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2022-06-29 09:43:21
An exciting rediscovery: Mercadante's Il proscritto proves far more than a museum piece in this thrilling revival from Opera Rara
Mercadante: Il proscritto - Iván Ayón-Rivas & Ramón Vargas - Opera Rara at the Barbican (Photo Russell Duncan)Mercadante: Il Proscritto; Irene Roberts, Ramón Vargas, Iván Ayón-Rivas, Elizabeth DeShong, Sally Matthews, Goderdzi Janelidze, Opera Rara Chorus, Britten Sinfonia, Carlo Rizzi; Opera Rara at the BarbicanReviewed 28 June 2022 (★★★★★)Mercadante's opera revived after a gap of 180 years proved thrilling and remarkably innovative, with gripping drama from all performers. Mercadante is the nearly man of Italian opera, with a successful career lasting from 1819 to the 1860s yet never quite achieving the level of prominence, or historical endurance, of his contemporaries. Opera Rara has already espoused three of his operas over the years and last night (28 June 2022) the company presented Mercadante's Il proscritto at the Barbican Hall, following recording sessions. Carlo Rizzi conducted the Britten Sinfonia and Opera Rara Chorus, with Irene Roberts, Ramón Vargas, Iván Ayón-Rivas, Elizabeth DeShong, Sally Matthews, and Goderdzi Janelidze.Il […]
2021-10-25 18:59:03
We are proud to announce the Winners of Operalia 2021 right on time to celebrate the 2021 World Opera Day! First Prize Victoria Karkacheva, mezzo-soprano, Russia Ivan Ayon-Rivas, tenor, Peru Second Prize Mané Galoyan, soprano, Armenia Bekhzod Davronov, tenor, Uzbekistan Jonah Hoskins, tenor, USA Third Prize Emily Pogorelc, soprano, USA Dmitry Cheblykov, baritone, Russia Jusung [...]
2020-11-16 00:09:00
TheMillbrookIndependent.com: Ulysses Kay (1917-1995): Scherzi musicali (1968), conducted by Andrés Rivas, offers a twelve-tone composition
Ulysses Kay (1917-1995) The Millbrook Independent November 15, 2020 Kevin T. McEneaney At Bard College’s Fisher Center for Performing Arts, The Orchestra Now performed its last concert of the academic year under the baton of Leon Botstein. The program consisted of rarely performed works. *** While the American composer Ulysses Kay (1917-1995), who learned to play piano, violin, and saxophone from his uncle King Oliver, is one of this country’s most important 20th century neo-classical composers, his work is not as widely known as it should be. He studied under Hindemith at Yale and wrote 20 works for large orchestra and five operas, the last being Frederick Douglass (1991). Scherzi musicali (1968), conducted by Andrés Rivas, offers a twelve-tone composition where all twelve notes circulate through the musical scale. The opening movement displays the influence […]
2020-08-25 23:39:00
Bard Music Festival Presents “Out of the Silence: A Celebration of Music”: Four Free Live-Streamed Concerts Showcasing Black Composers...from September 5–26
[…] it has in the past, on behalf of those composers and works of music left, unjustly, in obscurity.” It was Botstein who founded TŌN five years ago, to help make orchestral music relevant to 21st-century audiences. He leads the orchestra in all four programs of “Out of the Silence,” which also features appearances by TŌN’s Academic Director and Associate Conductor James Bagwell, Resident Conductor Zachary Schwartzman and Assistant Conductor Andrés Rivas. Keyboard faculty from the Bard Conservatory of Music will join TŌN for several performances. “Out of the Silence” “Out of the Silence” opens with two works by the great William Grant Still. The first African-American to have a symphony performed by a major U.S. orchestra, and the subject of a 2009 retrospective curated and conducted by Botstein at Lincoln Center, Still is represented by his meditative miniature Out of the […]