Archive for April, 2009

A Daring Turn of the “Ring”

Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen  (“The Copenhagen Ring”) Decca 0743264 (7- DVD set)
 Half a century ago the first studio recording of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen [...]

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Fri Apr 03, 2009
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Amici Quartet surmounts Beethoven’s complexity

 Somewhere in space, about eight billion miles from Earth, are two gold-plated records, which include Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13 in B flat [...]

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Fri Apr 03, 2009
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April Concert Calendar

April 25
Florida Grand Opera: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
Shu-Ying Li, Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Katharine Goeldner, Jake Gardner; Stewart Robertson, conductor
7 p.m. Arsht Center/Ziff Ballet Opera House
www.fgo.org; 800-741-1010
Master Chorale [...]

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Thu Apr 02, 2009
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Fidel goes to the opera

Opera has always seized upon controversy, strong emotions, unbridled passion, and Grand Guignol. Berg’s Lulu, for example, introduces Jack the Ripper as one of its [...]

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Thu Apr 02, 2009
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