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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-02 18:32:40
Tanglewood 2024 Looks Good
[…] gem, will be on July 28, and Chopin’s No. 1 on August 23th, and Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety on July 19th. (Orchestra players are supposed to detest the Chopin concertos, but those who do are wrong; they should listen.) There will be some remarkable specialties. The Boston Pops Orchestra will accompany a projection of Jurassic Park with John Williams’s score, live! As if in contrast, the entire Act III of Wagner’s Die Götterdämmerung, with christine Goerke as Brünnhilde, will be heard on July 20. I hope that next year they will do Act I, which is Wagner at the absolute peak of his powers. A “Koussevitzky 150th Celebration” is featured on July 26, to include Scriabin’s Prometheus and Koussevitzky’s own Concerto for Double Bass, with the BSO’s own Edwin Barker playing the solo. (Stravinsky’s Memories and Commentaries, 1960, mention how Koussevitzky came on stage with his double bass to play […]
2024-01-30 07:50:00
Back with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden
[…] however, a mezzo-soprano role (the first Klytämnestra was a dramatic contralto), but quite often taken by older sopranos like Karita Mattila who has made the move into what Rosalind Plowright calls the 'hags, bags, witches and bitches' repertoire with great dramatic aplomb. Perhaps the lower register rather lacked the resonance that a mezzo-soprano would have brought to it (Felicity Palmer was notable in this role, we saw her in the 2014 BBC Prom with Christina Goerke, see my review). But Mattila made up for it with a thrilling dramatic focus, giving us a sense of over-the-top divadom in the role. Mattila's Klytämnestra had a striking look of Ivana Trump in later life, and her vivid behaviour seemed to tie in with that sort of media personality. Perhaps this Klytämnestra was not the most intensely disturbed that I have seen, other singers have made her upset over her dreams go really […]
2023-12-11 06:22:00
The English Concert. Handel's Rodelinda regina de'Longobardi. December 10, 2023.
Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. Balcony (Seat J3, $28).End of concert. The people in the front are (from L to R): Garibaldo, Rodelinda, Bertarido, Harry Bicket, Eduige, Grimoaldo, and Unulfo.Program - in concertRodelinda, HWV 19 (1725) by Handel (1685-1759).Conductor - Harry Bicket; Rodelinda - Lucy Crowe (soprano), Bertarido - Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Unulfo - Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (countertenor), Eduige - christine Rice (messo-soprano), Garibaldo - Brendon Cedel (bass-bariton).Background. At his death, the King of Lombardy left his domain in equal parts to his three children: Bertarido, Eduige, and Gundeberto. Gundeberto has died, Bertarido is believed to have died - leaving the widow Rodelinda behind as Queen of Milan - and by wooing Eduige, Duke Grimoaldo has aspirations to the whole kingdom.Story. Grimoaldo has seized power, so Rodelinda and her son Flavio are his prisoners. Grimoaldo offers the throne to Rodelinda if she would marry him. Rodelinda refuses, and Eduige […]
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