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2023-10-11 10:00:57
On this day in 1967 the Metropolitan Opera debuts of mezzo Teresa Berganza as Cherubino and baritone Tom Krause as Count Almaviva
2023-02-06 13:00:24
A delicate balance
For anyone who thought that Downton Abbey, with its plot lines divided between the gentry and their faithful (or not-so) servants was somehow unique, that particular tale, and lo its many variations, has been told in one form or another since Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais put quill to paper in 1778 with La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro.
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2021-11-16 13:59:31
Verdi’s opera is not Shakespeare’s play set to music. It’s a different, but equally beautiful, tangle of colour and emotion, and its lead role is one I am still – after many years – getting to grips with The slightly shrill comment that Giuseppe Verdi’s Macbeth is no match for the great Shakespeare play, is an unfair comparison. The opera is another thing entirely. Just as Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro is not the great Beaumarchais play of its day, La Folle Journée. Just as Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville is not Giovanni Paisiello’s version, or Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte inventions. Neither the marvellous Japanese cinematographer Akira Kurosawa, and his reworking of Macbeth in his 1957 film Throne of Blood. Nor the contemporary opera by Thomas Adès, The Tempest. None are Shakespeare. All are different mountain-tops, smithied into something new and equally beautiful in their own ways.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-03-14 09:07:53
French festival chief is fired after British financial audit
The head of of the classical music festival in the cty of Nantes, the Folle Journée de Nantes, has been forced to resign after auditors from KPMG discovered, according to a city press release ‘very significant cash flows linked to advances in salaries and entertainment expenses for the benefit of the Managing Director, which are […]