Victor de Sabata News
Italian conductor and composer (1892-1967)
- opera, classical music
- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- conductor, composer, pianist, music director
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2024-02-02 11:48:00
From forgotten arias in a pasticcio based on Balzac's Sarrasine to a forgotten instrument: Göttingen International Handel Festival announces the 2024 programme under George Petrou
[…] ideal woman but who proves to be a castrato performing female roles. Counter-tenor/sopranist Samuel Marino as Zambinella. The production is directed by Laurence Dale and George Petrou conducts.Before the festival proper there is a pre-opening tempter, former festival artistic director Nicholas McGegan conducts the NDR Radiophilharmonie in Handel's early oratorio Deborah. Then the festival proper opens with Handel's Italian oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Petrou conducting the festival orchestra and counter-tenor Xavier Sabata as Disinganno, whilst later comes Israel in Egypt.Modern reflections include Handel on the saxophone with Lutz Koppetsch, Michel Godara playing that rare instrument, the serpent, jazz singer Efrat Afony, alongside performances from more well-known names including Andrew Foster-Williams, Emoke Barath, Ruby Hughes and Juan Sancho. And of course, there is the festival's Handel competition too.Full details from the festival website.
2023-12-01 10:37:00
Monteverdi's first opera, the historically informed Ring Cycle continues, Bruckner's 200th birthday, composer Sven Helbig live - Dresden's 47th music festival
[…] Tarrodi, Sibelius and Dvorak, violinist Daniel Hope, cellist Jan Vogler (intendant of the festival), Deutsches Symphonie-orchester Berlin and Anna Rakitina in Florence Price, Tchaikovsky and Miklós Rózsa's Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Cello and Orchestra Op. 29, violinist Elen Urioste joins Chineke! for Fela Sowándé, Cassie Kinoshi and Max Richter. Jan Vogler joins the Philharmonia Orchestra and Santtu-Matias Rouvali for Anna Clyne's Cello Concerto. Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Dresden Philharmonic are performing a group of concerts including music by Stravinsky, Prokofiev Countertenor Xavier Sabata will be joining the saxophone quartet Kebyart for everything from Handel to Gershwin and behond, soprano Simone Kermes joins with Amici Veneziani, baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Markus Hinterhäuser in Schumann. Pianist recitals include Francesco Piemontesi in Beethoven & Debussy, Igor Levitt in Mahler arranged Ronald Stevenson, Hindemith and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony arranged Liszt, Anton Meijas, and Seong-Jin Cho.Composer Sven Helbig will be presenting his radio show, Schöne Töne, live on stage.Full details from the festival's website. […]
2022-04-11 14:59:35
Victor de Sabata, part II, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: April 11, 2022. Conductors, continued. Last week we started with five famous conductors that were born that week: the Frenchman Pierre Monteux, the German Herbert von Karajan, the British Adrian Boult, the Hungarian-American Antal Doráti, and the Italian Victor de Sabata. We spent much time with de Sabata, following his career till the end of WWII, and we did so because this wonderful conductor isn’t that well known in the US. So, here’s a bit more on Sabata. His previous association with Mussolini didn’t affect Sabata’s international standing, even though in 1950 he was briefly detained in the US under the soon-to-be abolished McCarran Act (his concert at Carnegie Hall ran on schedule and to great acclaim – the recording of the excerpts from Tristan un Isolde which we presented the last week came from that concert). Sabata’s base was La Scala, with which he made […]
2022-04-04 14:22:26
Victor de Sabata, part I, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: April 4, 2022. Conductors. Five famous conductors were born this week: the Frenchman Pierre Monteux on April 4th of 1875, the German Herbert von Karajan, on April 5th of 1908, the British Adrian Boult on April 8th of 1889, the Hungarian-American Antal Doráti on April 9th of 1906, and the Italian Victor de Sabata on April 10th of 1892. Before we delve into their careers, let us make a non-musical comment: conductors seem to live a long life! Of this group, Boult lived the longest, almost 94 years, de Sabata – the shortest, 75 years. On average, they lived 84 years. Do you know what the life expectancy at birth was around the time when our conductors were born? An astonishingly short 41 years! One could reasonably respond that at that time the child mortality rate was very high, and once one made it past the […]
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