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2019-10-14 01:19:04
BY KIYA VAN DER LINDEN-KIAN Spaces of Life and DeathEli Simic-Prosic (composer/curator), Elliott Gyger (conductor), Tamara Kohler (flutes), Kaylie Melville (percussion), Gemma Kneale (cello), Jacob
2018-03-12 01:23:04
BY ELI SIMIC-PROSIC On November 12, Eli’s work Festivities of Fragment was premiered in Shanghai by Zhang Liang, pipa soloist Xu Jiaxin and the
2016-10-27 20:20:41
Journey to the center of the mirth
From 2008, Unnatural Acts of Opera recalls 1988, when Rossini’s Il viaggo a Reims invaded the Wiener Staatoper. Corinna: Cecilia Gasdia Marchesa Melibea: Lucia Valentini-Terrani Contessa di Folleville: Lella Cuberli Madama Cortese: Montserrat Caballe Cavalier Belfiore: Frank Lopardo Conte di Libenskof: Chris Merritt Lord Sidney: Ferruccio Furlanetto Don Profondo: Ruggero Raimondi Barone di Trombonok: Enzo Dara Don Alvaro: Lucio Gallo Don Prudenzio: Goran Simic Don Luigino: Paolo Pellegrini Maddalena: Gabriele Sima Modestina: Barbara Frittoli Antonio: Marzio Giossi Gelsomino: Ezio Pirovano. Vienna Opera, 20 January 1988. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Also featured: La Cieca’s celebrated “Grand Hotel” sketch.
2016-01-23 03:30:00
Opera Favourites #3 - Il Cigno di Busseto
Undisputed master of the melodramma and creator of a thousand magical operatic moments, Verdi is a composer I revere with utmost deference, and certainly deem as Padre dell'Opera Italiana, yet I've gradually grown apart from most of his production in the past two decades, and the works I now really love are but a few. Otello is a downright masterpiece, possibly the greatest and most profound operatic effort of the Italian repertoire of all time, and although dotted with unmistakable Wagnerian echoes, it is pure Verdi. Falstaff is another gem, and features some of the Maestro's most touching and exquisite moments, same for Don Carlo (the French version in 5 Acts and with an "S" is here offered only for "academic purposes", as it is - frankly - a rather unfortunate weirdness). For a master of the stage like Verdi, whose finali are usually the most thrilling part of […]
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