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2016-05-18 02:52:21
It’s intermission time at the online “opera house.” With that in mind, our feature for today is the much ballyhooed connection between Mefistofele’s creator, Arrigo Boito, and composer Amilcare Ponchielli, resulting in that good old-fashioned warhorse, La Gioconda. The Scapigliati Get Scalped Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), poet, librettist & composer First, some back story. Poet, musician, librettist, composer, essayist, and journalistic firebrand Arrigo Boito (1842-1918), whose birth names were Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, was at the forefront of one of the most turbulent eras in Italian operatic history — that is, the period before, during and after Verdi’s Aida (1871), and between his penultimate masterwork Otello (1887). The son of an impoverished Polish countess and a philandering miniaturist painter, as a youngster Boito demonstrated an early aptitude for music and music theory. Enrolling at the Milan Conservatory in 1853, his intellectual drive and insatiable capacity for devouring the great works […]
2014-03-02 16:17:58
Brazil’s Fat Lady Can’t Sing, But She Can Still Do the Bossa Nova (Part Two)
A Continuation My “Personal and Cultural History of Opera, Popular Music, Soccer, Musical Theater and the Cinema in the Land of Carnival and Samba” Radio Days Interior of the Metropolitan Opera in New York The broadcasts would all begin around 1:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, and in the same imperious manner: “Texaco presents the Metropolitan Opera. Welcome opera lovers in the United States and Canada to the Saturday afternoon broadcast season.” Imagine my surprise when, instead of the familiar strains of Manhattan-based radio announcer Peter Allen,* I heard the Italian-inflected speech patterns of one Walter Lourenção, who spoke these same words not in the mid-Atlantic English I had become accustomed to listening, but in perfectly produced Brazilian Portuguese. For over 80 years the radio transmissions of opera performances, “Broadcast live, direct from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City,” have been a […]
2013-05-14 04:11:46
Hollywood Goes to the Opera – More Cinematic Disparities for Your Viewing Displeasure
Back by Popular Demand The devilish Feodor Chaliapin Jr., in The Name of the Rose I received so much positive feedback about a previous piece that was posted last year entitled “Opera Goes to Hollywood” that I decided to write a follow-up sequel. I call it “Hollywood Goes to the Opera.” It follows the same general pattern and style as the earlier one – that is, it establishes why movie studios should both stay in and out of the operatic arena, while touching upon the various aspects of this most over-looked of movie sub-genres. These additional episodes never made it to the original piece, either because of time constraints or lack of available space. With that said, I hope to make amends with this latest post. I also hope you enjoy these extra morsels as much as I enjoyed researching and writing them. Biopics Galore To quote a […]
2012-01-01 23:18:00
JANUARY 2 Today in classical music history
Cristobal MORALES 1512 Birth of Spanish composer, choral director and vocalist Cristobal MORALES in Seville. d-Malaga, 14 JUN 1553.1678 Opening of the Gaensemarkt Theater, Hamburg's first opera house.1726 Death of Italian composer Domenico Zipoli in Córdoba, Argentina. b-Prato, 16 OCT 1688. Search Domenico Zipoli.1732 Birth of Bohemian composer ofchurch music and organist Franz Xaver BRIXI in Prague. d- 14 OCT 1771. aka Frantisek Xaver BRIXI. Search Frantisek Xaver BRIXI.1747 Death of French composer, violinist and conductor Jean-Fery Rebel in Paris. b-Paris 18 APR 1666. Search Jean-Fery Rebel.1753 Death of Italian contralto Marie Maddalena Pieri. Born 1683 ? in Florence. Created Tamerlano in Tamerlano (Vivaldi)Sang in premiere of Carceriere de se Stesso (Orlandini) Bajazate (Leo) […]
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