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2024-03-28
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2024-03-26 08:10:00
A radical new look: full line-up for Nevill Holt's 2024 festival
[…] by Anthony Caro across the Nevill Holt estate alongside an outdoor sculpture collection including work by Antony Gormley, Rachel Whiteread, Allen Jones, Conrad Shawcross, Marc Quinn and Sean Henry. There will be a screening of Vinny Rawding and Lee Cogswell's BOTY, and there will be conversations with sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, photographer David Yarrow, artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman, sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green and artist Allen Jones. Talks include Simon Martin on British Pop Art, and Daniel Hermann on the work of Eduardo Paolozzi.On 14 and 15 June there is an extensive programme of conversations and talks, along with a free, hands-on archaeological exhibition for families based on objects found in the local area with University of Leicester Archaeological Services. For families there is also Madame Chandelier’s Opera Party for Kids which celebrates opera’s greatest hits in an interactive format. Over 1,500 primary schoolchildren will create 50-minute versions of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel […]
2024-03-21 10:16:00
The Queen of Spades, Deutsche Oper, 20 March 2024
PIQUE DAME von Pjotr I. Tschaikowskij, Premiere am 9. März 2024 in der Deutschen Oper Berlin, copyright: Marcus LieberenzCountess (Doris Soffel) and Hermann (Martin Muehle)Hermann – Martin Muehle Tomsky – Lucio Gallo Prince Yeletsky – Thomas Lehman Chekalinsky – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Surin – Kyle Miller Chaplitsky – Andrew Dickinson Narumov – Artur Garbas Master of Ceremonies – Jörg Schörner The Countess – Doris Soffel Lisa – Maria Motolygina Pauline – Karia Tucker Governess – Nicole Piccolomini Masha – Arianna Manganello Children’s commander – Sofia Kaspruk Little Hermann – Aleksandr Sher Little Lisa – Alma Kraushaar Stage piano – Jisu Park Old servant – Wolfgang SiebnerDirector – Sam BrownDesigner – Stuart NunnChoreography – Ron HowellVideo – Martin EidenbergerLighting – Linus FellbornAssistant directors – Constanze Weidknecht, Silke SenseDramaturgy – Konstantin ParnianChildren’s Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Christian Lindhorst)Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Jeremy Bines)Statisterie, and Opernballet of the Deutsche OperSebastian Weigle […]
2024-03-04 15:36:37
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part II, 2024
[…] over, Dallapiccola’s life stabilized. His opera Il prigioniero (The Prisoner), which he composed during the years 1944-48, was premiered in 1950 in Florence (the opera was based in part on the cycle Canti di prigionia, the first song of which we presented in our entry last week). The opera's music was serialist; it was one of the first complete operas in this style, as Berg’s Lulu, the first serialist opera, had not yet been finished. Hermann Scherchen, one of the utmost champions of 20th-century music, conducted the premiere. Despite the music’s complexity, it was often performed in the 1950s and ‘60s. Times have changed, but it’s still being performed, occasionally. Here is the Prologue and the first Intermezzo (Choral) of the opera, about eight minutes of music. It was recorded live in Bologna on April 16th of 2011; Valentina Corradetti is the soprano singing the role of Mother, the orchestra […]
2024-01-26 05:00:00
Charles Groves (and others) conducts
[…] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Drei Deutsche Tänze, K.60509 Henri Pierné: Marche des petits soldats de plomb, op.14 no.610 Leroy Anderson: Plink, Plank, Plunk! *11 Jean Gabriel-Marie II: La Cinquantaine12 Ludwig van Beethoven: Marcia alla Turca from 'Die Ruinen von Athen', op.11313 Emile Waldteufel: Estudiantina. Waltz, op.19114 Eduard Poldini: La Poupée Valsante15 Leon Jessel: Parade der Zinsoldaten16 Jacques Offenbach: Barcarolle from 'Les Contes d'Hoffmann'17 Leroy Anderson: The Walzing Cat *18 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: Procession of the Sirdar, op.1019 Hermann Necke: Csikos Post20 Leroy Anderson: A Trumpeter's Lullaby21 Aram Khachaturian: Sabre Dance from 'Gayane' *Total time: 72'50.Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Charles GrovesDenon CO-73674 [recorded August and November * 1988; CD issued 1989, digital download 2009][digital download; flacs, cover and (poor) inlay scans - no booklet]Recording venues: Henry Wood Hall and EMI Abbey Road Studios *, LondonRecording engineers: Michael Sheady and Mark Vigars *; Producers: Shigakazu Tanaka and Roy Emerson *Sir Charles' Precious Music Box […]
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