Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz News
Norwegian singer
- soprano
- opera
- Norway
- professor, opera singer
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2016-12-23 22:16:16
There arose such a clatter
With Christmas Eve 2016 falling on a Saturday, the Met offers contrasting orchestral splendors at noon and 6 p.m. Early birds will have another opportunity to catch the earnest performances of Susanna Phillips and Eric Owens, and the commanding one of Tamara Mumford, in Robert Lepage‘s Lite-Brite display of Saariaho’s L’amour de loin. A waning crescent will be overhead when the evening crowd files out of Strauss’s Salome, with its evocative moon talk. Patricia Racette‘s negotiation of the title role has been polarizing, but one acknowledges a game professional’s valor in covering several performances of a difficult role when a colleague withdrew. We draw nearer to the end of a year that has been tumultuous and often upsetting, within and beyond the opera world. It would be fair to say that many of us did not get what we expected or wanted in 2016, and we have said goodbye […]
2016-05-29 00:18:00
The fathers of operetta are Jacques Offenbach and Franz Von Suppé: in the 1850s they set the rules of a genre that would be immensely popular until WWI and would decline later, for cosmovisions and music history changed enormously. The ftivolous wit of the libretti, the charming music based on contagious melodies and dances, the very consonant harmony and the basic desire to please mainstream audiences made a concoction that was easily swallowed. Many hundreds were composed (and there was a similar trend in Spain: the zarzuela). Some were French (Messager, Lecocq), others Viennese or Hungarian (Johann Strauss II, Millöcker, Kálman, Lehár); there was also the special British case of Gilbert and Sullivan, or a tendency to picaresque vaudeville in Italy. And in the USA […]
2014-03-15 02:30:00
The Mahler I ♥♥♥ ... The 8th
"Komm! Hebe Dich Zu Höhern Sphären!" The 8th... immense yet intimate, overcoming yet ethereal, this extraordinary masterpiece, introduced to the world in Munich,1910, marked the only time when Mahler was able to enjoy an all-round triumph for his music, and performance, at one of his premières. When "His time" as a recognised genius was finally coming, his time among the living was nearing its sad, premature end. Here are a few "8ths I love" for you all. Hear the voices of the angels... let us get lost in those final, magical verses from Goethe's Faust offering the sweetest redemption to the Hero's errant soul... Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major 'Of A Thousand' Erin Wall, Elza van den Heever, Laura Claycomb, Katarina Karnéus, Yvonne Naef, Anthony Dean Griffey, Quinn Kelsey, James Morris. Pacific Boychoir, San Francisco Girls Chorus San Francisco Symphony and Chorus Michael […]
Brian Dickie, Life as General Director of Chicago
2013-09-25 10:45:29
In theory we have to reduce 40 singers to 20 over these two days. It seems that we have 25 singers actually showing up for the final stages - five drop outs. With a substantial amount of money there for the winning it always seems strange to me that the absentee rate is so high. All competitions suffer, however, from much the same tendency. And for us I suppose it can be something of a relief! We had 17 yesterday and will hear the balance today. We are not making the cut until this evening of course. It is an odd fact that so many of the good ones come towards the end. Yesterday the afternoon seemed better than the morning, and I have little doubt that by the end of the day we will have a fine set of semi finalists, contending tomorrow for the ten places allocated for […]
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