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Vol: 152 | 15 May 2016 |
Meet with the “Napoleon of the impresarios”,
discover the vampire craze in operas,
and who’s the angelic prima donna in Mozart’s operas? |
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Peter Warlock
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In League
with the Devil
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Winnaretta Singer
Princess de Polignac
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Great Women Artists
Who Shaped Music
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Music, Art and Nature
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A Different depiction
of Nature
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Bergen International Festival
Established in 1953, the event was inspired by Edvard Grieg’s “Music Festival in Bergen” back in 1898. Today, the Bergen International Festival is the largest of its kind in the Nordic countries presenting a series of programmes in diverse art forms: Orchestral music, chamber music, opera, recitals, theatre, dance theatre, dance, children’s programme, festival exhibition and outdoor events/street performances... |
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Date: May 25 to June 8, 2016
Country: Norway
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Movers and Shakers of Music World
Domenico Barbaja |
The Life of the Vampire |
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Given the enormous financial burden of running an opera house, impresarios frequently went bankrupt, earning themselves a reputation as adventurers and chancers. Much of that changed with one man, who became not only extremely rich himself... |
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The composer Heinrich Marschner made the most of the vampire craze that swept Europe in the early 19th century with his opera Der Vampyr. The craze had started with a short story abandoned by Byron that was picked up by his physician, John Poliori... |
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Oh! Susanna
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
and Nancy Storace |
Stravinsky and the
Power of Oedipus Rex |
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The Austrian Emperor Joseph II was crazy about Italian opera buffa! And since he had the required resources and lots of taxpayer money, he simply went ahead and founded a new opera company in 1783. Since the Emperor took his entertainment very seriously, he was looking to recruit some top talent... |
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Oedipus Rex, subtitled an “Opera-Oratorio after Sophocles,” has been recognized as one of the high points of Stravinsky’s work, yet is rarely performed today. Sophocles’ drama tells of an entire family’s attempts to avoid their fate, while at the same time they cannot avoid it... |
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| My music |
Video |
Forgotten records |
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Weiner:
Csongor es Tunde, Op. 10
(2nd version, 1959)
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Stravinsky:
Oedipus Rex
Ozawa, Norman, Langridge (1992) |
Bach:
Concerto for Violin
and Orchestra
in G minor BWV 1056 R
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