Rose Delaunay News
Last update
2024-04-25
Refresh
2015-11-19 15:00:42
Eve of destruction
Mounting Verdi’s French grand operas in their original language is no longer as unusual as it once was, but this week’s “Trove Thursday” presents that rare phenomenon: a Les Vêpres Siciliennes performed by idiomatic Francophone forces, conducted by Pierre-Michel Le Conte and featuring Jacqueline Brumaire, Henri Delaunay, Matteo Manuguerra and Jacques Mars. If one attends Vêpres or Don Carlos or Jérusalem these days, one likely hears an internationalized French style and diction that is far from what one will experience in this 1967 French Radio broadcast which contains a number of cuts. Brumaire made a specialty of Hélêne and may be familiar from the complete BBC performance of Vêpres released on CD by Opera Rara. The marvelous Manuguerra was already in his mid-40s at the time of this broadcast, and in several years he would debut at the Met where he performed for more than 20 years—singing his final […]
2015-06-22 15:56:59
[…] and on and on) with a smattering of works of equally high quality from less well known artists. With our Finnish family connections the best of these was a sequence of four Lake Keitele canvases by Gallen-Kallela displayed along one wall, side by side. Extraordinary and worth missing the D’Orsay, Beaubourg or any other gallery in Paris to go and see if you’re only there for a weekend. And how could I forget toe toon Delaunay’s colossal canvas of the Cardiff rugby team! The painting I’ve only ever seen in reproduction before but which encapsulates the ideas behind my writing on the relationship between art, modernity and sport in Britain and France. The only things in there I wouldn’t have wanted to own were the Picabias. Execrable late period kitsch garbage. Oh well, easily forgotten. I can’t recommend the exhibition enough. There’s a also an exhibition of contemporary art that […]
2014-04-15 15:50:34
Pre-Michigan Prep and Edgar Varese
[…] depicted something else, seen through the painter’s/sculpture’s eyes and interpreted, made into art. At this time, one big idea (among the many) was that objects on a canvas were just that, objects defining the space of the canvas. Artistic works didn’t represent something obvious, they were just themselves. This was a big idea in Varese’s music, that it was not programmatic in any way, it only expressed itself. Rythme, Joie de Vivre by Robert Delaunay This artist had several ideas that Varese admired, especially a complete newness in his work, the emphasis on process, the lack of obvious representation. This is super interesting to me as a performer, because while lots of music claims to only represent itself, it is often very easy to connect to outside influences (the write a story to give your solo meaning approach to interpretation). Varese’s music, in contrast, doesn’t to lend itself […]
2012-03-03 09:30:00
A Café in the Grand Tradition
Gone are the Lion's Corner Houses and afternoon tea has become a complete booking and preparation rigmarole. With queues around the block for the Savoy and Fortnums rammed to the gunnels, caffeinated beverages and accompanying sweet treats often aren't much fun in London. Marking the deficit, while taking inspiration from the grandest cafés in Europe, the Wolseley team has opened up a new hub on the Aldwych. It's called The Delaunay and is open all day. Like its sister operation on Piccadilly, there's a resolute grandness to the setting accompanied by nonchalant ease. I went first thing in the morning. 'Which paper would you like?' was the maître d's opening question, before I could even select my caffeine hit. I half expected him to bring me my mail. The breakfast menu runs to a wide selection of Viennoiseries, Kedgeree, the full English and all the maple-syrupped variations on a theme […]
No more?
Every day soclassiq looks for new articles, videos, concerts and so on about classical music and opera, their artists, venues, orchestras...
Rose Delaunay ? We have not gathered a lot of content on this topic yet but we continue to search.
or
- timeline: Lyrical singers (Europe).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): D...