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Finnish stage actor (1896-1986)
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- stage actor, painter, opera singer
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2024-04-15 08:00:52
I Wager that few Western collectors in the 1970s knew […] To access this content you must login to your Insider account, or purchase a subscription for $5 monthly, or $49 annually.
2024-04-03 02:27:08
I Wager that violinist Daniel Kurganov and pianist Constantine Finehouse found collaborating on historic instruments in the three Brahms sonatas to be an illuminating experience on many levels. For example, the slightly musty and registrally differentiated sonorities emitting from the 1868 Streicher piano used in Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2 blend comfortably with the 1706 […]
2023-07-19 10:41:00
Munich Opera Festival (1) - Così fan tutte, 17 July 2023
Nationaltheater Fiordiligi – Louise Alder Dorabella – Avery Amereau Guglielmo/Gulielmo – Konstantin Krimmel Ferrando – Sebastian Kohlhepp/Jonas Hacker Despina – Sandrine Piau Don Alfonso – Johannes Martin Kränzle Benedict Andrews (director) Magda Willi (set designs) Victoria Behr (costumes) Mark Van Denesse (lighting) Katja Leclerc (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Kamila Akhmedjanova) Bavarian State Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Images: ©Wilfried HöslDon Alfonso (Johannes Martin Kränzle), Despina (Sandrine Piau) It is refreshing to find a Così fan tutte that takes the very greatest of Mozart and Da Ponte’s three masterpieces (for the most part) seriously. The amount of nonsense I have seen and heard said of it at least matches that for Don Giovanni. That the nonsense may be genuinely ‘felt’ is neither here nor there, we are not supposed to say that; uninformed misunderstanding is just that, whether it concern an artwork, politics, or particle physics. Benedict Andrews’s […]
2023-05-02 18:41:00
This looks extremely cool: Dylan Mattingly's six-hour opera Stranger Love will be presented at Walt Disney Concert Hall. LA Phil commission, world premiere, etc. I wish that I could be there!Press release from the LA Phil:LOS ANGELES (April 11, 2023) – The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association presents the world premiere of LA Phil commission Stranger Love at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Saturday, May 20. Stranger Love is a six-hour multimedia opera with music composed by Dylan Mattingly and text by Thomas Bartscherer. The opera takes place over the course of three acts, including a dinner intermission.Scored for a 28-piece orchestra, singers and dancers, Stranger Love unfolds on an expansive timescale and presents a grand celebration of being alive. Both a love story and the story of love, the opera broadens in scope over the course of three acts, moving from the experience of individual lives, through an archetypal expression of the possibilities of human love, and […]
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