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« on: 23:31:39, 19-03-2008 » |
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Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entflossen,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschlossen,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür!
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Swan_Knight
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« Reply #1 on: 23:42:41, 19-03-2008 » |
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Terfel will only sing the Hollander for a Welsh audience!  Nice to see Die Tote Stadt in black and white - and a timely revival of Elektra. |
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #2 on: 23:43:51, 19-03-2008 » |
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Thanks for posting that link, Ruth.
Mathilde di Shabran and Die Tote Stadt look must-see new productions. I've never seen Hoffmann on the stage, so that's tempting.
A new Dutchman with Bryn too...plus I Capuleti with Netrebko and Garanca, Keenlyside, DiDonato and Florez in Barber of Seville
The Verdi Requiem in March should be worth going to as well...
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #3 on: 23:46:41, 19-03-2008 » |
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That's one of the most labyrinthine press releases I've ever seen, Ruth. There's some good stuff in there, but nothing that makes me want to book a trip down specially....
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« Reply #4 on: 23:47:10, 19-03-2008 » |
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Lots of new music I see. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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Ruth Elleson
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« Reply #5 on: 23:50:04, 19-03-2008 » |
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That's one of the most labyrinthine press releases I've ever seen, Ruth. There's some good stuff in there, but nothing that makes me want to book a trip down specially....
They're always like that, Ron. The Royal Opera's, I mean. |
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« Reply #6 on: 00:18:10, 20-03-2008 » |
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Lots of new music I see. Oh, you spotted that as well! Funny that... |
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Reiner Torheit
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« Reply #7 on: 09:25:06, 20-03-2008 » |
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There's good & bad here Alden's CALISTO comes to London  The Beggar's Opera is back in London at last But in the Benjamin Britten reworking - why??  Lucy Crowe and Sarah Connolly turn up at the ROH at last. Dominique Visse appears in a minor counter-tenor role  It was enough to put your teeth on edge when I last heard him  |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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George Garnett
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« Reply #8 on: 09:38:17, 20-03-2008 » |
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Gosh! Alfie Boe in Elektra. That'll cause much spluttering over the breakfast kedgeree and kippers.
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« Reply #9 on: 09:41:31, 20-03-2008 » |
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Is he playing the lead?
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George Garnett
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« Reply #10 on: 09:48:24, 20-03-2008 » |
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Gosh! Alfie Boe in Elektra. Is he playing the lead?
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« Reply #11 on: 09:50:25, 20-03-2008 » |
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Is it wrong to be impressed by Mr. Boe's participation in this event?
He's got a strong cross-over career underway, yet he's taking time out to sing a very minor supporting role in a piece of 'high' art.
Or was this booking made long before his career took off and he's being forced to honour it?
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #12 on: 10:36:23, 20-03-2008 » |
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It's also possible to read his participation as a sensible start to a proper 'operatic' career by working through some smaller and lighter roles before taking on the bigger stuff.
The Britten version of The Beggar's Opera is something of a rarity: since Richard Hickox is listed as a conductor, I have a suspicion that it may be tied up with his ongoing Chandos recording project of the operas. Albeit that I turned it off when it was shown on TV (sometime in the 60s, I'd guess), having heard it since I'd suggest that it's more deserving of an outing than Reiner credits.
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #13 on: 10:56:35, 20-03-2008 » |
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The Britten version of The Beggar's Opera is something of a rarity:
I thought the ROH didn't do musicals? Presumably with a proper operatic composer it is OK? |
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A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #14 on: 11:10:55, 20-03-2008 » |
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The Britten version of The Beggar's Opera is something of a rarity:
I thought the ROH didn't do musicals? Presumably with a proper operatic composer it is OK? It is by a proper operatic composer - Pepusch  Why they have chosen to perform Britten's "version" is a mystery I dislike the term "musical" used about THE BEGGARS OPERA... it's a play with music, but has nothing to do with the genre of SOUTH PACIFIC or BILLY ELLIOTT. |
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