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2022-06-02 22:50:11
Mikayla Hartfield performs "Summertime" from "Porgy and Bess" during an Opera in the Rock “Let’s Talk Opera” discussion at The Hall in Little Rock on Wednesday, June 1, 2022. Hartfield was part of the discussion with Marcia Sells, chief diversity officer for the Metropolitan Opera, and Victoria Ramirez, executive director of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Stephen Swofford) Only U.S. opera company to focus entire season on 'building the Black experience,' CEO says by Eric E. Harrison| June 1, 2022 Opera in the Rock, Little Rock’s reconstituted professional opera company, will be “the only opera company in the United States dedicating its entire season to build the Black experience," said Fred Owens, the company's president and chief executive officer, during Wednesday's announcement of the 2022-23 season. The season will offer one fully staged […]
2022-02-18 07:52:20
The Leeds Lieder Festival 2022 runs from Thursday 28 April to Sunday 1 May 2022; four days of song curated by artistic director Joseph Middleton under the title Song Illuminated, exploring how song illuminates our lives. With all of the concerts taking place at the Howard Assembly Room. Dorothea Röschmann, soprano, opens the festival with Joseph Middleton in Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and music by Wolf and Wagner. Ian Bostridge, tenor, and Dame Imogen Cooper will be performing Schubert's later masterpiece, Schwanengesang, whilst Robin Tritschler, tenor, is joined by pianist Christopher Glynn for a recital that has moonlight illuminating all the songs. Louise Alder, soprano, joins Middleton to bring the festival to a close with a recital of songs ranging from Fauré to Rodgers and Hammerstein. But there is much more to the festival than this. There are lunchtime recitals in partnership with Samling Institute, BBC New Generation Artists and Kathleen Ferrier Awards, […]
2022-01-24 05:39:00
Works by Ramirez, Dowland, Schubert, Giazotto, El-Hkoury, Part, Elgar, Foster, Andre, and traditional selections. Daniel Hope, violin; Zurcher Kammerorchester; Ensemble Amarcord, Katta; Patrick Messina; Jacques Ammon; Thomas Hampson; Julia Okruashvili; Marie-Pierre Langlamet; Colin Rich; and the Palau de la Musica Vocal Quartet. DG 486 0541.By John J. Puccio“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” --Desmond Tutu“Music has a tremendous power. This album is my attempt to send out a ray of hope and to provide people, myself included, with a sense of support and perhaps even consolation.” --Daniel HopeFor those few who may not, perhaps, be completely familiar with Daniel Hope, he is a South African-born classical violinist (b. 1973) of world renown who is also the Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and the New Century Chamber Orchestra. He plays the 1742 "ex-Lipinski" violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu.Hope conceived […]
2021-08-26 11:34:49
Cadogan Hall; Royal Albert Hall, LondonTwo proms celebrated the rich music of Astor Piazzolla in contrasting but illuminating ways The centenary of Astor Piazzolla’s birth falls this year, an anniversary marked by a pair of Proms, notably different in their approach. At Monday’s Cadogan Hall concert, guitarist Sean Shibe, mezzo Wallis Giunta and flautist Adam Walker placed Piazzolla’s Histoire du Tango, for flute and guitar, alongside a scene from his “operita” María de Buenos Aires and songs by fellow Argentinian composer Ariel Ramírez, also born in 1921. Written in 1986, and juxtaposing sensuality with something of the contrapuntal purity of Bach, Histoire du Tango charts the dance’s evolution from its fin-de-siècle origins in the brothels of Buenos Aires via cafes and nightclubs to the bravura “Concert d’aujourd’hui” with which it ends. Walker and Shibe did fine things with it, offsetting beauty with ferocity and combining virtuosity with exquisite tenderness and grace. […]
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