Music Lounge (26)
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Goethe’s encyclopedic amount of writing alone would have made him a famous
writer. I can only wonder what he would have accomplished if he could have
used ...
Zemlinsky, Die Seejungfrau
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Zemlinsky and Schoenberg, Prague, 1917
Image: Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna
‘I have always thought and still believe that he was a great composer.
Maybe...
The Passion of Simone
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I’m rather suffering from “stream fatigue” right now but once in a while
something really worth watching shows up. I’d put Royal Swedish Opera’s
recent pe...
Exercise is oh so boring
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We are told repeatedly that exercise is good for us but the problem with
exercise is that it is so boring. Keeping up an exercise routine is, or has
been...
Abrasadoras noches transfiguradas
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Decidirse por un disco tentado por la atracción que ejerce su portada me
transporta a mi adolescencia; de hecho, un glorioso Edvard Munch es el que
hoy me ...
John Adams recenseert Alex Ross' "Wagnerism"
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VAN GEORGE ELIOT TOT NEO-NAZI SKINHEADS : DE CHAOTISCHE CULTUS VAN RICHARD
WAGNERDoor John Adams Voor Friedrich Nietzsche was hij "een
vulkaanuitbarsting ...
David Hockney’s “Wagner Drive”
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In the (excellent) issue of The New Yorker Magazine dated January 18, 2021,
music critic Alex Ross reports on an experiential encounter with Wagner
that wa...
New Year"s Reflections on Wagner in My Lifetime
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As a land-locked American growing up in the heart of the North American
Continent, my earliest exposures to Wagner came form the radio. Programs
like Th...
Happy New Year 2021
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What a strange year 2020 was. I remember encountering the words "the past
is a foreign country" somewhere in the writings of historian Sir Richard J
E...
Who gives a Schmidt?
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Who cares if it's the right guy? It's all Schmidt anyway
Classical music gossip blogger Norman Lebrecht has been laying into
Austrian Composer Franz Schmi...
A Descent Into The Nibelheim Of The Mind
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The WAGNER & HEAVY METAL WINTER WEBLOG on music, books and the light at the
end of tunnel. From ' HEAVY' (Dan Franklin) to a heavy book 'WAGNERISM'
(Alex R...
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 ...
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...
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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, ...
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...
