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Faces of classical music
2020-03-04 06:50:00
Mirella Freni (1935-2020)
[…] sang more than 140 performances with the company in all.In 2005, at 70, Ms. Freni sang in a production of Tchaikovsky's "The Maid of Orleans" with the Washington National Opera. In May of that year the Met presented her in a gala celebrating the 40th anniversary of her company debut and her 50th year in opera. The performance was her unannounced farewell to the stage.Ms. Freni's first marriage, to the Italian conductor and pianist Leone Magiera, also from Modena, ended in divorce. She married Mr. Ghiaurov in 1978. He died in 2004. She is survived by her daughter, Micaëla Magiera; two grandchildren; and a sister, Marta Fregni.In later years Ms. Freni found satisfaction in teaching. After she enjoyed success with master classes at the University of Bologna, the mayor of Vignola, a town near Modena, invited her to establish a center for the study of singing there. Housed in a […]
2020-02-19 12:40:00
Philharmonie Szenen aus Goethes Faust, WoO3 Faust, Pater Seraphicus, Doctor Marianus – Markus Eiche Gretchen, Una Poenitentium, Solo – Christina Gansch Mephistopheles, Böser Geist, Pater Profundus, Solos – Stephan Klemm Ariel, Pater Ecstaticus, Solos – Bernhard Berchtold Sorge, Not, Jüngerer Engel, Magna Peccatrix, Solos – Sophie Klußmann Mangel, Muller Samaritana, Solos – Stefanie Irányi Marthe, Schuld, Penitent, Mater Gloriosa, Maria Aegyptiaca, Solos – Katharina Magiera RIAS Chamber Choir (chorus director: Gregor Meyer) Children’s Choir of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium, Berlin (chorus directors: Jan Olberg and Vera Zweiniger) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra John Storgårds (conductor) Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust is a curious work. How would one conceive of it if one did not know Goethe’s ‘original’? Whether we like it or not, such will doubtless be the experience of an increasing number of listeners (relatively speaking, for how many will ever come to it all?) just […]
2020-02-19 12:40:00
Philharmonie Szenen aus Goethes Faust, WoO3 Faust, Pater Seraphicus, Doctor Marianus – Markus Eiche Gretchen, Una Poenitentium, Solo – Christina Gansch Mephistopheles, Böser Geist, Pater Profundus, Solos – Stephan Klemm Ariel, Pater Ecstaticus, Solos – Bernhard Berchtold Sorge, Not, Jüngerer Engel, Magna Peccatrix, Solos – Sophie Klußmann Mangel, Muller Samaritana, Solos – Stefanie Irányi Marthe, Schuld, Penitent, Mater Gloriosa, Maria Aegyptiaca, Solos – Katharina Magiera RIAS Chamber Choir (chorus director: Gregor Meyer) Children’s Choir of the Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Gymnasium, Berlin (chorus directors: Jan Olberg and Vera Zweiniger) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra John Storgårds (conductor) Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust is a curious work. How would one conceive of it if one did not know Goethe’s ‘original’? Whether we like it or not, such will doubtless be the experience of an increasing number of listeners (relatively speaking, for how many will ever come to it all?) just […]
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