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Album, C<span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">lassical</span></span></b></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WINNER: “<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bates</span></a>:
Philharmonia Fantastique – The Making Of The Orchestra”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Shawn Murphy, Charlie Post & Gary Rydstrom, engineers; Michael
Romanowski, mastering engineer (Edwin Outwater & <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Chicago Symphony Orchestra</span></a>)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Beethoven: Symphony No. 6;
Stucky: Silent Spring”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Mark Donahue, engineer; Mark Donahue, mastering engineer (Manfred Honeck
& Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Perspectives”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Jonathan Lackey, Bill Maylone & Dan Nichols, engineers; Joe Lambert,
mastering engineer (Third Coast Percussion)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Tuvayhun – Beatitudes For A
Wounded World”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Morten Lindberg, engineer; Morten Lindberg, mastering engineer (Anita
Brevik, Nidarosdomens Jentekor & Trondheimsolistene)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Williams: Violin Concerto No.
2 & Selected Film Themes”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Bernhard Güttler, Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Christoph
Stickel, mastering engineer (Anne-Sophie Mutter, John Williams &
Boston Symphony Orchestra)</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Producer of the Year, Classical<b></b></span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jonathan Allen</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Christoph Franke</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">James Ginsburg</span></a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elaine Martone</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WINNER: Judith Sherman</span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Orchestral Performance</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Adams, John Luther: Sila – The
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Doug Perkins, conductor (Musicians Of The University Of Michigan
Department Of Chamber Music & University Of Michigan Percussion
Ensemble)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7-9″</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gustavo Dudamel</span></a>,
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Philharmonic</span></a>)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Eastman: Stay On It”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Christopher Rountree, conductor (Wild Up)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l7 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“John Williams – The Berlin
Concert”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John Williams</span></a>,
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Price, Jessie Montgomery, Valerie Coleman”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Michael Repper, conductor (New York Youth Symphony)</span></li></ul>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Yannick Nézet-Séguin</span></a>,
conductor; Barry Banks, Nathan Berg, Joshua Hopkins, Erin Morley &
Jakub Józef Orliński; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WINNER: “Blanchard: Fire Shut
Up In My Bones”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Angel Blue, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black;">Will Liverman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Latonia Moore</span></a>
& Walter Russell III; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera
Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l6 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Davis: X – The Life And Times
Of Malcolm X”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Gil Rose, conductor; Ronnita Miller, Whitney Morrison, Victor Robertson
& Davóne Tines; Gil Rose, producer (Boston Modern Orchestra Project;
Odyssey Opera Chorus)</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Choral Performance</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Bach: St. John Passion”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John Eliot Gardiner</span></a>,
conductor (English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WINNER: “Born”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Donald Nally, conductor (Dominic German, Maren Montalbano, Rebecca Myers
& James Reese; The Crossing)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Verdi: Requiem – The Met
Remembers 9/11″</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Donald Palumbo, chorus master (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Michelle DeYoung</span></a>,
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Eric Owens</span></a>, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ailyn Pérez</span></a>
& <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Matthew
Polenzani</span></a>; The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan
Opera Chorus)</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Beethoven: Complete String
Quartets, Volume 2 – The Middle Quartets”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dover Quartet</span></a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Musical Remembrances”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Neave Trio</span></a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Perspectives”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Third Coast Percussion</span></a></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WINNER: “Shaw: Evergreen”<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Attacca Quartet</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo6; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What Is American”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
PUBLIQuartet</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> Classical
Instrumental Solo<br />
<br />
“Abels: Isolation Variation”<br />
Hilary Hahn<br />
“Bach: The Art Of Life”<br />
Daniil Trifonov<br />
“Beethoven: Diabelli Variations”<br />
Mitsuko Uchida<br />
WINNER: “Letters For The Future”<br />
Time For Three; Xian Zhang, conductor (The Philadelphia
Orchestra)<br />
“A Night In Upper Town – The Music Of Zoran Krajacic”<br />
Mak Grgić<br />
<br />
Classical Solo Vocal Album<br />
<br />
“Eden”<br />
Joyce DiDonato, soloist; Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor (Il
Pomo D’Oro)<br />
“How Do I Find You”<br />
Sasha Cooke, soloist; Kirill Kuzmin, pianist<br />
“Okpebholo: Lord, How Come Me Here?”<br />
Will Liverman, soloist; Paul Sánchez, pianist (J’Nai Bridges
& Caen Thomason-Redus)<br />
“Stranger – Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly”<br />
Nicholas Phan, soloist (Eric Jacobson; Brooklyn Rider &
The Knights; Reginald Mobley)<br />
WINNER: “Voice Of Nature – The Anthropocene”<br />
Renée Fleming, soloist; Yannick Nézet-Séguin, pianist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Best Classical Compendium</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WINNER: “An Adoption Story”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Starr Parodi & Kitt Wakeley; Jeff Fair, Starr Parodi & Kitt
Wakeley, producers</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Aspire”<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JP Jofre & Seunghee Lee;
Enrico Fagone, conductor; Jonathan Allen, producer</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A Concert For Ukraine”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; David Frost, producer</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo7; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The Lost Birds”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Voces8; Barnaby Smith & Christopher Tin, conductors; Sean Patrick
Flahaven & Christopher Tin, producers</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;">Contemporary Classical Composition</span></b></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Akiho: Ligneous Suite”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Andy Akiho, composer (Ian Rosenbaum & Dover Quartet)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Bermel: Intonations”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Derek Bermel, composer (Jack Quartet)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Gubaidulina: The Wrath Of God”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
Sofia Gubaidulina, composer (Andris Nelsons & Gewandhausorchester)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WINNER: “Puts: Contact”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kevin Puts</span></a>,
composer (Xian Zhang, Time for Three & The Philadelphia Orchestra)</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color: black; line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo8; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-themecolor: text1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Simon: Requiem For The
Enslaved”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Carlos Simon</span></a>,
composer (Carlos Simon, MK Zulu, Marco Pavé & Hub New Music)</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: text1;"> </span></p>
Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-49160520591630368872023-01-24T21:45:00.000-05:002023-01-24T21:45:16.993-05:00Santa Fe Opera 2023 Season<p> </p><p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWaue4CISb9B98EZoUHCKi7Xr2Yr3ZNE5afI9ZrFyNOBKjZ79vSl6kY9IPZKoODl3Ry5ow0PoQjxJkVDAX-GCTFz7rxvEEPVK4TJLt1eyRwPV2WLF3qsbQ1nDj9EAZfonPg3E/s960/226275916_369180624553182_2545404792706990042_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="378" data-original-width="960" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWaue4CISb9B98EZoUHCKi7Xr2Yr3ZNE5afI9ZrFyNOBKjZ79vSl6kY9IPZKoODl3Ry5ow0PoQjxJkVDAX-GCTFz7rxvEEPVK4TJLt1eyRwPV2WLF3qsbQ1nDj9EAZfonPg3E/w640-h252/226275916_369180624553182_2545404792706990042_n.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>The Met is drifting toward new operas, but Santa Fe is staying firmly in the traditional repertoire. <i><br /></i></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i>Tosca</i> by Puccini June 30 - Aug 26<br /></span></span></span></p><h5 class="c-col-bio__name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Angel Blue and Leah Hawkins -- Tosca, Joshua Guerrero and Freddie De Tommaso - Cavaradossi, Reginald Smith, Jr - Scarpia, </span>J<span style="font-weight: normal;">ohn Fiore conductor</span></span><br /></span></span></span></h5><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>
</span></span></span><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i>The Flying Dutchman</i> by Wagner July 7 - Aug 25<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><h5 class="c-col-bio__name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nicholas Brownlee -- Dutchman, Elza van den Heever -- Senta, Morris Robinson -- Daland, Thomas Guggeis - conductor<br /></span></span></span></h5><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i>Pelléas et Mélisande</i> by Debussy July 15 - Aug 18<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Huw Montague Rendall -- </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Pelléas</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span>, Samantha Hankey -- Mélisande, Harry Bicket - conductor</span></span><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i>Rusalka</i> by Dvorak July 22 - Aug 22<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Ailyn Perez -- Rusalka, Robert Watson -- The Prince, Raehann Bryce-Davis -- Jezibaba, Lidiya Yankovskaya - conductor<br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i>Orfeo</i> by Monteverdi July 29 - Aug 24<br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rolando Villazon -- Orfeo, Paula Murrihy -- Messaggera, <span style="font-size: small;"><span>Harry Bicket - conductor</span></span></span> </p><div class="o-layout__item u-1/2 u-1/3@mobile--wide u-1/4@tablet u-1/5@wide u-1/6@superwide">
</div>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-44425305802396159122022-06-12T19:30:00.002-04:002023-03-07T12:31:47.381-05:00Lyric Symphony by Zemlinsky<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjGqCr-rRy9UPzWfXrKYDMiA-QQNkJvZz7yhitfCUVeNEWbcPXWWwJcaylJWy66xElzglc226otayK35lYMoQwUZxblkR0oSU9BZFE0zFZclV1AgPxYIAUynn7EPleDRV_cenGCnM9fObLywNznHGLgb5VStuGBjwkna84SQuM5sA9bWWUQ/s510/287529671_445421230729927_340458308165408019_n%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="510" height="549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjGqCr-rRy9UPzWfXrKYDMiA-QQNkJvZz7yhitfCUVeNEWbcPXWWwJcaylJWy66xElzglc226otayK35lYMoQwUZxblkR0oSU9BZFE0zFZclV1AgPxYIAUynn7EPleDRV_cenGCnM9fObLywNznHGLgb5VStuGBjwkna84SQuM5sA9bWWUQ/w640-h549/287529671_445421230729927_340458308165408019_n%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div>
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</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"> Davidsen, Petrenko, Gerhaher<br /></span></p>
<p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">1. Ich bin friedlos, ich bin durstig nach fernen Dingen - </span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">baritone<br /></span></p><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">2. O Mutter, der junge Prinz - </span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"> soprano<br /></span></p><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">3. Du bist die Abendwolke - </span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"> baritone<br /></span></p><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">4. Sprich zu mir, Geliebter - </span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"> soprano<br /></span></p><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">5. Befrei mich von den Banden deiner Süße, Lieb - </span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"> baritone<br /></span></p><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">6. Vollende denn das letzte Lied - </span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">soprano<br /></span></p><p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">7. Friede, mein Herz - </span> baritone<br /></p><p>Alexander von Zemlinsky - Lyrische Symphonie, Op. 18 (1923), Lise Davidsen and Christian Gerhaher performed <span class="_aacl _aaco _aacu _aacx _aad7 _aade">with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko conducting. T</span>exts are taken from <i>The Gardener</i> by Rabindranath Tagore in a German translation by Hans Effenberger.
