OrphÈe: Opera in four acts.
Music composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck (arranged by Hector Berlioz, 1859).
Libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi
Month: January 2008
GLUCK/BERLIOZ: OrphÈe
Wo viele gern in die Oper gehen
WILHELM SINKOVICZ [Die Presse, 10 January 2008] Lokalaugenschein in Pressburg, wo das Nationaltheater f¸r Verdi, Donizetti & Co. noch Regie statt Regietheater bietet und Stimmen zu entdecken sind. ÑWiens drittes…
Judith Weir: What Tavener and Copland taught me
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/01/10/bmweir110.xml
Simon Keenlyside, Wigmore Hall, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/7f976a24-bfa3-11dc-8052-0000779fd2ac.html
Opera Manager Joan Ingpen Dies at 91
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iz_De0NUsuiZsjxUrtH-rsyv-vLgD8U2EOU00
Maazel at the Met, Br¸nnhilde in a Bind
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/arts/music/09walk.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin
ROUSSEAU: Le Devin du Village
This is a valuable new recording of a work that is only rarely heard, but was widely influential and wildly popular during the eighteenth century. Philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote both the libretto and the music, with mixed success.
Les …lÈmens
This disc is well worth the price for the first track alone: the opening measures of Jean-FÈry Rebelís ìCahos,î (Chaos), written in 1737 or 1738, may cause you to wonder if you accidentally left a Stockhausen or Ligeti disc in the changer.
Oppenheimer opera charts new course in music
In this country art and politics are rarely bedfellows — strange or otherwise; indeed, it’s seldom that the two meet under the same roof.