Sunday, August 23, 2015

Listening Library: Turandot

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There's nothing like blasting an opera on the stereo to help oneself settle into a new place; this is a credo by which I proudly live...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Opera Obsession: the wilderness year(s?)

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Brace yourselves, Gentle Readers: this post may be answering a question nobody is asking. The question is: what is happening to this blog? ...
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Friday, August 7, 2015

Proms Postcard: a belated Beethoven blog post

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 My summer, as you may have suspected, Gentle Readers, was mostly spent in libraries, pursuing the Ph.D. which seems to take up more time...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Reading List: Fidelio, the novel

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It is a matter   of record that I have a particular enthusiasm for Beethoven's Fidelio . I love the orchestration, and how it changes ...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Paisiello's Barber with the OSO: Figaro at the Fabbri Mansion

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Editorial note: please welcome Opera Obsession's first guest blogger: none other than Alex, my Musicologist Roommate , covering ...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Tristan und Isolde: an appreciation

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Twitter informed me this morning that it was the 150th anniversary of Tristan und Isolde 's postponed and scandalous premiere. I felt...
Friday, June 5, 2015

La Traviata with the Twentieth-Century Blues

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It was on an impulse that I went to see the first of two Oxford performances of Opera Up Close 's presentation of La Traviata. Having s...
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