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2021-12-22 18:43:12
Stanko Jovanovic, permanent conductor of the Serbian Radio-Television... The post Death of a Serb conductor, 53 appeared first on Slipped Disc.
2021-05-11 07:34:01
A vivid and restless talent: music by Serbian composer Isidora Žebeljan in the first disc issued after her death last year
[…] work is almost, but not quite, homophonic with close, dense, opaque harmonies setting off the melodic material. As with other works on the disc, you feel the fascinating pull in Žebeljan's work between lyricism, complexity and density of harmonies. The piece does not sound easy (!) and the choir gives a fine performance. Next comes the intriguingly named When God Created Dubrovnik for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (here a live performance from soprano Katarina Jovanović with a quartet including Mirjana Nešković, Jelena Dimitrijević, and Nataša Petrović). The work was written for the 2013 City of London Festival when it was performed by Lore Lixenberg and the Brodsky Quartet. Žebeljan sets words by Serbian poet Milan Milišić (1941-1991) who was born in Dubrovnik and died there in 1991 at the very beginning of the war, killed by a bomb fired by the Serbian army. He was a poet and translator, […]
2019-12-15 14:06:00
Sarastro – Ain Anger Tamino – Andreas Schager Speaker, Second Priest – Adrian Eröd First Priest – Peter Jelosits Queen of the Night – Aleksandra Jovanović Pamina – Andrea Carroll Three Ladies – Fiona Jopson, Ulrike Helzel, Zoryana Kushpler Papagena – Ileana Tonca Papageno – Rafael Fingerlos Monostatos – Benedikt Kobel First Armoured Man – Herbert Lippert Second Armoured Man – Ryan Speedo Green Three Boys – Members of the Vienna Boys’ Choir Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier (directors) Christian Fenouillat (set designs) Agostino Cavalca (costumes) Christophe Forey (lighting) Beate Vollack (choreography) Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus director: Martin Schebesta) Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera James Conlon (conductor) Something new, Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando, was followed by something old: that most Viennese of operas, Mozart’s Magic Flute. It was premiered in 1791, not at a court theatre—today’s State Opera today’s equivalent—but at the suburban Freihaus-Theater auf der […]
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