Shostakovich Songs and Romances
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I’ve listened to a lot of music for voice and piano and a lot of music by
Shostakovich but it was only on listening to this new album by Margarita
Gritskov...
Aunque Marina se vista de seda
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La impredecible/previsible Marina Abramovic soñaba con un teatro repleto
por dos mil espectadores para el estreno de su multimedia
“opera-proyect”(sic) Las...
Music lounge (8)
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We’re crossing the alps this week for an Italian item in the music lounge,
which is the aria In quelle trine morbide from Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.
This is ...
Roger Scruton’s Posthumous Volume on Parsifal
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The late philosopher Roger Scruton wrote two valuable studies of Wagner’s
mature works: Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner’s Tristan
and Is...
Wake Up Trump Voters
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How could anyone consider voting for Donald J. Trump? I shake my head in
disbelief. His supporters seem to be blind and deaf to the truth about the
man. ...
The Albatross book for kids
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Hard copies of my book arrived today and they are much brighter than I
imagined. It is so exciting to see them in the flesh.
Yes, I agree with my London ...
BBC Proms 2020, or, A Proms Miscelleny for Week 3
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Welcome to the second instalment of this rather mad combination of
Previously at the Proms/What the critics said...
*Monday 3rd August - Lunchtime Chamber ...
Leeds IMC 2021 - Tolkien Sessions - CFP
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Eglerio! I am very excited and honoured to be organising the Tolkien
Sessions for the Leeds IMC
2021 Congress
The overall theme of the conference w...
It’s a pandemic, you can cut the recit
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It is I, your blogger, shut inside a house, like everyone. I watched the
Met’s At-Home Gala this afternoon and have some thoughts. Many of the
performances...
Wagner at the movies
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Toying around with image and sound. Combining the music of Richard Wagner
with film footage. There is few music as rich in imagination as the music
of Ric...
Best Shows of the 2010s: My List for the Decade
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Since this blog, Operatoonity.com, was conceived in February of 2010 (no,
it did not spring from the leg of Zeus–rather, from mine own cob), I have
been ...
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Ligeti, Atmosphères
Wagner, Prelude to Lohengrin Act 1
Berg, Violin Concerto
Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F major
Vienna Philharmonic
Christoph von Dohnányi, ...
Beijing's Triumph of the Will
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As I was watching video footage of developments during the Hong Kong
protest movement, I saw Beijing had symbolically mobilised the People's
Liberation Ar...
El desafío de Werther en Lima
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*La magnífica ópera de Massenet, obra cumbre del romanticismo francés,
llega en una extraordinaria producción de la Ópera de Colombia, para abrir
la Tempo...
Twerp it.
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Review – Salome (English National Opera, Friday 28 September 2018) Salome –
Allison Cook Jokanaan – David Soar Herod – Michael Colvin Herodias – Susan
Bick...
Royal Opera House announces Ring Cycles for 2018!
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Very excited by this announcement. Must start saving now…. ADVANCE
ANNOUNCEMENT Four full cycles performed September–November 2018 The 2018/19
Season open...
continuing as the flying surgeon
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As some of you may have noticed this blog has been inactive the last couple
of years. When I started this blog I worked in Denmark, but in 2011, after
I be...
The Most Terrifying Aria In All Of Opera
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The most terrifying aria in all of opera, or why Mozart stands alone as a
composer of dramma per musica. (Our thanks to The Music...
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*JULES BASTIN, BASSE CHANTANTE*
BASTIN was born in Waterloo in 1933. He was a Belgian operatic bass* who*
made his debut in 1960 at *La Monnaie*, singing ...
Carmen Aldrich
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Carmen at Chorégie d’Orange was TV live broadcast less than two weeks ago.
Contrary to the Puccini operas or the dreaded Verismo repertoire, Carmen is
alwa...
All-Wagner Concert on Friday, May 21
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Please join us for "Exquisite Love Duets and Solos by Richard Wagner," on
Friday, May 21, 2010, at Pickman Hall, Longy School of Music, Cambridge,
Massachu...
