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On this day in 1782 Mozart‘s Die Entführung aus dem Serail premiered in Vienna
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The rule that governs Dante’s Inferno is called the “contrapasso” – that every sinner is given a punishment in poetic proportion to their crime.
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Happy 44th birthday to Broadway’s Laura Benanti
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Born on this day in 1918 director and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman
Daniele Rustioni conducts Ermonela Jaho, Adam Smith, Mihoko Fujimura, and Lionel Lhote in a slightly delayed broadcast of Andrea Breth‘s production from Aix-en-Provence
A performance recorded earlier this month in London featuring Golda Schultz, Samantha Hankey, Daniel Behle, Andrè Schuen, Gerald Finley, and Jennifer France conducted by Alexander Soddy
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Raphaël Pichon conducts the Pygmalion ensemble and Jarrett Ott, Jacquelyn Stucker, Lea Desandre, and Nahuel Di Pierro in Claus Guth‘s revivification of Rameau and Voltaire‘s lost opera live from Aix-en-Provence
A broadcast of Dmitri Tcherniakov‘s back-to-back Gluck productions from Aix-en-Provence featuring Corinne Winters, Russell Braun, Véronique Gens, Florian Sempey, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, and Alexandre Duhamel with Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm
Born on this day in 1925 soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs…
During the 1970s, Stephen Sondheim composed Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures and Sweeney Todd–five richly varied masterpieces of musical theater in a nearly miraculous burst of creativity.
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Ben Bliss, Sabine Devieilhe, Franz-Josef Selig, Sophie Koch, and Christian Gerhaher are conducted in a live broadcast from the Munich Opera Festival by Hannu Lintu
As revivals of the composer’s sprawling works represent a daunting expense for many opera houses, exceptionally cast recordings of such concert performances serve as valuable documents that foster appreciation for his achievements.
Raphaël Pichon conducts the Pygmalion ensemble and Jarrett Ott, Jacquelyn Stucker, Lea Desandre, and Nahuel Di Pierro in Claus Guth‘s revivification of Rameau and Voltaire‘s lost opera from Aix-en-Provence
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