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Month: October 2005
Guaranteed to raise the roof
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-1845565,00.html
Toby Spence/Julian Milford at Wigmore Hall, London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1602674,00.html
Brisk and bracing march through some preposterous plotting
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ROSSINI: La Cenerentola
Naxos is perhaps the only significant major label regularly releasing complete opera sets. A few have won widespread praise, and certainly the prices, at super-budget level, make them attractive to both first-time buyers and those whose collections scarcely justify an additional set.
ALBRIGHT: Berlioz’s Semi-Operas
This book examines two of the more interesting musical pieces of the Romantic movement: Romeo et Juliette (1839) and La damnation de Faust (1846). Both were composed by Hector Berlioz (1803-69), and were very much constructed in a Gesamtkunstwerk mode where literature, music, and the other arts are fused together in a hybrid style that defies genre and categorization.
ìLa Muette de Porticiî : a small revolt in Ghent
No opera history is complete without mentioning that Auberís La Muette de Portici caused Belgiumís revolution against Holland in 1830. As a historian I know there are three falsehoods in that one small sentence.
Great Operatic Arias, Vol. 17 ó Christine Brewer
Beethoven Shines Thru the Mix
In the best of all possible worlds this recording of arias and show tunes would have been done in the original languages, the language of composition, with the vocal sounds intended by Gluck, Mozart, Weber, Wagner and others who defined great singing.
The Paris Opera Scene
The city-funded ThÈ‚tre du Ch‚telet, an operatic David to Paris Operaís Goliath, managed to make the biggest artistic splash of the new season. Richard Wagnerís Die Walk¸re, which opened October 21, following Das Rheingold by two days, was generally well cast, surely conducted and, as staged by Robert Wilson, brimming with theatrical interest. The two final operas will follow in November/December with two complete cycles offered in April.