</p><p><span class="_aacl _aaco _aacu _aacx _aad7 _aade">I admit to being fascinated by this piece which I will call post romantic. It's intense. The purpose of the concert is to bring back memories of three Jewish composers driven out of Germany and Austria by the Nazis. The other two composers are </span><span class="sc-pdkfH bkJYfN"><span class="sc-pAwOa fDSlPa"><span class="sc-fzqARJ sc-pIUfD cepMXZ">Erwin Schulhoff and </span></span></span><span class="sc-pdkfH bkJYfN"><span class="sc-pAwOa fDSlPa"><span class="sc-fzqARJ sc-pIUfD cepMXZ">Leone Sinigaglia.</span></span></span></p><p><span class="_aacl _aaco _aacu _aacx _aad7 _aade">I am here for Lise Davidsen, of course. I am beginning to feel curious about Zemlinsky. His opera <i>Der Zwerg</i> was supposed to be presented in San Francisco, but was cancelled due to covid. Perhaps I should look into it. Both Davidsen and Gerhaher express the music well.</span></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-82931221091100142912022-06-11T22:11:00.004-04:002023-06-01T21:44:55.684-04:00Apology<p>I want to apologize for the current state of this blog. I have passed the 80 years mark and find that I am both physically and mentally old, perhaps too old for blogging.</p><p>Sources of opera have been drying up:</p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Opera companies have shut down due to covid. Most have restarted, but there are still fewer than before.</li><li>I am too old to travel. I have even cancelled my tickets to the San Francisco Opera because it is now to far for me to drive.</li><li>Fewer companies are streaming than before. This is now my primary source of opera and it's nothing like what it was before.</li></ol><p>That's enough for now. <br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-89032846563050050512022-05-21T19:51:00.008-04:002023-03-07T21:46:06.844-05:00Lucia in HD<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx49Ti6sNfKPRZWmm9W0DZdHugiPgwtUeAal8u1VBKqFAUc7JtDZOHUiL69-Q6dDzweelB3FcLrE007ozqJGHCWBI2LlINz0rho0WUd471dr_14ndV_HaaIdgJNSlCQ3mJAHlCcijWiYWmpYaNtvYNWFxYLmp8YQczl2IDabBOdTeXDUYWaA/s1600/lucia-1600c685-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1600" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx49Ti6sNfKPRZWmm9W0DZdHugiPgwtUeAal8u1VBKqFAUc7JtDZOHUiL69-Q6dDzweelB3FcLrE007ozqJGHCWBI2LlINz0rho0WUd471dr_14ndV_HaaIdgJNSlCQ3mJAHlCcijWiYWmpYaNtvYNWFxYLmp8YQczl2IDabBOdTeXDUYWaA/w640-h274/lucia-1600c685-2.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><br /><p></p><table class="wikitable"><tbody><tr><td>Conductor: Riccardo Frizza<br />Director: Simon Stone</td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td><br /></td></tr><tr>
<td><table class="wikitable"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td><td>Enrico Ashton, Lucia's brother: Artur Ruciński (baritone)<br />
Lucia Ashton: Nadine Sierra (coloratura soprano)<br />
Riamondo Bidebent, Lucia's tutor: Christian Van Horn (bass)<br />
Edgardo, Lucia's fiance: Javier Camarena (tenor)<br /> </td></tr></tbody></table></td>
<td><br /></td><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Host: Anthony Roth Costanzo <br /></p><p>The HD from the Met today was Donizetti's <i>Lucia di Lammermoor</i> in a new production by Simon Stone. It turns out I've already seen two productions by him: <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/06/die-tote-stadt-munich.html">Korngold's <i>Die Tote Stadt</i></a> from the Bayerische Staatsoper and <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/07/saariahos-innocence.html">Saariaho's <i>Innocence</i> </a>from Aix en Provence. He likes a lot of detail. Today there was rather an astounding amount of detail, which, surprisingly, seemed to match the libretto. He likes a small rotating set. This one represented a small American town with a pawn shop, a church, etc. There were two cars: an orange Pinto and a pick up truck. The prop master was interviewed and said there might be about 1000 props. The presence of cell phones, used rather frequently, places us in a narrow time period. Thus the confusion when a drive in film of Bob Hope appeared.</p><p>It worked for me. Lucia's brother was a drunk and a drug fiend whose budget is deeply in dept, thus explaining his need for his sister to marry Arturo instead of Edgardo, the man she loves.</p><p>The singing was magnificent. Nadine has a gorgeous voice, and Javier is one of the best lyric tenors around. I've seen Ruciński before only in the <i>La Boheme</i> in outer space. And Christian Van Horn is always wonderful. The mad scene is often orchestrated for flute, but we were treated to the wonderful glass harmonica. It seems the ideal sound to portray madness.<br /></p><p>The combination of beautiful singing, great acting, and lots of dramatic detail,made this a wonderful performance for me. And I need to report that the sound in the theater was much better today.<br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-72228018915381224922022-05-15T22:04:00.005-04:002023-03-07T12:32:04.351-05:00My Singers<p>This is interesting. </p><p><br />
</p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 346px;"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 5120; mso-width-source: userset; width: 105pt;" width="140"></col>
<col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 2852; mso-width-source: userset; width: 59pt;" width="78"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr height="40" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="40" style="height: 30pt; width: 105pt;" width="140">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 346px;"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 5120; mso-width-source: userset; width: 105pt;" width="140"></col>
<col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 2852; mso-width-source: userset; width: 59pt;" width="78"></col>
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<td class="xl64" height="40" style="height: 30pt; width: 105pt;" width="140">name<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium none; width: 48pt;" width="64">year born</td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium none; width: 48pt;" width="64">year I met</td>
<td class="xl65" style="border-left: medium none; width: 59pt;" width="78">their age when
met</td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl66" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt;">Cecilia
Bartoli</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1966</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1993</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">27</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt;">Anna Netrebko</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1971</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1995</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt;">Dmitri
Hvorostovsky</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1962</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1996</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">34</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt;">Jonas Kaufmann</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1969</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2007</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">38</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl66" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt;">Lise Davidsen</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">1987</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2017</td>
<td align="right" class="xl66" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;">30</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; width: 48pt;" width="64"><br /></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; width: 48pt;" width="64"><br /></td>
<td class="xl67" style="border-left: medium none; width: 59pt;" width="78"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl68" height="20" style="border-top: medium none; height: 15pt;"><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></td>
<td align="right" class="xl68" style="border-left: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></td>
</tr>
</tbody></table><p></p><p>These are my singers. It shows when they were born, when I noticed them and the age they were when this happened. </p><p>I first saw Cecilia Bartoli on TV. I have flown the most number of times to see Cecilia. My favorite performances are:</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i>La Cenerentola</i> in Zurich long ago <br /><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2005/07/figaro-video-review.html"><i>Le Nozze di Figaro</i> from the Met</a><br /><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2019/01/litaliana-in-algeri-from-salzburg.html"><i>L'Italiana in Algeri</i> from Salzburg </a>And many more.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p>Anna did <i>Ruslan and Luidmila</i> at the San Francisco Opera and has been going strong ever since. For me it is a terrible tragedy that the Met kicked her out. My favorite performances are:</p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2006/07/la-traviata.html"><i>La Traviata</i> from Salzburg</a>, the only time I liked this production.<br /><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2006/10/manon-does-hollywood.html"><i>Manon </i>from LA Opera</a>.<br /><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2015/10/il-trovatore-in-hd.html"><i>Il Trovatore</i> from the Met</a>.<br /></div><p>I saw Dmitri in San Francisco and on streams from the Met. He was still at the peak of his career when he died.</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2007/02/eugene-onegin-in-portland.html"><i>Eugene Onegin</i> from the Met</a> with Renee Fleming<br /><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2015/10/il-trovatore-in-hd.html"><i>Il Trovatore</i> from the Met</a> with Anna Netrebko</div><p></p><p>I first saw Jonas in a performance of <i>Fidelio</i> in Zurich on one of my trips to see Cecilia.</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2007/01/fidelio.html"><i>Fidelio </i>in Zurich</a><br /><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2009/10/lohengren.html"><i>Werther </i>in Paris</a><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2009/10/lohengren.html"><br /><i>Lohengrin</i> in Munich</a><br />Everything he sings is first class, so the list would need to be longer. Search label AandJ.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p>
