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American opera singer (1945-2007)
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2022-08-31 06:24:58
Born on this day in 1918 lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner.
2022-05-23 06:17:31
Anglais - Nothing to Frighten the Horses in My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion of 1913. Set in Edwardian London, it sees phonetician Professor Henry Higgins make a bet with one Colonel Pickering that he cannot pass off Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, as a lady. He intends to do so by giving her intensive speech lessons with the test being whether she can fool everyone at an Embassy Ball. She succeeds when a rival phonetician insists she must be an Hungarian princess, but Higgins takes all the credit for the triumph as if none of it was down to Eliza herself. Through this and other actions, he shows himself to be cynical, thoughtless and supposedly impervious to women’s charms, but still it becomes obvious that he does have feelings for her. Eliza also develops some for him, which makes it even harder for her when […]
2021-12-31 12:11:17
[…] in Handel's Amadigi di Gaula From 17th century masque to TV reality show: Blackheath Halls Opera's imaginative take on John Blow's Venus and Adonis Lyric intensity: Gluck's Paride ed Elena (Paris and Helen) receives its first London staging from Bampton Classical Opera Folk ritual and drama: Mozart's Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera rises to the challenge A little miracle: Grimeborn Festival opens with Wagner's Die Walküre at Hackney Empire Real intimacy: Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady in a concert staging at The Grange Festival A light touch, yet full of character: Mascagni's L'amico Fritz proves an engaging discovery at Opera Holland Park Wonderfully satisfying: a very stylish production of Rossini's La Cenerentola at The Grange Festival Ensemble collaboration: Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music from Opera North and the Leeds Playhouse Grange Park Opera gives us a rare chance to see Rimsky Korskov's […]
2021-11-27 06:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, November 27, 2021
[…] Met: Bryn Terfel & Friends in Concert”Premieres December on PBS. Check local listings.The New York metro area premiere is Sunday, December 12 at 12 p.m. on THIRTEEN.Recorded December 2020, the legendary bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel performs a holiday program with the Welsh traditional folk group Calan from Brecon Cathedral in the singer’s native Wales. In addition to festive favorites such as “Silent Night,” “O Holy Night,” and “O Come All Ye Faithful,” the program includes Lerner and Loewe’s “Little Prince,” and “O du, mein holder Abendstern” from Wagner’s “Tannhäuser.”“Great Performances at the Met: New Year's Eve Gala”Premieres December on PBS. Check local listings.The New York metro area premiere is Sunday, January 2 at 12 p.m. on THIRTEEN.The Met rings in the new year with a gala performance featuring Met stars Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani. Recorded last December from the Parktheater in Kurhaus Göggingen, in Augsburg, […]
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