As this is written, the third week of August, the Santa Fe music season is winding down.
Month: August 2011
Caractacus,Three Choirs Festival, Worcester
Superb performance of Elgar’s epic oratorio Caractacus at the The
Three Choirs Festival in Worcester Cathedral.
Santa Fe Musical Delights
Musical excellence was the centerpiece of three of Santa Fe Opera’s annual offerings.
Nino Machaidze: Romantic Arias
The back cover of soprano Nino Machiadze’s debut solo recital from Sony Classical quotes her as describing the disc’s selection of arias as “my world, my successes to date and my hopes for the future.”
Franz Schmidt’s The Book with Seven Seals at Grant Park
In keeping with the festival nature of the piece, the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, along with guest soloists and a guest chorus director, gave two performances of Franz Schmidt’s Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln on recent weekend evenings.
Two one-act comic operas from New York Festival of Song
The New York Festival of Song, created and run by Steven Blier and Michael Barrett, dedicates itself to what one might call “American lieder” — art songs by top American composers, classic Broadway, and operatic numbers.
Mosè in Egitto and Adelaide di Borgogna in Pesaro
It was a no-brainer. The Old Testament Egyptians had to become today’s Palestinians.
Donizetti’s Marino Faliero at the 2008 Bergamo Music Festival
Gaetano Donizetti is arguably the established opera composer with the highest ratio of failures to successes.