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Lovro von Matacic was one of the great conductors who preserved the authentic late-Romantic tradition into the late-Romantic age.
He was a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, then studied at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. There he studied piano, org...
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Because opera libretti are quite outdated, intendants of opera houses are trying to modernize their stage plays. They reinvent symbolism and implement this new "insights" into their opera productions often in a grotesk way. This is especially true in...
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My friends, considering my heritage, frequently ask me about my suggestions regarding “Boris Godunov” and I decided to compile a little and highly opinioned (no surprised here!) “surviving guide” about this opera.
It is well-known and well-told stor...
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The MET is launching a new initiative with movie theaters across the world. This season, six of the Met's live broadcasts will be aired via satellite in selected movie theaters. The first big screen broadcast will be this Saturday - an English versio...
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The Chicago Lyric Opera http://www.lyricopera.org/ the first time since their glorious 70s begun today to broadcast their summer program via the WFMT–FM on Sunday 8PM.
http://www.wfmt.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMT
The broadcas...
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Well, the last season with grow of HD the quality of FM went very rapidly down. I wonder what change will be this year. Regardless the worsening quality of sound the program for 2008–09 season looks very exciting.
http://www.operainfo.org/?all=1
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Porgy and Bess!The popular aria Summertime ("...and the livin' is easy...") is most often taken as a straight statement, but the fact was, the living was very, very difficult. The song is ironic! But sung out of context, you'd never know.clark...
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If you missed the webcast of the opening night of Tristan on WFMT, perhaps you can catch it on your local station sometime in the future. Fortune smiled and blessed me with two 7th row seats. I leave the commentary to John von Rhein:
http://ww...
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The 2009-10 Metropolitan Opera season has officially been announced.
Tosca - new production by Luc Bondy with Karita Mattila, Marcelo Àlvarez/Jonas Kaufmann, Juha Uusitalo/Bryn Terfel, James Levine (c).Contes d´Hoffmann - new production by Bartlett ...
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A few days ago somebody mentioned to me that Roger Waters, the former Pink Floyd man come up with an opera about French revolution. A brief research confirmed the rumors and it turned out that it was quite awhile back:
http://en.wikipedi...
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http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=4093111...
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WGBH presents its 10th annual Opera Bash, a celebration of opera on television and radio.
Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 1-4, on radio
Each day at 2pm on WGBH 89.7 – Opera from the Boston Early Music Festival
The crown jewe...
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After a disappointing performance of Mozart Requiem last night by BSO this morning I feel that I need something light but good. The good old Operetta would do it…
Look whose is conducting the Die Fledermaus overture and HOW!!!!...
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I was listening today the Bolshoy 1948 production on LYS twice. What the beauty. As the tribute to this performance I am posting articles about the singers who did the “Boris Godunov” with Golovanov in 1948. The Articles are courtesy to writing staff...
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I have a room in my house that I have no use and I kind of considering converting it to The Opera Room. Generally it might be consider video rooms but I have no interest to watch movies in there, which is regularly associated with video – I have a l...
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I was amazed how good image quality, surround sound and some booze can combine to make for some very nice "at home opera"! I have no idea how much my brother spent on this, except it was plenty! Sound quality, per se, is far from the best, but some...
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The San Francisco Opera begins to run in War Memorial Opera House their new production of “Boris Godunov”. It is original Mussorgsky’s version and it might be interesting.
http://sfopera.com/o/268.asp
Does anybody know if the recording might become...
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A week or so ago I spoke with a friend of my - he is a perfectly rational and sane person. I send his some music and was asking what was he as thinking about it. He admitted that among the music I sent him he admitted that did not get opera. I was pu...
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It is sometimes disgusting to see operas played in American theaters. It is known and it is unfortunate that the American public consciousness brewed on the mix of puritanical hippocratic absurdity mixed with the condemnations of Jewdaic-Christian mo...
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A film director Alexander Sokurov, the Andrei Tarkovsky’s pupil, will direct the Bolshoi's new production of "Boris Godunov. In April 27". I hope it will be proporly filmed and made available.
By Raymond StultsPublished: April 20, 2007
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As I told you that side effect of my Video Room project turned out that I changed my mindset from hating that room and considering it as a worthless in the house to the sadden admiration of the room. No I do not watch videos in there but I just turn...
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I understand that with my desire to have 2-chanals instead of 34.6 channels for my video room I am bit off the bitten path but it is what it is. I am comfortable with what it is and as time goes by I more and more form my objective and my interest in...
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Puccini il trittico live in lyon 1st balcony center vs. Shelter 901 through three-way horn-loaded speakers in myExperience room!Looking back through romy's earlier posts in effort to reconcile live experience last night with what I have at home!I wan...
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Amy turned out to be a fireplace kitten and she spends a lot of time in our opera room, cooking her feet on fire and filing the room with marvelous purring. We were planning to do major Opera Room remodeling this winter but the resent Hurricane Sandy...
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WGBH presents its 10th annual Opera Bash, a celebration of opera on television and radio.
Tuesday-Friday, Sept. 1-4, on radio
Each day at 2pm on WGBH 89.7 – Opera from the Boston Early Music Festival
The crown jewe...
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Ewa Podles in Boston this week in Rossini’s opera “Tancredi.’’ To celebrate Ms. Podles arrival in Boston I bought last week a couple of her live CDs with Russian and Chopin repertoire. Love her voice, even some of Garrick Ohlsson’s accompaniments we...
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I have a room in my house that I have no use and I kind of considering converting it to The Opera Room. Generally it might be consider video rooms but I have no interest to watch movies in there, which is regularly associated with video – I have a l...
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I was amazed how good image quality, surround sound and some booze can combine to make for some very nice "at home opera"! I have no idea how much my brother spent on this, except it was plenty! Sound quality, per se, is far from the best, but some...
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I shall have to come see it. I even liked it before!...
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The Opera Room is turning out to be a really bitch and I am very surprised how this room get transferred from a worthless place in the house to something that we really enjoy. As the new furniture and new sitting arrangement is got developed during ...
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