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NYTimes.com: The Perseverance of André Watts: Putting physical disability on view in the highly competitive arena of classical music takes grit
André Watts performing with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in 2012. Credit...Hiroyuki Ito/Getty ImagesThe New York Times Toward the end of 2019, the classical pianist André Watts was facing what seemed to be an insurmountable impediment. The last time he had encountered nerve damage in his left hand, back in 2004, an operation on a herniated disk led to rapid recovery. But this time the injury was not to the nerve Sheath but to the nerve fiber, and after vertebra surgery, the prognosis was not good. Regeneration would take time; there was no guarantee that it would enable him to fully use his all-important left thumb. He canceled quite a few concerts, but would he have to relinquish his performance career altogether? There was no need to concertize in order to boost his reputation. Half a century of performances and recordings had already earned […]
2018-12-21 07:30:46
A mash up of Gilbert & Sullivan and the Carry On films: Straus' The Pearls of Cleopatra at Berlin's Komische Opera
Oscar Straus: The Pearls of CleopatraKomische Oper, Berlin (Photo: Iko Freese/drama-berlin.de) Oscar Straus The Pearls of Cleopatra; Dagmar Manzel, dir Barrie Kosky, cond: Adam Benzwi; Komische Oper, Berlin Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 13 December 2018 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Barrie Kosky pulls out all stops to deliver an unforgettable night in Old Vienna!A Viennese composer of operettas, film-scores and songs, Oscar Nathan Straus (6th March 1870 - 11 January 1954) was seen as a serious rival to Franz Lehár and after seeing Barrie Kosky’s riveting and entertaining production of The Pearls of Cleopatra (Die Perlen der Cleopatra) at the Komische Oper in Berlin, I can clearly see why. When Lehár's popular operetta, The Merry Widow, premièred in 1905, Straus is said to have remarked ‘Das kann ich auch!’ (I can also do that!). Undoubtedly, he did!I caught Straus' The Pearls of Cleopatra at Berlin's Komische […]
2017-05-22 01:06:38
Duel 1 – Gathering the Metals Matthew lunged at Xiaoyi, who held his dear Alexis hostage, only to have the awful woman bat him away by smacking him in the face, as if he was but a large beetle; the astonishing force from the small woman landed him facedown in the sand, scorching his face. Matthew Howard Carter, one of the wealthiest men in New York City, virtual center of the world, heir to his grandfather’s fortune as former curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, former American National Champion, lost everything, as small and lost as an insect in the barren land far from home. His brown hair and tanned skin did little to protect him from the harsh sun and sand. Xiaoyi, small and pale with a large head, features as fine as those of a porcelain doll, gave little regard to the red sunburn mounting on […]
2017-05-07 17:00:19
From the sublime to the stentorian
W.C. Fields used to have a funny trope about in show business you should never work with children or animals. To that list should perhaps be added the soprano Anna Netrebko. L.A. Opera presented Ms. Netrebko, for the first time in a decade, along with her husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov in concert Thursday night at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in a collection of operatic favorites that ran the gamut from the sublime to the stentorian. This was very welcome homecoming for Ms. Netrebko since the last roles she sang here were Lucia, Juliette, and Manon, all partnered by Rolando Villazon. A crackling rendition of the overture to La Forza del Destino led by the evening’s conductor Jader Bignamini started things off. His Verdi was exemplary and it’s easy to take these familiar warhorses for granted until you’re sitting there with 60 plus people are sawing away at it for […]
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