Lise is the newest addition to my list, and she is only young when you compare her to Dmitri and Jonas.</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2020/07/fidelio.html"><i>Fidelio</i> from London</a><br /><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2020/09/ariadne-auf-naxos-from-vienna.html"><i>Ariadne auf Naxos</i> from Vienna</a><br /><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2019/07/tannhauser.html"><i>Tannhäuser </i>from Bayreuth</a></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/05/lise-in-walkuere-at-bso.html"><i>Die Walküre </i>Act I from Munich</a> was the one I got most excited over. <br /></div><p></p><br /><p></p><p></p></div>
Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-1355931194497713662022-04-03T14:09:00.000-04:002023-03-07T12:32:17.054-05:00Classical Grammy Nominees for 2022 Plus Winners<div><p><b>BEST ENGINEERED ALBUM, CLASSICAL</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Archetypes</i>, Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Beethoven: Cello Sonatas – Hope Amid Tears</i>, Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Beethoven: Symphony No. 9</i>, Manfred Honeck, Mendelssohn Choir Of Pittsburgh & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<b><i>Chanticleer Sings Christmas</i>, Chanticleer WINNER</b><br /></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Mahler: Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand,’ </i>Gustavo
Dudamel, Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Luke McEndarfer, Robert Istad, Grant
Gershon, Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Master Chorale,
National Children’s Chorus, Pacific Chorale & Los Angeles
Philharmonic</li></ul>
<p><b>PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL</b></p>
</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Blanton Alspaugh</li><li>
Steven Epstein</li><li>
David Frost</li><li>
Elaine Martone</li><li>
<b>Judith Sherman WINNER</b><br /></li></ul><div>
<p><b>BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Adams: My Father Knew Charles Ives; Harmonielehre, Nashville Symphony Orchestra</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
Muhly: Throughline, San Francisco Symphony</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<b>Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3, Philadelphia Orchestra, cond. Yannick Nézet-Séguin WINNER</b><br /></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra; Scriabin: The Poem Of Ecstasy, Seattle Symphony Orchestra</li></ul>
<p><b>BEST OPERA RECORDING ALBUM</b></p>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>"Bartók: Bluebeard’s Castle,” Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra</li><li>
<b>“Glass: Akhnaten,” The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus WINNER</b><br /></li><li>
“Janáček: Cunning Little Vixen,” London Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Chorus & LSO Discovery Voices</li><li>
“Little: Soldier Songs,” The Opera Philadelphia Orchestra</li><li>
“Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmélites,” The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus, cond. Yannick Nézet-Séguin</li></ul></div><div>
<p><b>BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE</b></p>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>It’s a Long Way</i>, Jonas Budris, Carrie Cheron, Fiona
Gillespie, Nathan Hodgson, Helen Karloski, Enrico Lagasca, Megan Roth,
Alissa Ruth Suver & Dana Whiteside; Skylark Vocal Ensemble</li><li>
<b><i>Mahler: Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand,’ </i>Leah
Crocetto, Mihoko Fujimura, Ryan McKinny, Erin Morley, Tamara Mumford,
Simon O’Neill, Morris Robinson & Tamara Wilson; Los Angeles
Philharmonic; Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, Los Angeles Master Chorale,
National Children’s Chorus & Pacific Chorale WINNER</b><br /></li><li>
<i>Rising w/ The Crossing</i>, International Contemporary Ensemble & Quicksilver; The Crossing</li><li>
<i>Schnittke: Choir Concerto; Three Sacred Hymns; Pärt: Seven Magnificat-antiphons</i>, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir</li><li>
<i>Sheehan: Liturgy Of Saint John Chrysostom</i>, Michael Hawes, Timothy Parsons & Jason Thoms; The Saint Tikhon Choir</li><li>
<i>The Singing Guitar</i>, Estelí Gomez; Austin Guitar Quartet, Douglas Harvey, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet & Texas Guitar Quartet; Conspirare</li></ul></div><div>
<p><b>BEST CHAMBER MUSIC/SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE</b></p>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Adams, John Luther: Lines Made By Walking</i>, Jack Quartet</li><li>
<i>Akiho: Seven Pillars</i>, Sandbox Percussion</li><li>
<i>Archetypes</i>, Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third Coast Percussion</li><li>
<b><i>Beethoven: Cello Sonatas – Hope Amid Tears</i>, Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax WINNER</b><br /></li><li>
<i>Bruits</i>, Imani Winds</li></ul></div><div>
<p><b>BEST CLASSICAL INSTRUMENT SOLO</b></p>
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b>“Alone Together,” Jennifer Koh WINNER</b><br /></li><li>
“An American Mosaic,” Simone Dinnerstein</li><li>
“Bach: Sonatas & Partitas,” Augustin Hadelich</li><li>
“Beethoven & Brahms: Violin Concertos,” The Knights</li><li>
“Mak Bach,” Mak Grgić</li><li>
“Of Power,” Curtis Stewart</li></ul></div><div>
<p><b>BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Confessions</i>, Laura Strickling; Joy Schreier</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Dreams Of A New Day – Songs By Black Composers</i>, Will Liverman; Paul Sánchez</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<b><i>Mythologies</i>, Sangeeta Kaur & Hila Plitmann (Virginie
D’avezac De Castera, Lili Haydn, Wouter Kellerman, Nadeem Majdalany, Eru
Matsumoto & Emilio D. Miler) WINNER</b><br /></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Schubert: Winterreise</i>, Joyce Didonato; Yannick Nézet-Séguin</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Unexpected Shadows</i>, Jamie Barton; Jake Heggie (Matt Haimovitz)</li></ul>
<p><b>BEST CLASSICAL COMPENDIUM ALBUM</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>American Originals – A New World, A New Canon</i>, Agave & Reginald L. Mobley; Geoffrey Silver, producer</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Berg: Violin Concerto; Seven Early Songs & Three Pieces for Orchestra</i>, Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor; Jack Vad, producer</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Cerrone: The Arching Path</i>, Timo Andres & Ian Rosenbaum; Mike Tierney, producer</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Plays</i>, Chick Corea; Chick Corea & Birnie Kirsh, producers</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<b><i>Women Warriors – The Voices Of Change</i>, Amy Andersson, Conductor; Amy Andersson, Mark Mattson & Lolita Ritmanis, producers WINNER</b><br /></li></ul>
<p><b>BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION</b></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i>Akiho: Seven Pillars</i>, Andy Akiho, composer (Sandbox Percussion)</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Andriessen: The Only One</i>, Louis Andriessen, composer (Esa-pekka Salonen, Nora Fischer & Los Angeles Philharmonic)</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Assad, Clarice & Sérgio, Connors, Dillon, Martin & Skidmore: Archetypes</i>,
Clarice Assad, Sérgio Assad, Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin
& David Skidmore, composers (Sérgio Assad, Clarice Assad & Third
Coast Percussion)</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<i>Batiste: Movement 11′</i>, Jon Batiste, composer (Jon Batiste)</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<b><i>Shaw: Narrow Sea</i>, Caroline Shaw, composer (Dawn Upshaw, Gilbert Kalish & Sō Percussion) WINNER</b></li></ul><p> </p>
</div>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-19661884311993290902022-03-29T21:51:00.006-04:002023-03-07T12:32:35.065-05:00Don Carlos in HD<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP5I9jwrO8SPxTUweUxUCJnbWOarzC_DqW87g5sMyLnvkBI7L28nz8ZCDt-NVua4m5eRrpH1QIhNCE2oAVCKwK_Xjer9R6DcPDP6ymKvCyRH-8G6S_m_nj-VhuIFNlATZynzsQwExv4imVWk1B0cr7iXgO4RFjDgP1sIwXLbwD_OJzOVgZ7Q/s1050/review-don-carlos-finally-brings-french-verdi-to-the-met-P3CDASHI.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="1050" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP5I9jwrO8SPxTUweUxUCJnbWOarzC_DqW87g5sMyLnvkBI7L28nz8ZCDt-NVua4m5eRrpH1QIhNCE2oAVCKwK_Xjer9R6DcPDP6ymKvCyRH-8G6S_m_nj-VhuIFNlATZynzsQwExv4imVWk1B0cr7iXgO4RFjDgP1sIwXLbwD_OJzOVgZ7Q/w640-h336/review-don-carlos-finally-brings-french-verdi-to-the-met-P3CDASHI.webp" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="artist-individual ng-scope" data-ng-repeat="castMember in castMembersController.castMemberRows">
