement of its founder John Oliver. A few interesting changes were apparent, not the least of which was the appearance of scores in the singers’ hand, a long-time no-no in TFC history. Rather than hamper the singers, it seemed to encourage them, and the clarity of their Russian diction, thoroughly coached by Lidiya Yankovskaya, was admirable. The chorus was prepared by James Bagwell, whose lengthy and impressive C.V. includes the helming of the Collegiate Chorale 2009-2015 plus many other instances of preparation of operatic and orchestral choruses . The bottom line was that the TFC sang with its usual fervor while projecting a particularly elegant blend within each section, no matter what the volume demands may have been. Nadezhda Serdyuk laments for Andris Nelsons (Liza Voll photo) Nelsons propensity for forward-movement left little space for creation of atmosphere in the score’s more contemplative moments, which are […]
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