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A.C. Douglas
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22 May 1813
"With the last chords of the Twilight of the Gods, I had a feeling of liberation from captivity. It may be that The Nibelungs' Ring... Continue reading
Posted 2 days ago at Sounds & Fury
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Poor Richard
[NOTE: This entry has been updated (1) as of 3:43 PM Eastern on 19 May. See below.] This coming Wednesday, 22 May, is THE bicentennial... Continue reading
Posted 5 days ago at Sounds & Fury
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Michael Mayer's Staging Of the Met's New Rigoletto
We just finished watching our DVRed copy of PBS's Friday night telecast of the Met's HD film of its new production of Michael Mayer's Regietheater... Continue reading
Posted 6 days ago at Sounds & Fury
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Ghost Tracks Of Wagner In New York
Alex Ross, classical music critic of The New Yorker and author of the best-selling book The Rest is Noise , has written a fascinating piece... Continue reading
Posted May 16, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Of Rotten Eggs And Eurotrash
Howls of indignation could be heard emanating from the champions of and cheerleaders for Eurotrash (i.e., Konzept) Regietheater at the decision by Deutsche Oper am... Continue reading
Posted May 9, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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An Inexplicable Error Of Judgment
[NOTE: This entry has been updated (1) as of 10:19 AM Eastern on 4 May. See below.] We yesterday viewed for the first time in... Continue reading
Posted May 4, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Words missing in my last. The sentence that read: "Russia is her birthplace, the source of her operatic training and musical sensibilities." should have read: "Russia is her birthplace, the source of her operatic training, and the shaper of her musical sensibilities." ACD
Toggle Commented May 3, 2013 on Cleaning lady makes good at Intermezzo
I'm well aware of the fact. But she remains, and forever will remain, a Russian soprano that notwithstanding. Russia is her birthplace, the source of her operatic training and musical sensibilities. (BTW, Netrebko hates the German language; one of the reasons she's mostly steered clear of the German-Austrian rep. Our loss.) ACD ******** Intermezzo replies - By your logic, New York-born Boris Johnson has no business being Mayor of London. Send him packing! (not a bad idea now I think of it).
Toggle Commented May 3, 2013 on Cleaning lady makes good at Intermezzo
"...Austrian soprano...."? ACD
Toggle Commented May 3, 2013 on Cleaning lady makes good at Intermezzo
Opera For The Twitter Crowd: All You Need To Know
As we're now ensconced officially on Twitter (link is on our sidebar) as an adjunct to our activities here on S&F, we thought it only... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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One Helluva Composer That Wolfgang
[NOTE: This entry has been edited as of 2:04 AM Eastern on 13 Apr to add a footnote.] Viewed the Met's 2012 La Clemenza Di... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Bravo!, Alan (And Sesame Street)
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Posted Apr 9, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Mad Men: Season 6
Mad Men is back for its sixth season with a two-hour opener tonight. We haven't seen it yet (we're DVRing it so we can watch... Continue reading
Posted Apr 7, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Forcing American Audiences To Cease Their Nostalgia Trips
In this week's issue of The New Yorker, in a piece titled "Shock Tactics", New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross writes: [T]he injection of... Continue reading
Posted Apr 1, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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A Really Neat April Fools' Day Joke
Picture this: A packed-house recital hall and on its stage nothing but a 9 ft. concert grand with lid completely closed as is the piano's... Continue reading
Posted Apr 1, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Soul-Satisfying
Few things in music are as soul-satisfying as Renaissance choral polyphony sung supremely well, especially at Eastertime. (Our thanks to The Rest Is Noise for... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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The New York Post Does Bayreuth
According to New York Post opera critic James Jorden (aka "La Cieca" of Parterre Box), he's been credentialed to cover this summer's Bayreuther Festspiele for... Continue reading
Posted Mar 27, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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An Introduction To Opera
On a heavily populated online opera forum, a member asked: I am curious about people's first recordings of opera (I mean the first two or... Continue reading
Posted Mar 25, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Grin And Bear It
As it had no choice but to do, the Met is reviving its production of the Robert Lepage staging of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen... Continue reading
Posted Mar 23, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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The Met's François Girard Staging Of Parsifal
We watched the entire Met HD film of its production of the François Girard staging of Wagner's Parsifal the other night courtesy of a YouTube... Continue reading
Posted Mar 17, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Nothing For It (Administrative Note)
The arts conversation seems to have migrated from blogs to Twitter the reason for which eludes us. Nothing for it, however, so, as an adjunct... Continue reading
Posted Mar 16, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Netflix's New Drama Series, House Of Cards: Some Brief Remarks
We take a momentary break from our hiatus from blogging to note briefly Netflix's small revolution in the delivery of original TV-type series drama to... Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Gone Fishin' (Administrative Note)
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Posted Jan 28, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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Featured Past Post #115 (Administrative Note)
Some pertinent remarks on the special requirements of acting in opera are contained in a 2011 S&F entry cleverly titled "Acting In Opera" the link... Continue reading
Posted Jan 25, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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New Entry On Off-Message Rants & Screeds (Administrative Note)
The link to a just-posted new entry ("Hillary") on S&F's Off-Message Rants & Screeds blog is now up on our sidebar under the Most Recent... Continue reading
Posted Jan 23, 2013 at Sounds & Fury
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