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2018-03-06 06:00:38
Classical music: Pianist Alon Goldstein and the UW’s Pro Arte Quartet perform Scarlatti, Mozart and Brahms this coming Saturday night and Sunday afternoon at Farley’s
By Jacob Stockinger Acclaimed Israeli pianist Alon Goldstein (below, in a photo by Cigna Magnoli) returns to Madison this weekend for a Salon Piano Series concert in which he will be joined by University of Wisconsin-Madison’s own Pro Arte Quartet. There will be two performances: on Saturday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m.; and on Sunday, March […]
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2017-06-16 12:48:57
Opera Essentials: Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto
[…] provided the full, complex orchestral textures that the Milanese favoured. Mitridate began rehearsals on 5 or 6 December 1770, around the same time as Mozart’s 15th birthday. The premiere was on 26 December, with the young composer conducting. Although the opera was successful and ran for 22 performances, it then disappeared from the repertory for two centuries. From French drama to Italian opera seria Mitridate, re di Ponto has a libretto (by Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi ) loosely based on the French dramatist Racine ’s acclaimed 17th century play Mithridate , in turn based very loosely on the real-life story of the despotic king Mithridates VI of Pontus . The subject was popular with 18th-century opera composers. Mozart’s opera, even more than Racine’s play, deviates considerably from historical fact, in order to accommodate the love triangles and themes of honour and ambition expected in opera seria . A singers’ opera […]
2017-03-06 14:41:35
Sleep, my love
On this day in 1831 Vincenzo Bellini‘s La Sonnambula premiered in Milan. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h8F4GAbE-s Born on this day in 1870 composer Oscar Straus. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7_7a7Psh1w Born on this day in 1890 tenor Fernand Ansseau. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxJuKVV3_Xs Born on this day in 1900 soprano Gina Cigna. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBxaJW9jS9k Born on this day in 1921 conductor Julius Rudel. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=g91F890uWQc Born on this day in 1924 conductor and director Sarah Caldwell. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WiVirmRfEw Born on this day in 1927 bass-baritone Norman Treigle. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpH2uNO05OE Born on this day in 1930 composer and conductor Lorin Maazel. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CbfBZzaWlY Happy 74th birthday tenor Michail Svetlev. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2bjK3SfHfg Happy 73rd birthday soprano Kiri Te Kanawa. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT302zBTbok Happy 71st birthday soprano Nan Christie. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_56vkpVCSk Happy belated birthday to parterre scribe Todd Koenig. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBPGCymHS_w
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