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<p class="artist-individual-role ng-binding ng-scope" data-ng-if="::castMember.role">Eboli -<span class="ng-binding">Jamie Barton</span>
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<p class="artist-individual-role ng-binding ng-scope" data-ng-if="::castMember.role">Rodrigue -<span class="ng-binding">Etienne Dupuis</span>
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<p class="artist-individual-role ng-binding ng-scope" data-ng-if="::castMember.role">Grand Inquisitor -<span class="ng-binding"> John Relyea</span>
</p></div></div><p></p><p>Production by David McVicar <br /></p><p>Saturday we viewed the live HD performance of the French version of Verdi's <i>Don Carlos</i>. This opera seems to be attempting to imitate reality, so perhaps a little reality is required. This is a calendar of historical events related to the life of Philip II of Spain. </p>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 33pt;" width="44"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 284px;"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 1755; mso-width-source: userset; width: 36pt;" width="48"></col>
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<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 36pt;" width="48">1527</td>
<td style="width: 177pt;" width="236">Philip born</td>
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<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1543</td>
<td>Philip marries Maria Manuela of Portugal</td>
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<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1545</td>
<td>Carlos born, Maria Manuela mother</td>
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<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1545</td>
<td>Maria dies</td>
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<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1545</td>
<td>Elisabeth of Valois born</td>
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<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1554</td>
<td>Philip marries Mary I of England [bloody Mary] becoming her co-regent<br /></td>
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<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1556</td>
<td>Philip becomes King of Spain</td>
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<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1558</td>
<td>Mary dies, Philip returns to Spain<br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1559</td>
<td>Philip marries Elisabeth of Valois</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1568</td>
<td>Elisabeth dies</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1568</td>
<td>Carlos dies</td>
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</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 36pt;" width="48">1570</td>
<td style="width: 177pt;" width="236">Philip marries Anna of Austria</td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1580</td>
<td>Anna dies</td>
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<td class="xl63" height="20" style="height: 15pt;">1598</td>
<td>Philip dies</td>
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</tbody></table><p></p><p>From this we see that Carlos and Elisabeth were about the same age and died at about the same time. Philip was already King of Spain for three years before he married Elisabeth of Valois. So it is unlikely that his coronation took place after he married Elisabeth. </p><p>The plot begins when Carlos, who believes he will marry Elisabeth, wishes to meet his future wife and tracks her to the Forest of Fontainebleau, France. They meet and fall in love. By the end of the scene a political agreement has been reached offstage, and Carlos and Elisabeth find that she is to marry Carlos' father Philip. This is the context for the rest of the opera, so the story doesn't make much sense if this scene is omitted.</p><p>I thought this was a brilliantly and beautifully executed performance. The story felt right, perhaps for the first time. This is the most I have liked <span class="ng-binding">Sonya Yoncheva whose performance shaped the drama. I never felt a desire to go home early because it was all so fascinating.<br /></span></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-40643428781727758912022-02-23T13:30:00.005-05:002023-03-07T12:32:47.172-05:00Met season 22-23<p>I prefer a chronological sequence: <br /></p><p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 567px;"><colgroup><col width="349"></col><col width="129"></col><col width="89"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr height="20">
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<td style="width: 97pt;" width="129"><br /></td>
<td class="xl66" style="width: 67pt;" width="89">HD date</td>
</tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 567px;"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 12763; mso-width-source: userset; width: 262pt;" width="349"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 4717; mso-width-source: userset; width: 97pt;" width="129"></col>
<col style="mso-width-alt: 3254; mso-width-source: userset; width: 67pt;" width="89"></col>
</colgroup><tbody><tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Medea
New Production Luigi Cherubini</td>
<td class="xl66" style="width: 97pt;" width="129">Sep 27 - Oct 28</td>
<td class="xl69" style="width: 67pt;" width="89">10/22/2022</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Idomeneo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</td>
<td class="xl66">Sep 28 - Oct 20</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Lady
Macbeth of Mtsensk Dmitri Shostakovich</td>
<td class="xl66">Sep 29 - Oct 21</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Tosca
Giacomo Puccini</td>
<td class="xl66">Oct 4 - Apr 15</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Peter
Grimes Benjamin Britten</td>
<td class="xl66">Oct 16 - Nov 12</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">La
Traviata Giuseppe Verdi</td>
<td class="xl66">Oct 25 - Mar 18</td>
<td class="xl69">11/5/2022</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Don
Carlo Giuseppe Verdi</td>
<td class="xl66">Nov 3 - Dec 3</td>
<td class="xl69">11/19/2022</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi</td>
<td class="xl66">Nov 10 - Dec 29</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="40" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="40" style="height: 30pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">The
Hours New Production Kevin Puts / LIBRETTO BY Greg Pierce</td>
<td class="xl66">Nov 22 - Dec 15</td>
<td class="xl69">12/10/2022</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Aida
Giuseppe Verdi</td>
<td class="xl66">Dec 2 - May 18</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="40" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="40" style="height: 30pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">The
Magic Flute—Holiday Presentation Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</td>
<td class="xl66">Dec 16 - Jan 6</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Fedora
New Production Umberto Giordano</td>
<td class="xl66">Dec 31 - Jan 28</td>
<td class="xl69">1/14/2023</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">L’Elisir
d’Amore Gaetano Donizetti</td>
<td class="xl66">Jan 10 - Apr 29</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Dialogues
des Carmélites Francis Poulenc</td>
<td class="xl66">Jan 15 - Jan 28</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Lohengrin
New Production Richard Wagner</td>
<td class="xl66">Feb 26 - Apr 1</td>
<td class="xl69">3/18/2023</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Norma
Vincenzo Bellini</td>
<td class="xl66">Feb 28 - Mar 25</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Falstaff
Giuseppe Verdi</td>
<td class="xl66">Mar 12 - Apr 1</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Der
Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss</td>
<td class="xl66">Mar 27 - Apr 20</td>
<td class="xl69">4/15/2023</td>
</tr>
<tr height="40" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="40" style="height: 30pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Champion
New Production TERENCE BLANCHARD / LIBRETTO BY Michael Cristofer</td>
<td class="xl66">Apr 10 - May 13</td>
<td class="xl69">4/29/2023</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">La
Bohème Giacomo Puccini</td>
<td class="xl66">Apr 21 - Jun 9</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr height="40" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="40" style="height: 30pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Don
Giovanni New Production Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</td>
<td class="xl66">May 5 - Jun 2</td>
<td class="xl69">5/20/2023</td>
</tr>
<tr height="40" style="height: 30pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="40" style="height: 30pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Die
Zauberflöte New Production Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</td>
<td class="xl66">May 19 - Jun 10</td>
<td class="xl69">6/3/2023</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15pt;">
<td class="xl67" height="20" style="height: 15pt; width: 262pt;" width="349">Der
Fliegende Holländer Richard Wagner</td>
<td class="xl66">May 30 - Jun 10</td>
<td class="xl68"><br /></td>
