A 1979 recording originally released on LP in 1985, the CD reissue of this classic performance of Schoenbergís 1913 cantata Gurrelieder as part of its series entitled Originals makes this fine account of this magnificent work available to another generation of listeners.
Month: December 2007
Belfast welcomes a first-rate Messiah
If Belfast in Northern Ireland isnít a city that immediately springs to mind as a centre of musical excellence then itís not for want of talent, initiative and professionalism within its cultural community.
OONY Performs Verdi’s I Due Foscari
After the triumph of his fifth opera, Ernani, Verdi could have gone on writing howling melodramas and made a mint.
New York City Ballet and New York City Opera Agree to Improvements in the New York State Theater
http://www.nycopera.com/about/press/detail.aspx?rid=68
Danielle de Niese is operaës young star
http://www.leadingthecharge.com/ViewArticle.aspx?id=217874&source=2
WAGNER: Gˆtterd‰mmerung
You will wonder what designer Rosalie could have been thinking when she put Brunnhilde in trousers twice as wide at the waist as the soprano wearing them, with a nippled plastic bustier above.
Magdalena Kozena: This is what happens to Madonna
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/12/13/bmkozena113.xml
Prolific composer wrote opera based on Stegner’s ‘Angle of Repose’
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-imbrie12dec12,1,7523159.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california