For Bea
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Earlier this month we lost our gorgeous, irrepressible, acrobatic,
fastidious, eccentric, and deeply sweet cat Bea. She was fourteen, and
wildly vital almo...
Metamorphoses 2023
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Theatre Smith-Gilmour’s production of Metamorphoses 2023 opened last night
at Crow’s Theatre. It’s an 80 minute show, written and directed by Michele
Smit...
RPO/Petrenko - Beethoven and Mahler, 22 March 2023
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Royal Festival Hall
*Beethoven:* *Fidelio*, op.72: Overture
*Mahler:* *Des Knaben Wunderhorn*: ‘Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen’, ‘Der
Schildwache Nachtl...
Portadoras del fuego sagrado
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Durante la explosión mediática del CD y DVD de las décadas 80-90, abundaron
documentales sobre grandes de la música y adyacencias. Hoy cosa del pasado,
ver...
Tolkien Sessions at Leeds IMC 2023
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Eglerio! This year The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, School of
Critical Studies, University of Glasgow will be sponsoring six Tolkien
sessions a...
Changing colours
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Roses don't last long in Sydney's hot humid weather so I've been picking
them when they flower and painting small canvases of roses in vases. I've
discov...
Senta, Tristan and Walther “On the Couch”
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Psychoanalysts Steven H. Goldberg, M.D., and Lee Rather, Ph.D., have edited
an enjoyable collection of essays under the title “Opera on the Couch:
Music, E...
KÖNIGSKINDER: A TRIUMPH IN TRISTESSE
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The Dutch National Opera has no Wagner programmed this season but fans of
the wizard of Bayreuth can somewhat indulge themselves with Königskinder by
Engel...
Comps for the MM in Mastersinging
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Deutsche Oper Berlin 29.6.22 In the era of
the hyperobject you almost have to salute a production that retains the
visual si...
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Blog beëindigd. Leidmotief verkaste naar Substack, "the home of great
writing". Klik hierBlog discontinued. Leidmotief migrated to Substack, "the
home of g...
Lies
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The truth shall set us free.
Okay, fine, except what happens when the truth is obscured in lies? That
now seems to be the situation in the United States....
Book Review: Blood and Iron by Katja Hoyer
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A Review of Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
1871–1918 by Katja Hoyer
Amazon Kindle eBook edition (the edition used for the revi...
Sleeping Forever Beneath the Dry Earth (Part 5)
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Shostakovich talking with Rudolf Barshai in the early 1970s
And here is the final part of my book. I am really pleased with a lot of
what's in this part ...
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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...
