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2016-10-18 14:31:59
Wunderbar!
Born on this day in 1898 actress and singer Lotte Lenya. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98o0RaOkJs Born on this day in 1706 composer Baldassare Galuppi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8kkPt5FwM Born on this day in 1909 conductor Otto Ackermann. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J3qv1lEHxI Born on this day in 1920 tenor Alexander Young. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtSqPEk0DQ Born on this day in 1922 soprano Camilla Williams. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4QpPJjDRWM Happy 86th birthday baritone Barry McDaniel. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkVPNcGNABg Happy 82nd birthday soprano Berit Lindholm. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXoAjZoV5W0 Happy 79th birthday soprano Catarina Ligendza. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHM2S9kNxFI Happy 71st birthday tenor Henry Price. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJAc1d8HRDs Happy 69th birthday soprano Margarita Castro Alberty. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLiMioMFJdg
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Royal Opera House
2016-06-15 16:34:01
Remembering Alberto Remedios at the Royal Opera House
[…] of Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage under Davis, delivering the role with stylish panache. Other cast members included Joan Carlyle and Stuart Burrows, and Remedios returned with them and much of the same cast in a 1970 revival. In 1971 Remedios sang Froh in a revival of Hans Hotter’s production of Das Rheingold, and the following year reprised the role of Erik in a prestigious revival of Der fliegende Holländer under Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, with Catarina Ligendza as Senta. The Telegraph’s Alberto Remedios obituary: a dockyard welder from Liverpool who rose to become one of the great Wagnerian tenors Remedios next returned to The Royal Opera on a number of occasions towards the end of the decade, singing Bacchus in the 1978 revival of Ariadne auf Naxos under Bernhard Klee and giving a particularly robust performance as the First Man in Armour in August Everding’s 1979 production of Die Zauberflöte […]
2016-04-12 15:00:43
Not only with words, but with lively gestures
[…] being realistically flayed); the fundamental artificiality of operatic singing coming from people who are not producing their voices. This is, even so, gripping work from a major director. Friedrich uses the medium to flash back to the murder of Agamemnon as Elektra describes it. Noted German tragedian Rolf Boysen plays the mute role of the slain king, staring with sad eyes at his daughter. Pagan rituals are given gruesome cinematic treatment. Although the Chrysothemis (Catarina Ligendza) is not among the more impressive in this survey, Friedrich teases out ambiguity and inner conflict in the scene of Elektra’s quasi-incestuous overtures to her. Elektra dances as though astonished to discover she can move again. At the end, she has collapsed but still blinks. Both sisters are shut out of the palace, having no place in the new order. Rysanek undertook the title role only under studio conditions. In her time, it may […]
2015-10-18 14:00:41
My name is Barbara
On this day in 1966 The Apple Tree opened at the Shubert Theater, starring Barbara Harris, won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sTYt18NgDI Born on this day in 1706 composer Baldassare Galuppi http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8kkPt5FwM Born on this day in 1898 actress and singer Lotte Lenya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSLTvKC-P3Y Born on this day in 1909 conductor Otto Ackermann http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J3qv1lEHxI Born on this day in 1920 tenor Alexander Young http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtSqPEk0DQ Born on this day in 1922 soprano Camilla Williams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4QpPJjDRWM Happy 85th birthday baritone Barry McDaniel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkVPNcGNABg Happy 81st birthday soprano Berit Lindholm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXoAjZoV5W0 Happy 78th birthday soprano Catarina Ligendza http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHM2S9kNxFI Happy 70th birthday tenor Henry […]
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