It is a mystery as complex as the Kirovís Ring Cycle staging and equally inexplicable.
Month: January 2007
ARBOS: El Centro de la Tierra
Most heroes in costume drama movies speak lines directly from our own time. Iíve yet to see a cinematic Roman general, being a serious hero, look at an animalís liver and says: ì this smells bad; no battle todayî.
Le Donne di Puccini
The recording date is given as November the 12th 1994. Since recording sessions usually last more than one day, and as a radio orchestra is playing, we may safely assume this CD to be derived from a public broadcasted concert by the ë4 sopranosí capitalizing on the concept made popular by Domingo, Carreras, and Pavarotti.
WNO Season to Include Domingo Singing Handel
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/10/AR2007011002258.html
MOZART: CosÏ fan tutte
The booklet essay by Gottfried Kraus (translated from the German by Stewart Spencer) for this TDK release of the 1983 Salzburg CosÏ fan tutte presents an intriguing history of the opera, with the Austrian festival taking in a central role in the work’s return to the standard repertory.
MARTIN?: Peach Blossom; The Orphan and Other Songs
The artsong in the twentieth century benefits from the efforts of national composers, like Bohuslav Martin? (1890ñ1959), who stimulated the genre by incorporating regional folk elements into their music.