“Gypsies! Filthy, dirty, thieving gypsies!” cried Amy Sedaris as Jerri Blank from one delightful Strangers With Candy episode years back. For those who have experienced a forced ‘chance’ meeting with one of these colorful characters in say, Granada, Spain, they may have espoused a similar belief in recent years.
Renato Bruson — Live in Concert
One sign that a media market has really come into its own, economically speaking, is the appearance of items previously released in other formats, items that one struggles to imagine a wide market for. DVDs must be doing fairly well, then, in the classical market.
Heine and Schumann ó Wigmore Hall, London
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1801326,00.html
‘Angels in America,’ Already Operatic, Is Now Presented as an Opera
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/19/arts/music/19ange.html
An Arcadian setting where rarities flourish
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/60b6ae24-ff30-11da-84f3-0000779e2340.html
WAGNER: Der fliegende Holl‰nder
Der fliegende Holl‰nder. Romantic opera in 3 acts.
Music composed by Richard Wagner. Libretto by the composer.
HURWITZ: Exploring HaydnóA Listener’s Guide to Music’s Boldest Innovator
The world of J.S. Haydn is one gravely underappreciated and undervalued. He never earned the right to a 1980’s bio pic like Mozart or was appreciated and saluted in pop culture through early rock n’ roll like
Beethoven.
“Castrato” ó In Search of a Lost Voice
Nestling artistically in a bowl, carefully arranged and lit to suit the camera early in the programme, the testicles seemed to glow softly with their hidden history, their inherent potential and, now, their very lack of future.