15 pieces since 2011 — in 6 roles, at 4 companies, most often at St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
The English Concert’s annual Handel tour brings Solomon conducted by Harry Bicket to the US beginning Sunday March 5. In anticipation, Chris’s Cache offers Solomon plus four other oratorios by the master: Belshazzar, Hercules, Saul and Jephtha, all via broadcasts for which I feel a personal connection.
A broadcast of Weill and Brecht’s pungent Die Dreigroschenoper
This week we get closer to completing the operas of Benjamin Britten with The Rape of Lucretia.
This month, both the Paris Opéra and the Opéra-Comique are mounting seminal works about unhinged anti-heroines who meet their downfall after falling head-over-heels for an unavailable, deeply unattainable man – Salome, in the case of the Opéra; and Armide, in the case of the Opéra-Comique.
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra offered a rending reading of Britten‘s massive War Requiem with an eclectic trio of soloists.
Welcome, beloveds, to the Jessye Norman Memorial Museum. I’ll be the docent for your tour today.
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