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2021-12-09 07:36:06
Samson et Dalila: Sir Sidney Nolan and the opera
[…] farewell to Nolan's stunning designs which I feel should have been declared national treasures. Moshinsky and Nolan's production debuted on 28 September 1981, conducted by Sir Colin Davis with Jon Vickers and Shirley Verrett in the title roles. I was there, and it remains one of my vivid memories, though I also saw Placido Domingo (1985) and Jose Carreras (1991) in the opera as well. By the time of the revival in 2004, with Jose Cura and Denyce Graves, the production seems to have been creaking and the sets in a bad way. It is sad that the opportunity was not taken to refurbish one of Nolan's few major operatic ventures. Whilst Nolan designed quite extensively for stage, Samson et Dalila seems to have been a rare venture into opera. He would design drop curtains for Moshinsky's 1985 production of Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, but Nolan first worked at […]
2021-06-04 07:09:05
Argentine-born actor, writer, and director Ben Cura is known for his work in film and TV, and on stage, including Netflix’s Marcella, 15 Minutes of War, Gatecrash and his award-winning directorial debut Creditors which he adapted from the August Strindberg play. But he is also developing a reputation as a musician having released his debut single, Water earlier this year. He has now released a new neo-classical single Toutes Les Couleurs, and soon he will be releasing a debut EP, whilst later in the year, his original motion picture soundtrack features on the film Among The Beasts, directed by Matthew Newton. Ben Cura was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Argentine tenor/conductor José Cura and his first acting role came at age nine, as a supernumerary in a production of Verdi's La Forza del Destino at the Opéra de Marseille, France. Toutes Les Couleurs is about Ben […]
2021-01-28 15:00:49
Undead of the night
For those pining for Puccini with the Met out of commission. Trove Thursday steps up with the composer’s brief first opera Le Villi with Krassimira Stoyanova, José Cura and Franz Grundheber, led by Simone Young.
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2020-10-21 08:30:03
Top tenor signs composer contract with Beethoven’s publisher
Message from José Cura: Happy and proud to announce the beginning of my collaboration with the legendary Austrian Publishing House, Doblinger Musikverlag. The prestigious Viennese based company will soon be publishing my work as a composer, so that everyone can access the scores of Ecce Homo, my Neruda Sonnets or my guitar concerto “Concierto para […]
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