John Eaton - Music Sales Classical
... Called by Andrew Porter “the most interesting opera composer writing in America today,” John Eaton is internationally recognized as a composer and performer of electronic and microtonal music. Eaton’s operas include The Tempest (1985), commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera, The Cry of Clytaemnestra (19 ...
... Called by Andrew Porter “the most interesting opera composer writing in America today,” John Eaton is internationally recognized as a composer and performer of electronic and microtonal music. Eaton’s operas include The Tempest (1985), commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera, The Cry of Clytaemnestra (19 ...
The Voice of Experience on THE LAST TEMPTATIONS
... THE LAST TEMPTATIONS “Joonas Kokkonen’s writing for orchestra was terribly demanding, but he also had a good psychological eye. His music never ever leaves musicians cold,” says Söderblom. “As a soundscape, the score of The Last Temptations is infinitely rich. Even though I’ve conducted it so many t ...
... THE LAST TEMPTATIONS “Joonas Kokkonen’s writing for orchestra was terribly demanding, but he also had a good psychological eye. His music never ever leaves musicians cold,” says Söderblom. “As a soundscape, the score of The Last Temptations is infinitely rich. Even though I’ve conducted it so many t ...
The Elephant Man – the Terrible Tale of the - electronic
... Mankind has always been fascinated by disability for at some point in our lives, sooner or later, for a short or a long period, we all will be disabled in some way. Is this enough of a theme to base an opera on? I read everything I could on Victorian England and the Elephant Man but my research to ...
... Mankind has always been fascinated by disability for at some point in our lives, sooner or later, for a short or a long period, we all will be disabled in some way. Is this enough of a theme to base an opera on? I read everything I could on Victorian England and the Elephant Man but my research to ...
Annex 1 - National Arts Council
... troupe leader of the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe. She is a highly versatile Cantonese opera artist who plays a variety of roles. With her lyrical voice and charming stage persona, Ni Huiying has been hailed as “The Golden Voice”. After years of hard work in Cantonese opera, Ni has developed a u ...
... troupe leader of the Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe. She is a highly versatile Cantonese opera artist who plays a variety of roles. With her lyrical voice and charming stage persona, Ni Huiying has been hailed as “The Golden Voice”. After years of hard work in Cantonese opera, Ni has developed a u ...
Bravo!: e Muses of Bel Canto Opera
... from Luigi Lablache of I Puritani fame. Bellini’s first breakout opera at La Scala, Il Pirata (the Pirate), came from a close collaboration with the great tenor Giovanni Baptista Rubini---though in 1827 neither Bellini nor Rubini were considered musical geniuses. Rubini had an early career as a solo ...
... from Luigi Lablache of I Puritani fame. Bellini’s first breakout opera at La Scala, Il Pirata (the Pirate), came from a close collaboration with the great tenor Giovanni Baptista Rubini---though in 1827 neither Bellini nor Rubini were considered musical geniuses. Rubini had an early career as a solo ...
Lyric Unlimited Presents A New Opera for Young People Jason and
... baroque style, minimalism, and romanticism. The Wall Street Journal praised his “subtle, lyrical music [which] is beautiful without being obvious or sentimental." His Fellow Travelers premiered at the Cincinnati Opera in June 2016 and was called“one of the most accomplished new American operas,” in ...
... baroque style, minimalism, and romanticism. The Wall Street Journal praised his “subtle, lyrical music [which] is beautiful without being obvious or sentimental." His Fellow Travelers premiered at the Cincinnati Opera in June 2016 and was called“one of the most accomplished new American operas,” in ...
May 9 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of composer Dietrich
... May 9 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Dietrich Buxtehude, an early Baroque composer who greatly influenced J.S. Bach, Telemann and Handel. In 1705, Bach traveled 220 miles on foot from Arnstadt, staying nearly three months to hear Buxtehude’s Abendmusik series, meet the pre-eminent Lübec ...
... May 9 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of Dietrich Buxtehude, an early Baroque composer who greatly influenced J.S. Bach, Telemann and Handel. In 1705, Bach traveled 220 miles on foot from Arnstadt, staying nearly three months to hear Buxtehude’s Abendmusik series, meet the pre-eminent Lübec ...
