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American composer
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2021-03-04 20:20:00
Anglais - Interview with Lotte de Beer, stage director of Aida at the Opéra national de Paris
[…] subsequent plays Le Barbier de Séville and Le Mariage de Figaro. Rossini’s focus was on the love story and the funny connections that the Revolution is lagging. In Mozart’s work everything is basically about power and sex, which is currently a hot topic. I look for different aspects of how people perceive and deal with it. I go through the piece as an audience member. And then I really go into the head of the Conte, who thinks: “What’s the problem with abusive power and sex? Boys will be boys, I’m gonna have some fun”, like in a Cosby Show kind of thing, where everyone looks happy, with “laughter” and “applause” signs like on a TV set. Then we go into Susanna’s point of view and suddenly we’re carried away in a Brechtian, grotesque, social comedy-drama where she has the impossible job to protect everybody from scandal, while also making […]
2021-01-06 07:30:00
Tuesday Opera: Mozart LE NOZZE DI FIGARO - Solti, Paris Opera -1980 - Popp, Van Dam, Janowitz, Bacquier, Von Stade
Great performance Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Il Conte d’Almaviva……
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2020-10-27 18:47:31
Italian premier says no to Riccardo Muti
This is Signore Conte’s reply to Muti’s request to keep opera houses and concert halls open: Dear Maestro Muti , I respond to your heartfelt appeal … and I take the opportunity to share some considerations with you and with the readers. Your reflections touch me deeply, and I do not think they have left readers indifferent. You […]
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2020-10-27 12:34:05
Italy Re-Closes Performance Venues And Cinemas As Coronavirus Roars Back
With the country setting new daily records for infections, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has ordered that movie theaters, concert halls, opera houses, live theaters, and gyms (which include dance schools) must shut down completely until at least November 24. – Variety
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