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</tbody></table><p>Perhaps I'll post some details later. <br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-27507984497165113882022-01-11T21:52:00.002-05:002023-03-07T12:33:03.109-05:00Maria Ewing (March 27, 1950 - January 9, 2022)<p> I saw her very famous Salome, and can only wish I had seen this Carmen.<br /></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cF5QONMTaA8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-65618750095003422112022-01-08T18:26:00.000-05:002023-03-07T12:33:17.011-05:00Lise Davidsen Grieg Songs<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-9tQahuoAkV8E8jwr7oO6U8RrxWZ7JPjp-X_br3Z-GqXIkVHXZTJAluWUMkdFg7Xah68c7ZKxTdQ1-SIKJVPopwQJg1D1cEdYYNpCQWh4PKgGlt41FHtU4Eh-77BOY1zlSAP6gbIjZg0SKA09YHCfEMB0dG1sHCbTs9Uxuin6Y0attkhLBw=s500" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg-9tQahuoAkV8E8jwr7oO6U8RrxWZ7JPjp-X_br3Z-GqXIkVHXZTJAluWUMkdFg7Xah68c7ZKxTdQ1-SIKJVPopwQJg1D1cEdYYNpCQWh4PKgGlt41FHtU4Eh-77BOY1zlSAP6gbIjZg0SKA09YHCfEMB0dG1sHCbTs9Uxuin6Y0attkhLBw=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><p><br />Lise Davidsen's Grieg album with fellow Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes on piano came out yesterday. I am listening on the Amazon stream. There are 28 tracks, and so far only two of them are familiar: <span><span>Op. 25 - 2. En Svane (</span></span>The Swan) and Op. 5 - 3. Jeg elsker Dig! (I love you). This whole album is very beautiful. This is Lise's sweet voice. For Wagner and Verdi she shows much heavier singing.<br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">#ad</span><br /></p><p></p><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=kinde05-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon&region=US&placement=B09LR54SC5&asins=B09LR54SC5&linkId=ac10f20bbd41b57fbbcc9cd404e54977&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true" style="height: 240px; width: 120px;"></iframe>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-2506682074734557972021-12-24T21:55:00.002-05:002023-03-07T12:33:33.470-05:002021 Opera Year in Review KK Awards<div><p>I'm not sure 2021 was any better than 2020. I am counting only performances that took place this year or films I had never seen before this year. This was another year aggravated by both COVID and my advancing age. I still saw some very nice stuff. <br /></p><p>Here is the all too short list of operas new to me this year. <br /></p><ul style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><li>
<a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/01/three-decembers.html">Heggie's <i>Three Decembers</i></a>, Jan 1, from San Jose *</li><li><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/01/linda-di-chamounix-from-firenze.html">Donizetti's <i>Linda di Chamounix</i></a>, Jan 26, from Florence * </li><li><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/07/saariahos-innocence.html">Saariaho's <i>Innocence</i></a>, July 23, from Aix en Provence * <br /></li><li><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/10/fire-shut-up-in-my-bones-in-hd.html">Blanchard's <i>Fire Shut Up in My Bones,</i></a> October 23, from the Met *</li><li><a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/12/eurydice-in-hd.html">Aucoin's <i>Eurydice,</i></a> December 18, from the Met *</li></ul></div>
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<div><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>BEST NEW OPERA AWARD It's hard to choose one. I enjoyed most Heggie's <i>Three Decembers </i>from the San Jose Opera, but this was probably because the lead role was played by the always amazing Susan Graham. The two modern operas from the Metropolitan Opera did not grab me. I require musical interest, and not just theater. Donizetti is famous mostly for his comic operas <i>L’Elisir d’Amore </i>and<i> Don Pasquale, </i>plus<i> Lucia, </i>of course<i>. </i><i>Linda di Chamounix </i>is very beautiful, but perhaps the plot is too dated. It is opera seria with a happy ending, a genre we don't follow that much. The award seems to go to <i>Three Decembers</i>. <br /></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;">
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</ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>BEST OF MOZART, BEETHOVEN, AND WEBER AWARD My only Mozart was <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/11/cosi-fan-tutte-in-san-francisco.html"><i>Cosi fan Tutte</i></a>, November 28, from San Francisco in a lovely modern production, part 2 of their Da Ponte trilogy. I saw two new versions of Beethoven's <i>Fidelio</i> this year: <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/01/fidelio-from-birmingham.html"><i>Fidelio</i></a>, Jan 29, from Birmingham England and some years old, and <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/10/fidelio-in-san-francisco.html"><i>Fidelio</i></a>, October 15, from San Francisco. <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/02/der-freischutz.html">Weber <i>Der Freischütz</i></a>, Feb 16, from Munich. All four of these operas might be regarded as regie. The Birmingham Fidelio features a row of washing machines. <i>Der Freischütz</i>, which we see all too seldom, is in a sky scraper. Modernizing it loses some of the mystery. <i>Cosi</i> is in a Country Club which people join to play golf and tennis. I dearly love Fidelio, but I think the most successful of this group has to be the San Francisco <i>Cosi fan Tutte</i>, and I award to it.</li></ul> <br /></div><div>
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<ul><li>BEST OF VERDI, MUSSORGSKY AND R. STRAUSS AWARD The pickings in the late Romantics are pretty slim. Lise Davidsen makes her only staged opera appearance in a rather odd <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/02/another-ariadne.html">Strauss <i>Ariadne auf Naxos</i></a>, Feb 4, from Aix en Province. I say odd because in this regie production Ariadne doesn't await a god to rescue her; instead she awaits a baby because she is pregnant. Lise frowned almost constantly. The singing was wonderful. Other performances in the running are <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/02/aida-from-paris.html">Verdi <i>Aida</i>,</a> February 18, from Paris and<a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/10/boris-godunov-in-hd.html"> Mussorgsky's <i>Boris Godunov</i></a>, October 9, from the Met in a shortened version. The <i>Aida</i> with Jonas Kaufmann and Sondra Radvanovsky has puppets. None of these are anything I would want to see again, but I award to <i>Aida</i>.</li></ul><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia5tZnIFh0B9PpVKj_Bj_GpKdZkEJSwHtjp9W13aACWUAGqRh8J5oYLUBJSpomStOdQdH7cKRmucYUAEn6DXUi217NJHzc_lbBfyYNqhiHbpD9I50HokONQU62TVpvoPQbG6lK8OZxcdiqHX8XqKZTNFGIvy_SS2_6GyMzcPBouK0WoEeqQA=s750" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="750" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia5tZnIFh0B9PpVKj_Bj_GpKdZkEJSwHtjp9W13aACWUAGqRh8J5oYLUBJSpomStOdQdH7cKRmucYUAEn6DXUi217NJHzc_lbBfyYNqhiHbpD9I50HokONQU62TVpvoPQbG6lK8OZxcdiqHX8XqKZTNFGIvy_SS2_6GyMzcPBouK0WoEeqQA=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>BEST VERISMO AWARD The Verismo operas for this year were <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/06/die-tote-stadt-munich.html">Korngold <i>Die Tote Stadt,</i></a> June 20, from the Bayerische Staatsoper, <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/08/katya-kabanova-at-west-edge.html">Janáček's <i>Káťa Kabanová</i>, </a> August 2, from West Edge, and <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/08/pagliacci-from-chicago.html">Leoncavallo's <i>Pagliacci</i></a>, August 20, from Chicago. West Edge was in a poor venue and can't really compete with the other companies. Verismo operas are modern enough to allow for regie productions with no complaining, at least from me. The Korngold starred Jonas Kaufmann who is hard to beat in anything. <i>Pagliacci</i> starred our boy Quinn Kelsen who gave us a marvelous prologue. The pictured performance was a television show, The Honeymooners, which I am old enough to have seen. If you hadn't seen it, you would not get the back story. I award to <i>Pagliacci,</i> for fun. <br /></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;">
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</div></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>SINGER OF THE YEAR This has to go to Jonas Kaufmann, who managed to find a way onto the stage and our screens in spite of everything. I especially loved him in the reopening of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Act I of <i>Die Walküre</i> with Lise Davidsen, who was glorious. This is the most I have become emotionally involved with this scene. His fully staged operas were <i>Aida</i> with Sondra Radvanovsky, <i>Die Tote Stadt</i> with Marlis Peterson, <i>Tosca</i> with Anna Netrebko in Salzburg and with Sondra Radvanovsky in Spain, and the triumph that puts him above all others: <i>Tristan und Isolde</i> with Anja Harteros. I loved every bit in spite of the fact that it was very much regie. With such great artists it doesn't seem to matter.</li></ul></div><div><p> It was a pretty strange year. Let's hope for better things in the future.<br /></p></div>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-19094927316768473592021-12-18T19:22:00.009-05:002023-04-09T10:58:07.298-04:00Eurydice in HD<div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAJJ9kdC3T4gitRWKgwEtrz-LGv3y169qGTNxnxgXj_nfi7PxbSuUZV_FTWk3exDeA1YEDct3lzWWCYuLdjn6vEzTEAk3nhh_j1PI5nWgtmfzHkijrnot5OZ9mqYsnXJdCmQcC4n6ZubBSbjeGGpsrBXuWJmjgHAfe5_U9V4WoLqSq3LbnCA=s600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjAJJ9kdC3T4gitRWKgwEtrz-LGv3y169qGTNxnxgXj_nfi7PxbSuUZV_FTWk3exDeA1YEDct3lzWWCYuLdjn6vEzTEAk3nhh_j1PI5nWgtmfzHkijrnot5OZ9mqYsnXJdCmQcC4n6ZubBSbjeGGpsrBXuWJmjgHAfe5_U9V4WoLqSq3LbnCA=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>
