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Accidentally like a martyr
Chris’s Cache previews Donizetti’s Poliuto, with a broadcast starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde and Gabriele Viviani, along with Les Martyrs, the opera’s French grand opera revision, with Leyla Gencer, Mario di Felici and Renato Bruson.
2022-10-10 10:50:54
Born on this day composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813) and soprano Leyla Gencer (1924).
2022-07-18 14:02:07
Fleisher, Pires, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: July 18, 2022. Instrumentalists and Singers. We’ll skip several anniversaries, such as Francesco Cilea’s, his opera Adriana Lecouvreur notwithstanding, even though the title soprano role has been sung by such luminaries as Magda Olivero, Renata Tebaldi, Leyla Gencer, Montserrat Caballé, Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni, Joan Sutherland and Angela Gheorghiu. We’ll also skip Ernest Bloch, a Swiss-Jewish-American composer mostly famous for his Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque, a large-scale work for cello and orchestra. And we’ll also leave out Adolphe Adam who wrote music for such popular ballets as Giselle and Le corsaire. All three of them were born this week, on July 23rd of 1866, July 24th of 1880 and July 24th of 1803 respectively. Instead, we’ll acknowledge several interpreters: the pianists, violinist, and singers. First, the pianists. Leon Fleisher was born on July 23rd of 1928. Fleisher lived a long life (he died two years ago) but his […]
2021-11-01 09:05:41
Back with a bang: Donizetti's Roberto Devereux from Chelsea Opera Group with Helena Dix and Eleazar Rodrigues
[…] Italian operas of the period, Donizetti would write at least four operas involving various members of the Tudors. As Protestant monarchs, these characters were expected to behave badly which meant that censors would allow a great deal more leeway when dealing with dramas about Protestant monarchs than with Roman Catholic ones. Like the majority of Donizetti's opera, Roberto Devereux seemed to drop out of the repertoire after the 1880s and was not revived until Leyla Gencer sang the role of Elisabetta in Naples in 1964. Since then the opera has managed to keep a grip on the fringes of the repertoire. Opera Holland Park performed it in 2009, and Welsh National Opera performed it in 2013 [see my review] as part of a Tudor Queens trilogy and it was revived in 2019 [see my review]. Covent Garden managed concert performances in 2002 [recorded for Opera Rara] but like many companies, […]
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