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Czech operatic soprano with a strong and soaring lyric-playwright voice (1878-1930)
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2021-01-02 12:39:52
On this day in 1913 soprano Frieda Hempel sang her second performance at the Metropolitan Opera, the Queen in Les Huguenots opposite Emmy Destinn, Enrico Caruso, Dinh Gilly, Léon Rothier and Adamo Didur.
2020-01-09 07:58:51
Musica Non Grata: marking the re-opening of Prague State Opera
The auditorium of Prague State Opera Prague State Opera (Státní Opera) recently re-opened after a three-year closure for renovation, with a gala on 5 January 2020, under the direction of Karl-Heinz Steffens, the new general music director, celebrating the theatre's original opening on 5 January 1888 as the New German Theatre. The reopening is being marked by a four-year opera and concert series Musica Non Grata exploring the once thriving cultural exchange between the Czech Republic and Germany, showcasing Czech-German-Jewish cultural history in Prague.Prague, in fact, has three historic theatres. The State Opera was opened in 1888 as the New German Theatre at a time when the number of German speakers in Prague was decreasing and the Czech National Revival was well under way. But as part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the relationship between Czech and German culture remained important. There is also the National Theatre (Národní Divadlo) […]
2017-06-08 15:00:43
And three for Mahler
A poster outside Carnegie Hall proclaimed “Mahler Well Met” and to some degree it proved to be true. This season’s trio of concerts by the Met Orchestra took place within a single week: all were conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and each featured an important vocal work by Gustav Mahler. When the concerts were first announced they were all to have been conducted by James Levine but only Das Knaben Wunderhorn was included. Soon enough however Levine dropped out and Salonen was announced as his replacement and the programming began to change to focus on Mahler. But it’s not as if the composer is neglected in New York—just this week I received a brochure from Carnegie Hall outlining its 2017-18 season and seven of Mahler’s nine symphonies will be performed along with the Adagio of the unfinished Tenth Symphony. In addition Sir Simon Rattle brings the London Symphony Orchestra to […]
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2017-05-25 18:40:37
How The Royal Opera has kept opera looking forward for more than three hundred years
Eva-Maria Westbroek as Anna Nicole in Anna Nicole © ROH / Bill Cooper 2011 Creating new work is crucial to the future of any art form. Right from the very beginning, the Royal Opera House has played a significant role in the forging of new operas, hosting its first world premiere in 1735 with Handel’s Ariodante, just a few years after the opera house was built. Following in Handel’s footsteps are such composers as Weber , Vaughan Williams , Britten , Henze , Birtwistle and Adès , whose work was championed by the ROH – as a delve into the precious archive material in the ROH Collections reveals. The first theatre on our Covent Garden site was built in 1732. Just two years later a fortuitous (for us) series of events led Handel to become resident composer at the new theatre. Along with Ariodante there were numerous important world […]
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