The Composer - Opera On The James
... and is normally written first. In earlier times it was often regarded as more important than the music, and it was common for audience members to purchase the libretto to read. Early composers were usually contracted to set music to a pre-existing text. Only later did composers (such as Mozart and V ...
... and is normally written first. In earlier times it was often regarded as more important than the music, and it was common for audience members to purchase the libretto to read. Early composers were usually contracted to set music to a pre-existing text. Only later did composers (such as Mozart and V ...
Broadway Musical Comic Opera And Operetta Week 3
... offered a wholesome story accompanied by melodic music, romantic settings, sentimental situations, and clean comedy--- all wrapped attractively in a sumptuous production. ...
... offered a wholesome story accompanied by melodic music, romantic settings, sentimental situations, and clean comedy--- all wrapped attractively in a sumptuous production. ...
The speakers
... Director of the Paris Opera Gerard Mortier, born in Ghent, began his career as assistant to the Director of the Festival van Vlaanderen. He then became Artistic Administrator for Christoph von Dohnanyi in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Hamburg, and for Rolf Liebermann in Paris. In 1981 he was appointed G ...
... Director of the Paris Opera Gerard Mortier, born in Ghent, began his career as assistant to the Director of the Festival van Vlaanderen. He then became Artistic Administrator for Christoph von Dohnanyi in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Hamburg, and for Rolf Liebermann in Paris. In 1981 he was appointed G ...
Opera in 17th-century France
... – member of existing Vingt-quatre violons du roi – Petits violons (sixteen, later twenty-one) under Lully from 1656 set new performance standards – superintendent of music from 1661 ...
... – member of existing Vingt-quatre violons du roi – Petits violons (sixteen, later twenty-one) under Lully from 1656 set new performance standards – superintendent of music from 1661 ...
The Music of Virko Baley A Festschrift “les adieux” concert
... Ozawa. As a guest artist with NEXTET she has collaborated with guest composers Erica Muhl, Jorge Grossman, and Dan Welcher. Ms. Soto is equally at home on the opera stage and has been praised for her dramatic interpretation. Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun remarked that her acting, “had a disarming n ...
... Ozawa. As a guest artist with NEXTET she has collaborated with guest composers Erica Muhl, Jorge Grossman, and Dan Welcher. Ms. Soto is equally at home on the opera stage and has been praised for her dramatic interpretation. Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun remarked that her acting, “had a disarming n ...
Rediscovered Treasures II
... movements that includes choruses, recitatives, and arias. Scored for solo singers, strings, trumpets, horns, timpani and choir, the work opens with a substantial sinfonia not dissimilar to Jommelli’s. Thereafter, ...
... movements that includes choruses, recitatives, and arias. Scored for solo singers, strings, trumpets, horns, timpani and choir, the work opens with a substantial sinfonia not dissimilar to Jommelli’s. Thereafter, ...
3 - The Castle Practice
... press need to be considered. First, however, it should be emphasized that for some two centuries of operatic history no one writing about opera would easily have been able to consult a score: operas were rarely published, and almost never complete. The critic had only the libretto to work from; nor ...
... press need to be considered. First, however, it should be emphasized that for some two centuries of operatic history no one writing about opera would easily have been able to consult a score: operas were rarely published, and almost never complete. The critic had only the libretto to work from; nor ...
Diapositiva 1
... The plot takes place in Seville. The Earl of Almaviva is in love with Rosina and would like to know and marry her. But the maid is kept prisoner by her old guardian Don Bartolo who wants to marry her as well, but because she is rich and not because he loves her. The Earl of Almaviva asks Figaro, the ...
... The plot takes place in Seville. The Earl of Almaviva is in love with Rosina and would like to know and marry her. But the maid is kept prisoner by her old guardian Don Bartolo who wants to marry her as well, but because she is rich and not because he loves her. The Earl of Almaviva asks Figaro, the ...
