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Tag Archives: Handel
10 Questions for Rufus Müller
Rufus Müller was acclaimed by The New York Times following a performance in Carnegie Hall as “…easily the best tenor I have heard in a live Messiah.” The British/German tenor is celebrated as the Evangelist in Bach’s Passions, and his … Continue reading
Posted in Ten Questions
Tagged Beethoven, Handel, Ivars Taurins, Mark Morris Dance Group, Rufus Müller, Sophie Daneman, Tafelmusik
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Body Language
I was having a crabby episode this Friday morning. I was running late. It’s ridiculous to admit. I didn’t have any appointments, but I just had hoped to be downtown already, and everything about the morning seemed to add to … Continue reading
Posted in Personal ruminations
Tagged Handel, Ivars Taurins, Messiah, Resolution and Independence, Wordsworth
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Apocalypso
What music accompanies the end of the world? I suppose it depends whether you’re cowering or celebrating, sitting, dancing or running for cover. I ask ironically, of course, because the whole Mayan thing is silly. It’s a finite calendar, limited … Continue reading
10 Questions for Allyson McHardy
Mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy has a voice that invites sensuous adjectives. Radiant? Dusky? Sumptuous? You be the judge. In the past year I wrote about her participation in two very different productions by the same composer, namely Händel: Hercules semi-staged by … Continue reading
Semele in my nose
I had another chance to see & hear and even smell Zhang Huan’s production of Semele at the Canadian Opera Company. Yes, Semele also smells good (and I’m not just saying that to make a feeble joke). Before the curtain … Continue reading
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Tagged Allyson McHardy, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Handel, Jane Archibald, Maclean's, pina bausch, Semele, Steven Humes, William Burden, Zhang Huan
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Jane Archibald as Semele
You never can tell. I would never have predicted which opera would be my favourite of the seven operas programmed this season by the Canadian Opera Company. Both the adventurous staging and the consistently brilliant singing make Handel’s Semele by … Continue reading
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Tagged Allyson McHardy, Canadian Opera Company, Four Seasons Centre, Handel, Jane Archibald, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Semele, Zhang Huan
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Handel and Zhang: great minds thinking alike
I’m writing about two men who made some odd choices, showing a parallel brilliance even though separated by centuries. George Frederic Handel was simply trying to make a living, a composer whose works were sometimes welcomed, sometimes not. Semele, with … Continue reading
Posted in Essays
Tagged Allyson McHardy, Canadian Opera Company, Handel, Jane Archibald, Semele, Zhang Huan
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Multiple voices
It’s a curious coincidence. The two debuts in popular music that I felt at the most visceral level, even though they were separated by many years and with an ocean between them, have something else in common. No I didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Essays
Tagged Alcina, Amy Winehouse, Handel, How Will I Know, Mi restano le lagrime, Rehab, Renee Fleming, Whitney Houston
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10 Questions for Michael Slattery
Since graduating from Juilliard, Michael Slattery has enjoyed an exciting international career. He has worked with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, the French National Orchestra in Paris, the Akademie … Continue reading
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Tagged Acis and Galatea, Atalanta, Bastien und Bastienne, BBC Music Magazine, Benjamin Britten, Berlin Staatsoper, Bernard Labadie, Candide, Cecilian Vespers, Celtic music, Curlew River, Glimmerglass, Gramophone Magazine, Handel, John Dowland, Juilliard, Leonard Bernstein, Les Violons du Roy, Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, lute, Michael Slattery, Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, Mozart, New York Philharmonic, Robert White, Samson, Saul, Scarlatti, Secret and Divine Signs, Solomon, The Irish Heart, the Philadelphia Orchestra
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10 Questions for Kevin Mallon
Kevin Mallon is the Artistic Director of Aradia Ensemble; he will be conducting The Dublin Messiah December 17th at the Glenn Gould Studio. I ask Mallon ten questions: five about himself and five about his work. 1) Which of your … Continue reading
