Ian Bostridge: “Apologies for Wigmore cancellation on Saturday; singing on a cough for four weeks, finally have to give it a rest.”
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“What do you call a sex comedy that’s neither funny nor sexy? At the Met on Tuesday night, you’d have called it ‘Cosi Fan Tutte.’”–James Jorden, New York Post
Ian Bostridge is in Spain, “Chilling out with a glut of Mad Men.”
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Gerald Finley: Wigmore Hall, 29th October 2010, review, 4.5 stars, John E. de Wald, Opera Britannia
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James Jorden reviews Carmen at the Met. New York Post
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Tomorrow Simon & Schuster publishes Natalie Cole‘s “Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain,” reports Cindy Adams.
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Nathan Gunn’s name is strangely popular on the porno spam blogs that come up when one uses Google to search for references to him on blogs.
Simon Keenlyside / Julius Drake, Temple Church, London, reviewed by Edward Seckerson, independent.co.uk, 5 stars
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“Switching between Handel, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Caldara, Conti and Gasparini, Bostridge avoids that wearying tendency to fizz the music up breathlessly, opting instead for clean edges and eloquence. The English Concert, conducted by Bernard Labadie, add real verve.”–Fiona Maddocks, The Observer, guardian.co.uk, brief review of Ian Bostridge’s new CD Three Baroque Tenors.
Wigmore Hall: on top of the world
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Dallas Opera Commissions Moby-Dick’s Heggie and Scheer For Song Cycle Featuring Baritone Nathan Gunn
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Ian Bostridge is posting messsages on Facebook.
Ian Bostridge’s new book, A Singer’s Scrapbook, is scheduled for release on May 5, 2011, says amazon.co.uk.
Product Description
Ian Bostridge is one of the outstanding singers of our time, celebrated both for the quality of his voice and for the exceptional intelligence he brings to bear on the interpretation of the repertoire of the past and present alike. Yet his early career was that of a professional historian, and A Singer’s Scrapbook takes a look at the multifaceted world of classical music through the eyes of someone whose career as a singer has followed a unique trajectory. Consisting of short essays and reviews written since 1997, some in diary form, it ranges widely over issues serious (music and transcendence) and not so serious (the singer’s battles with phlegm), while inevitably discussing many of the composers with whom Bostridge has become identified, such as Britten, Henze, Janacek, Schubert, Weill and Wolf. Ultimately it returns to the theme of his earlier work on seventeenth century witchcraft — what place can there be for the ineffable in a world defined by an iron cage of rationality? Including a foreword by the eminent sociologist, Richard Sennett, A Singer’s Scrapbook is an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of one of Britain’s best loved musicians.
“CNBC is launching a brand new weekly arts programme for its autumn schedule. CNBC Performance will showcase full-length performances of renowned opera and ballet by some of the world’s most prestigious companies.
“CNBC Performance will launch on Sunday, 19th September at 4pm with La Boheme, Giacomo Puccini’s famous four-act opera, performed by the Teatro Real, Madrid.”–CNBC
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Boxed set of Schumann songs arrived in the mail today.
Hyperion has assembled their recordings of the songs of Robert Schumann into a 10-CD set of the complete songs of Robert Schumann, arranged in chronological order. Release is scheduled for the end of August in the United Kingdom and Germany, and for mid September in the United States. Among the vocal soloists are Dorothea Röschmann, Juliane Banse, Ian Bostridge, Simon Keenlyside, and Christopher Maltman.
CD, amazon.co.uk
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Schumann: The Complete Songs, arkivmusic.com
CD, amazon.de
In Canada’s Juno Awards, the winner in the category CLASSICAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR: VOCAL OR CHORAL PERFORMANCE was “Adrianne Pieczonka sings Puccini.”
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The recital of Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake that had been scheduled for 21 April in Graz, Austria, will be postponed until 24 June, reports JuliusDrake.info.
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Carnegie Hall’s 2010-2011 brochure arrived in the mail today. I just looked through it. Nothing in it makes me think, “Oh, I want to go to New York for that!”
Tenor James Valenti has been announced as the winner of the 2010 Richard Tucker Award.
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“The grounding of UK flights because of the volcanic ash-plume hovering over Europe, has resulted in Julius [Drake] and Ian Bostridge having to postpone tonight’s recital in Perugia. It will now take place on 11 June 2010,” reports JuliusDrake.info.
At the Wigmore Hall, London:
Cancelled Concerts: Jean-Guihen Queyras Saturday 17 April 1:00 PM & 7:30 PM – owing to travel restrictions.
Cancelled Concert: Anthony Marwood; Steven Isserlis; Thomas Adès – Sunday April 18 at 7.30 PM – owing to travel restrictions.
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Volcanic ash from Iceland strands Norway’s prime minister in NYC airport, so he governs via iPad
–NYDailyNews.com
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“Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano has been erupting for nearly a month, but it wasn’t until clouds of ash halted air traffic in Europe this week that the eruption drew global attention. The volcano could continue erupting for months on end — the last time it blew, in 1821, the eruption lasted for two years — so climatologists are questioning whether the volcano will have a cooling effect on the earth’s climate.”–theatlantic.com
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Jessica Duchen offers do’s and don’t's for page turners.
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St John Passion, St John’s, Smith Square, London, reviewed by Martin Kettle, guardian.co.uk, 4 stars
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Rehearsals start this week for Opera Boston‘s production of La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein, with Stephanie Blythe!
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Vittorio Grigolo will be appearing in La Traviata in Valencia on dates this month, April 2010.
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A DVD of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Joyce DiDonato in a wheelchair, Juan Diego Flórez, and Pietro Spagnoli is scheduled for release at amazon.com on April 20, 2010.
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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos conducted Mendelssohns oratorio Elijah with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Stephanie Blythe, Christine Brewer, Anthony Dean Griffey, and Shenyang.
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University of Oregon’s all male acappella group On The Rocks Rick Roll’s the A train in NYC (Chambers St headed uptown to 14th).
Conductor Slatkin Leaves Met’s ‘La Traviata’
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Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake at Alice Tully Hall, reviewed by Vivien Schweitzer, New York Times
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Finley vertaalt schoonheid in het Engels
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Hamlet HD broadcast reviewed by David Abrams, MusicalCriticism.com, 3.5 stars
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Katherine Jenkins: ‘I like to try to always be classy’
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Baritone Randal Turner is making his U.S. opera debut in Don Giovanni in Detroit.–pridesource.com
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