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Month: July 2006
Going Out in St. Petersburg: Mantegna Loans, `Godunov’ Turmoil
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aZhFoBuLz3do&refer=culture
HAYDN: Arias & Cantatas
In a room filled with music scholars, conversations surrounding the name Franz Joseph Haydn would be synonymous with symphonic music, keyboard works, operas, string quartets, and vocal music.
Dmitri Shostakovich: A Portrait
2006 is a centenary year of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) – a great Russian composer of the 20th century, and a complicated and tortured soul whose posthumous legacy has been a subject of heated ideological debates in recent years.
Celebrating a trailblazing mezzo-soprano
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/07/07/celebrating_a_trailblazing_mezzo_soprano/
BIZET: Carmen
OpÈra comique in four acts.
Music composed by Georges Bizet (1838-1875). Libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic HalÈvy after Prosper MÈrimÈe’s novella, Carmen.
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Was Ferrier of Our Era: Norman Lebrecht
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aP6y.wYP9on4&refer=culture
GESUALDO DA VENOSA: Quarto Libro di Madrigali
MONTEVERDI: Madrigals Book 4
Two sets of madrigals, each the fourth book published by its composer, give complementary views of the state of madrigal composition in Italy in the years either side of 1600.