Eurydice................Erin Morley (soprano) <br />Orpheus.................Joshua Hopkins (baritone) <br />Orpheus’s Double....Jakub Józef Orlinski, countertenor <br />Father.....................Nathan Berg (baritone) <br />Hades.....................Barry Banks (tenor) <br />Little Stone............Stacey Tappan (soprano)<br />Big Stone...............Ronnita Miller (mezzo) <br />Loud Stone............Chad Shelton (tenor) </div><div><br /></div>Conductor............Yannick Nézet-Séguin <br />Director................Mary Zimmerman <p>The opera <i>Eurydice</i> by Matthew Aucoin on a libretto by Sarah Ruhl premiered in Los Angeles in 2020. It's based on a play by Sarah Ruhl and is in English. This is the Orpheus myth from the woman's point of view. It's a preferred topic for operas because it's about the power of music even over the gods. Orpheus can lure the gods into releasing Eurydice from hell. </p><p>We are 20 minutes in and they have violated an important rule: there should be an aria, preferably for the soprano, in the first 10 minutes. So far just talky stuff. They tried all recitative operas at the beginning of opera, but it didn't work out. We go to hell and see Eurydice's father who still remembers life before death and how to read and write. He writes to Eurydice and sings about it. This is the closest we've come to an aria so far. </p><p>Eurydice comes out in her bridal dress, and father watches her while he sinks back into the earth. Orpheus and Eurydice sing their vows, kiss and dance. Hades arrives and he has a conversation with Eurydice over the water cooler. He brings her the letter from her father. For me the lyrical bits don't go on nearly long enough. Eurydice goes off with Hades and Orpheus comes looking for her. </p><p>I'm sorry. This just isn't happening for me. </p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-78556488363423543362021-12-12T18:40:00.000-05:002023-03-07T12:34:14.692-05:00West Side Story 2021<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4XXjWnMNruy25wExYcsJVnTJn0ZGvFgnT5qUHw8tqN3AdgJChebpX6kjAw6QL4zwlTMz-oThE178bxpwVtuB3NlARJyd2wFgolLKveUEoY6OS6LUf0yTbylbrWrHnXRCtmESHoPQNWuwlejJcWZYJpegIduiEdkDecGYVmmqM2EHA0vH9Lw=s620" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4XXjWnMNruy25wExYcsJVnTJn0ZGvFgnT5qUHw8tqN3AdgJChebpX6kjAw6QL4zwlTMz-oThE178bxpwVtuB3NlARJyd2wFgolLKveUEoY6OS6LUf0yTbylbrWrHnXRCtmESHoPQNWuwlejJcWZYJpegIduiEdkDecGYVmmqM2EHA0vH9Lw=w640-h426" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 607px;"><colgroup><col style="mso-width-alt: 6619; mso-width-source: userset; width: 136pt;" width="181"></col>
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</tbody></table><p>These are comparative cast lists for the two movie versions of Bernstein's <i>West Side Story</i>. The lyrics are by Sondheim. All the main roles were dubbed in the 1961 movie while none were in the new one. Voice: means the name of the person who is actually singing. I was fascinated to see Rita Moreno sang here but was dubbed in the earlier version. Curious. After all, Rita has a Grammy.<br /></p><p>If you were paying attention, at the very beginning they are talking about urban renewal in that part of New York City and show a photo of Lincoln Center which opened in 1962. The film showed street signs from that neighborhood. So there was a slum there before it was torn down. I liked all the old cars seen parked in the street. This is my era, apparently.<br /></p><p>I enjoyed this remake and found it very emotional. The dancing was top quality and very professional, but the same cannot be said for the singing. Perhaps I would have enjoyed it more if the volume was turned up a bit. The singing wasn't bad, just insignificant. Live in the theater it would be louder because the cast would be chosen partly for their singing and then amplified. <br /></p><p>There was a lot of untranslated Spanish with quite a lot of "Speak English" remarks. I only know tiny bits of Spanish. The story was darker and more violent.</p><p>In my review of West Side Story at the Sacramento Music Circus I said, "The way the production looks is how the story is told. One group runs
quickly off the stage and is replaced by another. 'Who are these
people?' is a question that should be instantly answered." It was at the Music Circus, but it was not here. It was no easy trick to tell the two groups apart. I found this a particular problem.</p><p>Tony loses his cool for a moment and changes everything. This is the heart of the story. One should see it again. Don't miss this. The young man who plays Tony is particularly beautiful.<br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-47532640598671539392021-12-06T14:02:00.003-05:002023-03-07T12:34:28.102-05:00Salzburg Whitsun 2022<div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnx9t4vsGSiREtZb-sA4N9FbBgnZ35BgY5ViMalZZP4lDcTZFr3E8Jz3GBOhv4VrZf44ioo6TUxbLTikdZS7kZ-qbBT5vW0ZolHp_RmjObZ-V-VgJejhJ2bDQxf8V_zM-90OmpOAz7m6y0OlFA_49kKo7JGew5kIQQ4TUmDjfUEV5PL9XSKg=s400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnx9t4vsGSiREtZb-sA4N9FbBgnZ35BgY5ViMalZZP4lDcTZFr3E8Jz3GBOhv4VrZf44ioo6TUxbLTikdZS7kZ-qbBT5vW0ZolHp_RmjObZ-V-VgJejhJ2bDQxf8V_zM-90OmpOAz7m6y0OlFA_49kKo7JGew5kIQQ4TUmDjfUEV5PL9XSKg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></p></div><p>Cecilia Bartoli has announced her Whitsun Festival for 2022. It's called Siviglia and features a variety of references to Seville. There is even a flamenco night. I am hoping for a stream, because it would be wonderful to see Cecilia in <i>Barber of Seville</i> once more. It looks like a lot of fun.<br /></p><p></p><p>
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</tbody></table><ul class="en-space-t-lg" style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><li><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Gianluca Capuano</span> <span>Conductor</span> <span class="en-icon en-text-gold-light" data-en-icon="chevron-right"></span></li><li><span><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Maria Agresta</span> <span>Soprano</span></span></li><li><span><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Rebeca Olvera</span> <span>Soprano</span></span></li><li><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Cecilia Bartoli</span> <span>Mezzo-soprano</span> <span class="en-icon en-text-gold-light" data-en-icon="chevron-right"></span></li><li><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Piotr Beczala</span> <span>Tenor</span> <span class="en-icon en-text-gold-light" data-en-icon="chevron-right"></span></li><li><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Plácido Domingo</span> <span>Tenor</span> <span class="en-icon en-text-gold-light" data-en-icon="chevron-right"></span></li><li><span><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">John Osborn</span> <span>Tenor</span></span></li><li><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Rolando Villazón</span> <span>Tenor</span> <span class="en-icon en-text-gold-light" data-en-icon="chevron-right"></span></li><li><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Ildar Abdrazakov</span> <span>Bass</span> <span class="en-icon en-text-gold-light" data-en-icon="chevron-right"></span></li><li><span><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">María Pagés</span> <span>Dance</span></span></li><li><span class="en-format-semibold en-nowrap">Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco</span> <span></span> <a class="en-nowrap en-hover en-hover--fast-sine en-hover--color" href="https://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/en/a/les-musiciens-du-prince"><span class="en-icon en-text-gold-light" data-en-icon="chevron-right"></span></a></li></ul>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-79813277848619263682021-12-04T18:05:00.004-05:002023-03-07T12:34:45.671-05:00A Baroque Christmas in Sacramento<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-p36YqDY1o5CVgPsmK1ATr2PC2RuVztEwZybPj06IjSuWcRHb1xlIvLNjmplff4QxPIIPDpwFGnpvFS142FJL18su5jTbmx8ReesnHZ3aJ_HvJ5UxR90KanpbIdSgXEk8L7x/s1280/Margaret-Batcher-New.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="853" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-p36YqDY1o5CVgPsmK1ATr2PC2RuVztEwZybPj06IjSuWcRHb1xlIvLNjmplff4QxPIIPDpwFGnpvFS142FJL18su5jTbmx8ReesnHZ3aJ_HvJ5UxR90KanpbIdSgXEk8L7x/w266-h400/Margaret-Batcher-New.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Last night at SAFE Credit Union Performing
Arts Center in Sacramento we attended a lovely small orchestra concert with Margaret Batjer, conductor and violin. I am calling these types of concerts twofers. That means you get a soloist and a conductor for the price of one. It's becoming very popular. In fact the previous <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2021/11/safe-credit-union-performing-arts.html">Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera concert</a> was also a twofer. Margaret's experience is as a concert mistress, and that's where she spent most of her time in the concert. Only in the Bach violin concerto did she stand in front of the orchestra. The rest of the time she sat in concert master's place on a raised platform where everyone could easily see her.<br />
</p><p></p><p><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 571.629px; transform: scaleX(0.826135);">BACH </span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 546px; top: 571.629px; transform: scaleX(0.936045);">Violin Concerto in A minor</span><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto"> </span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Allegro </span><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Andante </span><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Allegro assai