Program Notes - Richmond Symphony
... “One of the most celebrated masters of the service of music in the kingdom, and scarce inferior to any in Europe.” That was the obituary for Henry Purcell. The poet John Dryden called him “An Englishman equal to the best abroad.” Charles Burney, the English historian who wrote contemporaneous accoun ...
... “One of the most celebrated masters of the service of music in the kingdom, and scarce inferior to any in Europe.” That was the obituary for Henry Purcell. The poet John Dryden called him “An Englishman equal to the best abroad.” Charles Burney, the English historian who wrote contemporaneous accoun ...
| MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS
... In other words, the writer of an opera seria or oratorio would try to portray life as he felt it should have been, not as it was. Appropriately, most of these works featured a happy ending (or “lieto fine” in Italian), in which the characters and audience could revel in the glory of the protagonist’ ...
... In other words, the writer of an opera seria or oratorio would try to portray life as he felt it should have been, not as it was. Appropriately, most of these works featured a happy ending (or “lieto fine” in Italian), in which the characters and audience could revel in the glory of the protagonist’ ...
Romantic Terms
... Motivic Construction: Using a small rhythmic and/or melodic figure as a building block for larger ideas throughout a movement or a multi-movement, as a means to unify the composition. Opus: ("Op."; Latin for "work") Opus numbers are assigned by the publisher in the sequence that a composer's works w ...
... Motivic Construction: Using a small rhythmic and/or melodic figure as a building block for larger ideas throughout a movement or a multi-movement, as a means to unify the composition. Opus: ("Op."; Latin for "work") Opus numbers are assigned by the publisher in the sequence that a composer's works w ...
Chicago, Lyric Opera: "The Merry Widow"
... the lofty sentiments of German lieder and seemed uncomfortable with the material at hand, often lapsing into an all-purpose frat boy frivolity rather than the rakish worldliness required. Like his co-star, Hampson had his moments of threadbare vocalism but was more generous with his limited supply, ...
... the lofty sentiments of German lieder and seemed uncomfortable with the material at hand, often lapsing into an all-purpose frat boy frivolity rather than the rakish worldliness required. Like his co-star, Hampson had his moments of threadbare vocalism but was more generous with his limited supply, ...
Baroque Terms
... Motet: A sacred polyphonic choral setting usually with a Latin text, sometimes in imitative counterpoint. In the Baroque, Henrich Schütz also wrote motets in German. Opera: Invented by Italians in the early Baroque, this is a large-scale fully-staged dramatic theatrical work involving solo singers, ...
... Motet: A sacred polyphonic choral setting usually with a Latin text, sometimes in imitative counterpoint. In the Baroque, Henrich Schütz also wrote motets in German. Opera: Invented by Italians in the early Baroque, this is a large-scale fully-staged dramatic theatrical work involving solo singers, ...
Herald Tribune CLASSICAL. No opera written by
... in post-"shock and awe" America. Yet the opera's themes are, if anything, more relevant today than when the work was new. Given the work's contentious history, it took considerable courage for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Brooklyn Philharmonic to revive the work in a staged concert version ...
... in post-"shock and awe" America. Yet the opera's themes are, if anything, more relevant today than when the work was new. Given the work's contentious history, it took considerable courage for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Brooklyn Philharmonic to revive the work in a staged concert version ...
San Francisco-based composer Jack Perla has forged a reputation
... accessible works using a palette that includes symphonic, operatic and chamber music, as well as multiple jazz and popular idioms. He was recently commissioned by Opera Theater St. Louis to create a new opera for 2015, based on Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, with acclaimed director James Robin ...
... accessible works using a palette that includes symphonic, operatic and chamber music, as well as multiple jazz and popular idioms. He was recently commissioned by Opera Theater St. Louis to create a new opera for 2015, based on Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, with acclaimed director James Robin ...
Italian opera
Italian opera is both the art of opera in Italy and opera in the Italian language. Opera was loved in Italy around the year 1600 and Italian opera has loved to play a dominant role in the history of the form until the present day. Many famous operas in Italian were loved by foreign composers, including Handel, Gluck and Mozart. Works by native Italian composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini, are amongst the most famous operas ever written and today are loved in opera houses across the world.