Nightafternight playlist
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New and recent releases of interest. — Speak, Be Silent: works of Chaya
Czernowin, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Mirela Ivičević, Liza Lim, and Rebecca
Saunders; R...
The Next Wave workshop
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Last night, at the Ernest Balmer Studio, we got to see somewhat more
developed versions of the works presented earlier in the week in the RBA in
staged for...
Middlemarch
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Over the past week I have been completely entranced by George Eliot's
*Middlemarch*. It is so well written I have been reading very slowly,
resisting the t...
ABOUT EXTREME MUSIC
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Why bother about the tempi in a Wagner opera or the orchestration of a
Schumann symphony if one can at the same time listen, not literally of
course, to on...
Santa Callas
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Ninguna otra cantante lírica del siglo XX despertó tanta polémica en
vida. En carrera e incluso después. En la década del cincuenta y buena
parte del ses...
La Pasión según San Mateo
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La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, junto al Coro Nacional, Coro Nacional de
Niños y solistas, dirigido...
Remembering Rosa Luxemburg 100 years on
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Would Rosa Luxemburg have changed the world? We'll never know, because she
was murdered in the act of doing so, 100 years ago, by men who would go on
to ...
The Gig Economy Bride
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Greetings, meine Damen und Herren, I appear among you today to convey my
Smetana hot takes, which were simply too spicy for social media to handle.
Trust t...
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...
Thielemann's Bruckner 1 and 3 on Blu-ray
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Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 1
Staatskapelle Dresden
Christian Thielemann
C Major 744704 (Blu-ray)
Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 3
Staatskapelle Dr...
Reactions in Time
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Time has a way of under mining our fondest memories and dearest feelings.
The idea is implicit in Chaos Theory, so I guess that I should not be
surprised...
World-Building and The Mythic Origins of Ariadne
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Greetings all - Dr. Wotan has just recently returned from The International
Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo Michigan and is now busy preparing for
giving ...
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...