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2021-12-03 07:00:19
Hovhaness’ “Fra Angelico,” Fantasy for Orchestra: Angelic Intelligences
The American composer Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was one of the twentieth century’s greatest musical mavericks. As a student at Tanglewood in the 1940s, Hovhaness’ music was ridiculed by the establishment so severely that he withdrew from the school and abandoning his scholarship. Famously, over the course of two weeks in the 1930s, he burned some 1,000 scores that he considered to be mediocre. Following this purge, an authentic new voice emerged. A ...
2021-03-16 09:26:19
A Clemenza for our times: Mozart's final opera in a stripped back production live streamed from Bergen
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito - Adrian Angelico, Bror Magnus Tødenes, Beate Mordal - Bergen National Opera (Photo Bergen National Opera) Mozart La Clemenza di Tito; Bergen National Opera, Rodula Gaitanou, Edward Gardner; Grieghallen, Bergen Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 15 March 2021 A stripped back production, a director working remotely and a young Norwegian cast, but Mozart's final opera retains its extraordinary powerBergen National Opera's new production of Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito which was live-streamed from Grieghallen in Bergen last night (15 March 2021) was very much a production for our times. Originally planned for last year with an international cast, the production finally went ahead this year in a stripped-back form, recast with young Norwegian singers and directed remotely by Rodula Gaitanou! Edward Gardner conducted the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra with Bror Magnus Tødenes as Tito, Beate Mordal as Vitellia, Adrian Angelico as Sesto, Ingeborg Gillebo […]
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