</span></div><p><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 591.629px; transform: scaleX(0.82789);">HAYDN Symphony No. 8 in G major "Le soir"</span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Allegro molt </span><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Andant </span><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Minuetto </span><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">La tempesta: Presto </span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 591.629px; transform: scaleX(0.82789);">Since it was in fact Haydn who invented the four movement symphony format, I reminded my friends that the other guys were not familiar with this form. Corelli was even earlier than Bach. <br /></span></p><p><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 591.629px; transform: scaleX(0.82789);"> CORELLI </span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 566.817px; top: 591.629px; transform: scaleX(0.928229);">Concerto Grosso in G minor. "Christmas Concerto"</span><br role="presentation" /></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.826135);"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">I. Vivace – Grave </span></span><br /><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.826135);"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">II. Allegro </span></span><br /><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.826135);"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">III. Adagio - Allegro – Adagio </span></span><br /><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.826135);"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">IV. Vivace </span></span><br /><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.826135);"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">V. Allegro </span> </span></div><div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.826135);">A concerto grosso involves a small ensemble, this time a string quartet, that alternates with the full orchestra. <br /></span></p><p></p><p><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 496.267px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.826135);">BACH </span><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 546px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.920747);">Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G major</span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">I. Allegro</span><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">II. Andante</span><br /><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">III. Presto</span></div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 546px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.920747);">The Brandenburg Concertos are also concerti grossi. The small ensemble in this particular case is a violin and two flutes. The two flutists were not named, but I am going to assume they were Matthew Krejci and Elizabeth Coronati.<br /></span></p><p><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 546px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.920747);">Our complaints about the previous concert seemed not to apply here. We were quite happy with the acoustics. Our guest violinist seemed to play significantly louder than the other string players. We loved both the chosen repertoire and the manner in which it was played.</span></p><p><span dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="font-size: 16.6667px; left: 546px; top: 611.629px; transform: scaleX(0.920747);"><br /></span></p><p></p></div>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-43683426382643675822021-12-01T20:33:00.004-05:002023-03-07T12:38:55.093-05:00Mariusz Kwiecien<p> This is about a year old, but apparently I have confused him with Ludovic Tézier who is still singing.<br /></p><p>2 October 2020</p><h1>Polish Baritone Mariusz Kwiecień Announces Retirement from Singing</h1>
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went on to join the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist
Development Program before making his debut with the company as Kuligin
in a 1999 performance of<span style="font-style: italic;"> Kát'a Kabanová</span>, has announced his retirement from singing, effective immediately, due to health issues. </p>
<p>Kwiecień announced to the Polish media that he had sustained a
slipped spinal disc in 2017 during a Metropolitan Opera performance of <span style="font-style: italic;">Don Giovanni </span>and subsequently underwent reparative surgery in New York, though the issue was exacerbated following a performance of <span style="font-style: italic;">Don Carlo</span>
at the Royal Opera House. The baritone's last performance at the
Metropolitan Opera came in November 2018, when he sang Zurga in the
first act of a performance of <span style="font-style: italic;">Les Pêcheurs de Perles</span> before
being replaced in Act II by Alexander Birch Elliott. Over the course of
his career, Kwiecień sang in more than 200 performances at the Met,
including new productions of <em>Don Pasquale</em> (2006), <em>Lucia di Lammermoor</em> (opening night of the 2007-08 season), <em>Carmen</em> (2009), <em>L'Elisir d'Amore</em> (opening night, 2012-13 season), <em>Eugene Onegin</em> (opening night of the 2013-14 season) and <em>Les Pêcheurs de Perles </em>(2015). Kwiecien also opened Lyric Opera of Chicago's 2014-15 season in the title role of the Robert Falls's <em>Don Giovanni </em>staging<em>. </em>Other
companies at which Kwiecień frequently performed included Covent
Garden, Paris Opéra, the Vienna State Opera and the Bayerische
Staatsoper. With an essentially lyric instrument, Kwiecień made
specialties of roles that included Giovanni, Szymanowski's King Roger,
Eugene Onegin, <em>Figaro</em>'s Almaviva, <em>Don Pasquale</em>'s Malatesta, Riccardo in <em>I Puritani</em> and Posa in Don Carlo.</p>
<p>Kwiecień has reportedly accepted the post as artistic director of <a href="https://www.opera.wroclaw.pl/1/" title="Wrocław Opera">Wrocław Opera</a>, and will begin his tenure there with the company's 2020-21 season. </p>
<p>“There are other problems appearing now, and my movements onstage
would be quite limited in such a situation. I don’t want that,” Kwiecień
told the Polish press. “I have a lot to say about opera these days. I
have sufficient background and experience from the greatest opera houses
in the world. I have a huge number of wonderful friends, singers,
directors and conductors, whom I will be delighted to invite to
Wrocław." <img alt="spacer" src="https://www.operanews.com/uploadedImages/sample_folder/MOG-ON-spacer.jpg" title="spacer" /> <br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-66389795307359419292021-11-28T13:09:00.002-05:002023-08-06T16:48:09.489-04:00Cosi fan tutte in San Francisco<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3R8MVkILPqu22fdND09-4a5ZpcOEi_1nGH-oXhZKZOczF7uro7jfinslLV9sNRvCOD0X4k2JvHwLmf_sx2Wd99SaMdoqCOrHMojd1xJ0SzixP4cTM2VP3VxKgYPSDv8cXEyK/s1024/MERe67f634e54ea0b3b503243158c062_cosi1122-1024x683.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO3R8MVkILPqu22fdND09-4a5ZpcOEi_1nGH-oXhZKZOczF7uro7jfinslLV9sNRvCOD0X4k2JvHwLmf_sx2Wd99SaMdoqCOrHMojd1xJ0SzixP4cTM2VP3VxKgYPSDv8cXEyK/w640-h426/MERe67f634e54ea0b3b503243158c062_cosi1122-1024x683.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p>Conductor: Henrik Nánási <br />
Director: Michael Cavanagh </p><p>
Ferrando: Ben Bliss* <br />
Guglielmo: John Brancy <br />
Don Alfonso: Ferruccio Furlanetto <br />
Fiordiligi: Nicole Cabell <br />
Dorabella: Irene Roberts <br />
Despina: Nicole Heaston </p><p>The San Francisco Opera is currently showing Mozart's <i>Cosi fan Tutte</i>. Starting this season if you do not want to go into a crowded opera house, you can for a fee watch the opera at home on live stream. I would like to suggest that it should be possible to make this available to play later for the same fee. This would allow friends in Europe to watch it. It's the middle of the night there.</p><p>This production began in 2019 with <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2019/10/le-nozze-di-figaro-from-san-francisco.html">Figaro</a> as part of a Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy and will continue to its conclusion later this season in Don Giovanni. All three operas are set in the same basic house structure. In this opera the house is now a country club with sports, dining, and other facilities. I felt that the concept worked very well. In the picture above the guys are in the men's locker room. I liked the look of it and felt that it served very well to clarify the story. The singers were expected to be rather more athletic than is generally a good idea. </p><p>My only problem with it was with the music. The music sounded very much like a performance of a Mozart symphony--intense and dramatic. It wasn't exactly bad, but didn't make me feel like I was seeing a comedy. My overall take is positive. This opera is often hated, and I overcame my tendency in this direction. It was good to see Ferruccio Furlanetto.</p><p><br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-14422526203556700752021-11-27T18:59:00.003-05:002023-03-07T12:35:09.313-05:00Stephen Sondheim 1930-2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjze1WwYPlhjJ_6xD7Z4AV8uon3GctqYkPpuP-0iWy4rEI10oUEgF_XZJYQ4avI4FCrRiTTtIkq-sUjkC2FP538MlurIFRlDgDkKOZywZfQ4T2Az7c6VqQgoQBQGLExZj8kCWuR/s900/hypatia-h-235c700b6f0367bb920f49a31f166743-h-cbd38b983d5964cd3c3538c4bb28a64e-1637969368.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="900" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjze1WwYPlhjJ_6xD7Z4AV8uon3GctqYkPpuP-0iWy4rEI10oUEgF_XZJYQ4avI4FCrRiTTtIkq-sUjkC2FP538MlurIFRlDgDkKOZywZfQ4T2Az7c6VqQgoQBQGLExZj8kCWuR/w640-h362/hypatia-h-235c700b6f0367bb920f49a31f166743-h-cbd38b983d5964cd3c3538c4bb28a64e-1637969368.jpg" width="640" /></a></i></div>
