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I Musici de Montréal dévoile sa 35e saison

By Newswire on 27 March 2018 Classical Music, Newswire, Uncategorized

I MUSICI DE MONTRÉAL DÉVOILE SA 35e SAISON L’ÉVEIL DES SENS Montréal, 27 mars 2018 – C’est à l’Espace culturel Georges-Émile-Lapalme de la Place des Arts que Jean-Marie Zeitouni, directeur artistique d’I Musici de Montréal, a dévoilé la 35e saison de l’ensemble. En compagnie de l’animateur Mario F. Paquet, des 15 musiciens et de quelques artistes invités, nous avons découvert les détails de cette saison ambitieuse. Les faits saillants de la 35e saison d’I Musici de Montréal Depuis déjà 35 ans, I Musici de Montréal va à la rencontre du public montréalais en les transportant et les émouvant. Pour cette saison anniversaire, Jean-Marie Zeitouni et les Musici invitera…

Bohuslav Martinu’s Concertos Passionate

By Norman Lebrecht on 24 March 2018 Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly

Martinu: Double concertos (Pentatone) It feels like I’ve spent half my life trying to persuade people that the next composer they should discover is Bohuslav Martinu. A Czech of limitless melodic permutations, he takes the legacies of Dvorak and Janacek forward into an early modern idiom, infused by a decade of living in Paris. I know no work of Martinu’s that outlasts my interest. He is incapable of being boring. This jam-packed recording presents three of his most scintillating works. If they don’t convert you to Martinu, nothing will. The concerto for two violins and orchestra are played blazingly by…

Royal Opera House announces 11 titles for the 2018/19 Live Cinema Season

By Newswire on 20 March 2018 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

With 11 titles set to be broadcast to more than 500 UK cinemas and to another 1,000 in 40 countries across the globe, the Royal Opera House’s Live Cinema Season 2018/19 will showcase a wide variety of ballet and opera, including three new works, all relayed live from Covent Garden. The 2018/19 Season will feature the great classic of The Royal Ballet’s repertory The Nutcracker and world-renowned opera stars including Michael Fabiano, Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko and Eva-Maria Westbroek among other treats. Tickets for 2018/19 go on sale on Tuesday 4 April 2018 in the UK and on Tuesday 12 June 2018 for international territories. These…

The Overcoat: Tailored for Opera

By Gregory Finney on 19 March 2018 Contemporary, Opera

Tapestry Opera continues its tradition of bringing new work to the stage this spring with a full production of The Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring. Based on The Overcoat, a successful play of 1998 which in turn was based on the classic tale by Nikolai Gogol, this opera features a score by James Rolfe and a libretto by Morris Panych. The opera is a product of Tapestry’s LibLab, a program that pairs leading up-and-coming composers with the most exciting librettists working in Canada today. Panych and Rolfe were paired up in 2014; the playwright came up with the idea of reworking…

The Varian Fry Quartet and Harp Serves Up Mozart

By Norman Lebrecht on 16 March 2018 Chamber Music, Lebrecht Weekly, Strings

Mozart: Concertos (Indé Sens) The only thing that saved this release from being flung unopened into the bin was the quartet’s name and the fact that this is the first fruit of a new label. The Varian Fry Quartet, made up of young Berlin Philharmonic players, is named after an American who saved the lives of at least 2,000 Nazi refugees in the south of France, a largely unsung hero. The label is a bold French venture. But an hour of harp music with string quartet? Come on, there will be plenty of time for that in the afterlife. So…

The Evolution of Frontiers: Six Composer-Librettist Teams Selected for Fort Worth Opera’s Diverse 2018 Showcase

By Newswire on 15 March 2018 Newswire, Opera, Vocal

A gripping portrait of American Industrialist Henry Ford and his son, an ambitious baker with an obsessive quest to bake the perfect baguette, a riveting Biblical tale taken from the Book of Genesis, an international icon of the avant-garde chasing utopia and romance in the American Southwest, and more to be presented during the final week of the 2018 FWOpera Festival. Fort Worth, Texas – Fort Worth Opera (FWOpera) announced today the names of the six composer and librettist teams whose unpublished works have been selected for the company’s sixth annual, critically-acclaimed new works series, Frontiers – funded in part by the…

Geraldine Mucha’s Compositions Show Real Talent

By Norman Lebrecht on 9 March 2018 Contemporary, Lebrecht Weekly, Orchestral

Geraldine Mucha: Macbeth (ArcoDiva) Late in the Second World War, a Scottish girl in London fell in love with a Czech journalist. Geraldine Mucha was a rising talent at the Royal Academy of Music. Jiri Mucha was the son of a world-renowned artist, the man who had remade the fin-de-siecle image of Sarah Bernhardt in a style as unmistakable and widely imitated as Gustav Klimt’s. Newly married, the Muchas returned in autumn 1945 to Prague where, with Rafael Kubelik, they organised the first Prague Spring Festival. When the Communists seized power, Jiri was arrested as an enemy of the people…

William Sterndale Bennett’s Piano Concertos Naive Yet Lovely

By Norman Lebrecht on 2 March 2018 Lebrecht Weekly, Piano, Romantic

William Sterndale Bennett: piano concertos (Hyperion) In half a century of listening to music, I have never attended a work by the foremost English composer of the Victorian era, a man who lived and died a few streets from my London house. Bennett (1816-1875) was acclaimed in his teens as the next Mendelssohn for a D minor piano concerto that Mendelssohn himself, sitting in the audience, found promising. Two more concertos followed before the lad was twenty, the third being praised in Leipzig by no less a contender than Robert Schumann. Bennett, on the strength of these successes, became the…

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s Songs Mature

By Norman Lebrecht on 23 February 2018 Art Song, Lebrecht Weekly, Romantic

Fanny Hensel, ‘the other Mendelssohn’: Complete Songs (Champs Hill) I’m uncomfortable with the album title. Rather than being ‘the other Mendelssohn’, Fanny was the heart of the Mendelssohn family and a fine composer in her own right – despite patriarchal suppression by her father and angry resentment from her brother, Felix. Fanny, married to a Berlin artist, kept her works in a drawer until her late 30s, when she went out and got them published, to Felix’s amazement and grudging admiration. Sadly, there was little time for her to enjoy the reviews. Fanny died of a stroke at 41 and…

The Opéra de Montréal’s 2018-2019 season: Opera, an exceedingly relevant art form

By Newswire on 21 February 2018 Classical Music, Newswire, Opera, Vocal

Montreal, Tuesday, February 20, 2018 – In addition to its four operas at Place des Arts this season, the Opéra de Montréal will present a chamber opera at the Centaur Theatre, and a unique recital by an opera star at the Festival du Monde Arabe. On the program, great artists of today—including many Canadians making a name for themselves on the world’s major stages—bringing us stories both gripping and deeply moving. Two well-known creative artists will also take their first steps in the world of opera: Quebec filmmaker Charles Binamé will present his vision of Carmen, while renowned jazz trumpeter…

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