Pizzicato's Remy Franck met singers Thomas Hampson and Luca Pisaroni, and they spoke about singing today and at the time when Hampson started his career, about the evolution of the operatic world…
You are two singers belonging to different generations. Do you, Thomas, think that your start in your career was easier or more difficult than Luca’s?
TH: It was more difficult for him, because the value system has changed. I still worked in a system where most of the intendants of opera houses were as interested in your development as they were in selling their tickets. Today the priority is production, the priority is the success of the opera house, and there are so many young people wanting to sing that the interchangeability of who is on stage is much wider than when I started. Read More →
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2015-16 season will present 227 opera performances in a varied repertory, ranging from rarely performed masterpieces to perennial audience favorites. The season features six new productions and 18 revivals, starring the world’s greatest singers and conductors, many of them in repertory they have not previously performed with the company. Read More →
The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced a new project aimed at unifying the different El Sistema-like education programs across the United States. Together with the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, the Bard College in upstate New York, the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Mass., and Venezuela’s FundaMusical, L.A. Philh is creating a national platform for youth orchestras. The three-year project will consist of regional orchestra camps in 2016 and a national festival in 2017. Participation in the camps will be free for students.
Charles Gounod: Requiem; Antonin Dvorak: Messe in D; Hye-Lin Hur, Orgel, Anne Bretschneider, Sopran, Christine Lichtenberger, Alt, Holger Marks, Tenor, Georg Witt, Bass, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Polyphonia Ensemble Berlin, Risto Joost; 1 CD Carus 83.386; 1/14 (72’17) – Rezension von Guy Engels
Charles Gounod gehört mit seinen sieben ‘Messes brèves’ zum festen Bestandteil der sakralen Chorliteratur. Seltener ist sein letztes Werk, das Requiem zu hören, dessen Aufführung der Komponist bei seiner eigenen Beisetzung streng untersagte. Die Fassung mit Orgel, die wir in dieser neuen Produktion erleben, konnte Gounod nicht mehr fertigstellen. Read More →
Pierre Certon: Requiem; Vox Cantoris, Jean-Christophe Candau; 1 CD Psalmus PSAL020; 11/12 (59’23) – Rezension von Guy Engels
Pierre Certon (1510-1572) folgt mit seiner Totenmesse als Hommage an seinen Vorgänger als Chorleiter der Sainte-Chapelle einer im 16. Jahrhundert weit verbreiteten Praxis. Ebenso festgeschrieben war damals die Form im Requiem, die den rituellen Ablauf der Totenfeier widerspiegelt und sich nicht einzig auf den liturgischen Aspekt beschränkt. Read More →
Just before the first performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto, on Tuesday night, Rome Opera house rejected the Union’s request to reconsider the mass firing of 182 orchestra and choir members. The artists said they were disappointed with the decision but that they would perform.
The Finnish National Opera and the Finnish National Ballet will be contributing to the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jean Sibelius with the world premiere of the expansive ‘Kullervo’ by Tero Saarinen, alternately conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Pietari Inkinen (February 2015) and with a concert themed around the work of author Roald Dahl, to which 4,000 schoolchildren of Helsinki will be invited next May. Read More →
Der Luxemburger Kulturradio ‘radio 100,7’ startet am 15. September 2014 mit einer neuen Programmstruktur in die Saison 2014-15. Der Bereich der Informationssendungen wird breiter aufgestellt, mit, an Wochentagen, 17 Nachrichtensendungen. Ein neues Morgenmagazin wird von montags bis samstags von 09.05-10.00 Uhr von Jay Schiltz live moderiert. Das ‘Moies Magazin’ enthält längere Beiträge über soziale und gesellschaftliche Themen sowie über Kultur, Technik und Wissenschaft. Neben anderen kulturellen Bereichen bleibt die klassische Musik ein wichtiger Pfeiler des Programms. Read More →
La Jolla Music Society, after nearly a half-century as a tenant of other San Diego cultural institutions, is planning to build its own, $40 million performing arts center. The most important presenter of visiting classical music artists and orchestras in San Diego, the Music Society closed escrow on a parcel of land at 7600 Fay Ave. in La Jolla, an affluent seaside neighborhood in San Diego, California. Read More →
Anton Bruckner: Messe Nr. 3 f-Moll; Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Anke Vondung, Dominik Wortig, Franz-Josef Selig, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bamberger Symphoniker, Robin Ticciati; 1 SACD Tudor 7193; 4/13 (62'11) - Rezension von Remy Franck
Mit 18 Jahren, 1842, schrieb Anton Bruckner seine erste Messe, und diese Windhaager Messe war seine erste größere Komposition. In der zweiten Hälfte der Sechziger Jahre entstanden die drei großen Moll-Messen, quasi zeitgleich mit der ersten Symphonie und damit an der Scharniere zwischen den Phasen der geistlichen Vokalmusik und der Symphonik. Read More →
