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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #60 on: 22:43:48, 27-02-2008 »
Not CM - I do have the details but only on my work computer.  My memory says Jurowski, but I'm not sure.  Will supply further info tomorrow Smiley
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« Reply #61 on: 22:53:38, 27-02-2008 »
Can I hear see a r3ok works outing in the offing here?  Smiley    "Oh-Sod!" (to keep up the "Derek & Clive" patter) is my personal favourite of the Janacek operas,  despite its peculiar (to say the least) libretto.   For those opening bars alone,  in which the distorted frolics of the spa-town of Marianske Lazne appear out of a tortuous fog of memories,  it's a masterpiece Smiley   Is there any clue if it's a "Brit" cast, or a native Czech team?   I still hold-out a hope of seeing Barstow sing the Mother Wink
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« Reply #62 on: 22:59:01, 27-02-2008 »
I don't have any casting info.

But I might have a date, and the name of an orchestra... (again not on me at this precise moment).
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« Reply #63 on: 15:41:49, 29-02-2008 »
Further to previous Proms hint, my memory let me down - it's not Jurowski, but Belohlavek and the BBCSO.  I am led to understand that it's on 21/08/08, which is the Thursday before Bank Holiday Monday.  I don't know anything else about it.
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« Reply #64 on: 16:43:36, 29-02-2008 »
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Belohlavek and the BBCSO

Now you're talking!  I couldn't see how Jurowski could do it in parallel with his commitments at Glyndebourne, unless it was actually GFO who were bringing it?   I'd be up for an August outing... (I am let off my regular summer gig in Mongolia, for good behaviour Smiley - let's hope there's a suitably cracking cast! Smiley
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« Reply #65 on: 20:51:20, 29-02-2008 »
I'm not that taken with Belohlavek as a Janacek conductor (mind you, we've been spoilt rotten on that front for several decades!), but it's good to hear that a performance of Osud is on the cards.

Glad to see that IGI had a good time at Rusalka. A friend just recently went to see it in Brno, with the veteran Richard Novak (now well into his seventies) as Vodnik, and apparently very good. Tickets were all of 50p ...
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« Reply #66 on: 21:12:01, 01-03-2008 »
Quote from: Ruth Elleson on 15:41:49, 29-02-2008
Further to previous Proms hint, my memory let me down - it's not Jurowski, but Belohlavek and the BBCSO.  I am led to understand that it's on 21/08/08, which is the Thursday before Bank Holiday Monday.  I don't know anything else about it.

Thanks, Ruth.  There's nothing in my diary for 21st August and it will take something special to displace this. Jiri is fine by me; to my shame I can't remember who was conducting when I saw it in Prague but it wasn't Belohlavek - who was in the pit for Rusalka the night after conducting a concert at the Rudolfinum.  Osud must have been his night off!   
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« Reply #67 on: 22:00:29, 01-03-2008 »
Quote from: opilec on 20:51:20, 29-02-2008
(mind you, we've been spoilt rotten on that front for several decades!)

That's an interesting question, Opi... as you go there quite frequently, what's the Czech "take" on Mackerras's approach?  Or Boulez's for that matter?   Russians have allowed Tchaikovsky and Mussorgsky to walk to school without mummy taking them these days, but when foreigners take-up the baton with DSCH (although not with Prokofiev) their tolerance seems very muted... "hmmm, not bad, I suppose", and "quite good, considering" etc.  I wondered what Czechs made of this "British" school of Janacek performance...  and indeed of the British productions which are so radically different to anything you might see at the Narodny Divadlo?  Do they think we "understand" Janacek... or is it some rose-tinted enthusiasm on the part of some charming but misguided foreigners?
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