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2024-04-17 10:00:33
Happy 84th birthday soprano/mezzo-soprano Anja Silja The post appeared first on parterre box.
2023-02-26 13:33:48
On this day in 1972 soprano Anja Silja made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Fidelio.
2022-11-06 04:58:00
War Memorial Opera House and Veterans BuildingSan Francisco, CAFrom the collection of Lisa HirschSan Francisco Opera's centennial season is underway right now. As part of the festivities, the company has posted, and will be posting more, recorded music from past performances and interviews with people important to the company.You can listen to all of this at Steaming the First Century on the web site. For the interviews, there are also transcripts (yay greater accessibility!). Here's a sampling of what has been posted already:Slavic Sensibilities: Complete recordings of Jenufa from 1980 (starring Elisabeth Söderström as Jenufa and Sena Jurinac as Kostelnicka) and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Cond. Calvin Simmons, with Anja Silja). Excerpts from Boris Godunov, Pikovaya Dama, the US premiere of The Makropulos Case, and Khovanshchina. Parlez-vous français? Complete recordings of Werther and Louise (the latter is now a great rarity). Excerpts from Manon, Les Troyens (with the magnificent Regine! Crespin! as both Cassandre and Didon; Jon Vickers as Enée), […]
2021-06-19 06:41:08
Directing the Don and discovering Dido: I chat to director Jack Furness in advance of his production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera
[…] easy for conductors and directors to become siloed when working on a production, to stay out of each other's way. But he and Finn don't have to do that, and in fact, Finn might have a lot to say about what is going on, on stage, and vice versa. That Shadwell:Ensemble will be in the pit means that they will already have a relationship with the players as well. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas - Silja Elsabet Brynjarsdóttir (Sorceress) and Bernadette Johns (Dido)Royal Academy of Music, 2021(Photo Craig Fuller) Of course, as we were meeting up during the lunch break during rehearsals for Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Royal Academy of Music, I had to ask how rehearsals were going. Jack starts by saying that the rehearsals so far had been so much fun. For many students, it was the first time this year that they had been […]
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