<p>Stephen Sondheim has died. I was not a connoisseur. He was responsible for the lyrics to Bernstein's <i>West Side Story</i>, for me the greatest of all American musicals. A new movie version of this is coming out on December 10 which I must see.</p>
<p></p><p><i>West Side Story </i>[lyrics only]<i><br /></i></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
I loved the original movie of this with Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno. It was done at the Sacramento Music Circus in 2015 where I saw it live. I seem to have complained about the production.</li></ul><p></p><p></p><p><i>Sweeney Todd </i>Since I began blogging I have seen three different versions of this show.<br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In 2008 came the incredible movie starring Johnny Depp as the demon barber, Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett and Sacha Baron Cohen. I seem to have enjoyed it rather more than expected.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In 2014 the New York Philharmonic put on a semi-staged version with an amazing cast: Bryn Terfel as Todd, Emma Thompson as Mrs. Lovett,
Erin Mackey as Johanna and Audra
McDonald as The Beggar Woman. They made this work and made a fantastic group.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In 2015 the San Francisco Opera presented it as an opera which I saw live. It didn't fill the seats. The cast: Sweeney Todd: Brian Mulligan, Mrs. Lovett: Stephanie Blythe, Johanna: Heidi Stober and Beggar Woman: Elizabeth Futral. Stephanie is great in anything she does. I feel like I've done this, but nothing erases the Mrs Lovett of Angela Lansbury.<br /></li></ul><p>
<i>Sunday in the Park with George</i> I tried to see this in London, but couldn't get a ticket.<br />
</p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>So instead I saw it live on Broadway in 2008. It set me to thinking about art.<br /></li></ul><p><i><i>
<i>Into the Woods</i>
</i></i>
It's a mash up of fairy tale stories.<i><i><br /></i></i></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>In 2013 I saw this live presented by the Sacramento Light Opera theater. I enjoyed it.<br /></li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Then in 2015 came the movie with Meryl Streep. I called it an excellent film adaptation.</li></ul><p>It is strange to realize that there are no hit tunes from any of these where the music is by Sondheim. I haven't seen <i>A Little Night Music</i>.</p><p><br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-67706092025839920752021-11-22T22:10:00.001-05:002023-03-07T12:39:26.391-05:00SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center is Back<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jwSbHGdGgK80NMsO7SAxE8BHygEXIST_kKzu7FdflSmI1K2j2BrIg-vSNrO2rPDoqfO8YYAiiXxxw4uhReypU8MX_GtEe33SDPGfRvr1-SLqZXqerNHW6orPFLibuStRVn9G/s275/SAFE_Credit+Union.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_jwSbHGdGgK80NMsO7SAxE8BHygEXIST_kKzu7FdflSmI1K2j2BrIg-vSNrO2rPDoqfO8YYAiiXxxw4uhReypU8MX_GtEe33SDPGfRvr1-SLqZXqerNHW6orPFLibuStRVn9G/w640-h426/SAFE_Credit+Union.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The Sacramento Philharmonic and Opera gave their first performance of this season in the recently refurbished SAFE Credit Union Performing Arts Center. The program consisted of:</p><p>Beethoven "The Consecration of the House" Overture, Op. 124</p><p>Mozart Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453.<br /></p><p>Sibelius Symphony No 2 in D minor, Op 43.</p><p>Jeffrey Kahane both conducted and played the piano in the Mozart. This is something going on now. Instead of hiring both a conductor and a pianist, one hires someone who can do both at the same time, thus getting two for the price of one. This is, of course, what would have happened in Mozart's day. The concert was good but not very exciting.<br /></p><p>The picture above is the only one I could find that shows the new configuration of the seats in the reconstructed center. Previously the seats extended all the way across with aisles only at the ends. Now we have a more conventional configuration. There is an orchestra pit, but it was covered for our performance. </p><p>They told us the sound was amplified. It had a kind of flat sound which diminished the expected and desired dynamic range. Classical music is not normally amplified, and if you are amplifying it, it is considered a sign that you have failed in any kind acoustic design. People came down from the balcony and said they could hear nothing up there. We'll see.</p><p><br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-73996124256904434072021-11-19T17:57:00.004-05:002023-03-07T12:35:20.862-05:00Barbara Hannigan's Lulu<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxjFbOU6m9UzRPYKVWFiwCuEo9_w40ISLzFck3GMDZqq1zOwYOBLBRuTz4GYI5_ikaqEnuipOWV9DmtuaHroKwE23Q0zeGfPuvdRzonteuNYPDRA1s0CieTasAOnjoZxGGqns/s580/1-point.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="580" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsxjFbOU6m9UzRPYKVWFiwCuEo9_w40ISLzFck3GMDZqq1zOwYOBLBRuTz4GYI5_ikaqEnuipOWV9DmtuaHroKwE23Q0zeGfPuvdRzonteuNYPDRA1s0CieTasAOnjoZxGGqns/w640-h362/1-point.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><p>
</p><p>Barbara Hannigan returned to Brussels to repeat her famous <i>Lulu</i> performance. She does a lot of en point dancing. I reviewed it <a href="http://blog.onopera.com/2015/03/who-is-lulu.html">the first time around</a> and found it complete fascinating. I believe this performance made her career.<br /></p><p></p>
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<h5 class="c-col-bio__name" style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Isabel Leonard, Mezzo-soprano, Carmen; Bryan Hymel, Tenor, Don José (July); Michael Fabiano, Tenor, Don José (August); Michael Sumuel, Bass-baritone, Escamillo; Sylvia D'Eramo, Soprano, Micaëla; Santa Fe Opera Music Director Harry Bicket conducts.</span><br /></span></h5></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The Barber of Seville</i> by Rossini July 2 - August 26 </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Emily Fons, Mezzo-soprano, Rosina; Jack Swanson, Tenor, Count Almaviva; Joshua Hopkins, Baritone, Figaro; Kevin Burdette, Bass, Dr. Bartolo; Ryan Speedo Green, Bass-baritone, Don Basilio (August); Iván López-Reynoso conducts.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Falstaff</i> by Verdi July 16 - August 25 </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Quinn Kelsey, Baritone, Falstaff; Alexandra LoBianco, Soprano, Alice Ford; Roland Wood, Baritone, Ford; Elena Villalón, Soprano, Nannetta; Eric Ferring, Tenor, Fenton; Ann McMahon Quintero, Mezzo-Soprano, Dame Quickly; Paul Daniel conducts. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Tristan und Isolde</i> by Wagner July 23 - August 22</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Simon O'Neill, Tenor, Tristan; Tamara Wilson, Soprano, Isolde; Jamie Barton, Mezzo-soprano, Brangäne; Nicholas Brownlee, Bass-baritone, Kurwenal; Eric Owens, Bass-baritone, King Marke; David Leigh, Bass, King Marke (August 11); James Gaffigan conducts.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
<i>M. Butterfly</i> by Huang Ruo July 30 - August 24 </span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kangmin Justin Kim, Countertenor, Song Liling; Mark Stone, Baritone, René Gallimard; Hongni Wu, Mezzo-soprano, Comrade Chin | Shu Fung; Kevin Burdette, Bass, Manuel Toulon | Judge; Joshua Dennis, Tenor, Marc; Carolyn Kuan conducts.</span></p><br /><div class="o-layout__item u-1/2 u-1/3@mobile--wide u-1/4@tablet u-1/5@wide u-1/6@superwide"><div class="c-col c-col-bio"><a class="c-col-bio__link" data-modal-open="bio--618dd7eb39a79" id="bio--618dd7eb39a79__trigger-A" role="button" tabindex="0"><div class="c-col-bio__details">
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James Robinson and Camille A. Brown<br />Conductor:
......Yannick Nézet-Séguin </div><div><br /></div>Destiny/Loneliness/Greta: Angel Blue
<br />Billie, Charles' mother:
.....Latonia Moore <br />Charles:
...........................Will Liverman <br />Char'es-Baby:
.................Walter Russell III <p></p><p><i>Fire Shut Up in My Bones, </i>2019<i>, </i> by Terence Blanchard on a libretto by Kasi Lemmons was shown in HD from the Metropolitan Opera today. I'm sorry. This didn't happen for me. The singers were excellent, especially Angel Blue whom I very much admire, but I didn't enjoy the music. That's the make or break for me.</p><p>I have decided to add more comments. I tend to shy away from cruelty and crime within families. I don't watch Law and Order SVU because it's all about the personal. I never go to Madama Butterfly because it is about cruelty in intimacy. Political and financial crimes don't bother me at all, but people abusing the innocent is just something I would rather not see. The sexual abuse of children is the worst category.</p><p><br /></p>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-37052711741263659302021-10-18T14:35:00.007-04:002023-03-07T12:40:17.796-05:00Edita Gruberová (23 December 1946 – 18 October 2021)<p> The great coloratura soprano Edita Gruberová has died. I believe in this performance she was 61.<br /></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Rcg2GZ3Jt8" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe>Dr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.com0