Sunday, April 28, 2013

And the dark became desire: Renée Fleming and the NYPhil at Carnegie Hall

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The centerpiece of Friday evening's Carnegie Hall concert was unquestionably Anders Hillborg's The Strand Settings , a song cycle c...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Giulio Cesare: Dà pace all'armi!

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David McVicar presents Handel's  Giulio Cesare as a witty, knowing fable about imperialist projects giving way to cooperation based ...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Interval Adventures: Visiting Verdi Square

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Thanks to Italian-American philanthropy of the early twentieth century, Papa Verdi has a square named after him and a ...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

I Lombardi alla prima crociata: o nuovo incanto

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The Siege of Jerusalem, 1099 (from a 12th-century chronicle) Verdi's fourth opera, written when he was 29 years old, was penned a...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Aspergimi d'issopo e sarò mondo: Puccini's "Girl" and her gospel

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Fanciulla del West's first cast (1910) As I'm a member of a high liturgical tradition, I spent this evening at a Tenebrae servi...
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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Eliogabalo: eccomi trasformato

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That Francesco Cavalli's Eliogabalo survives at all is something of a historical improbability. The experienced and popular op...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Bach's Mass in B Minor with the NYPhil

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I have to accept the way [Bach] believed. His music never stops praying.... I do not believe in the Gospels in a literal fashion, but a Ba...