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Maria Callas converted me to opera. I am sure I am not unique in this, except in the particulars. In my early college years I immersed myself in recordings of the nineteenth-century symphonic repertory—Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner, the Russians—but for a long time I refused to listen to opera, would listen to an overture and then rush to change the record before the singing started. Then one day my roommate put Callas’s 1953 Tosca on the turntable and dropped the needle onto “Vissi d’ar…
almost 11 years ago
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Maria Callas converted me to opera. I am sure I am not unique in this, except in
the particulars. In my early college years I immersed myself in
over 10 years ago
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With *Don Carlos* Verdi intended, as the English critic and musicologist Andrew Porter wrote, “to give a new nobility and purpose to grand opera.” The result, according to Porter, is Verdi’s “most ambitious opera.” But such a grandiose vision proved unwieldy. One imagines that in the end Porter would have agreed with Julian Budden’s broad-minded conclusion: “When performed with sufficient musical and dramatic understanding any combination of versions can be made to sound convincing.”
about 10 years ago
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While Beverly Sills claimed that Roberto Devereux “was both the greatest artistic challenge and the finest achievement of my career,” she also acknowledged that it shortened her career by at least four years—a price that she was happy to pay.
over 9 years ago
nybooks.com
With *Don Carlos* Verdi intended, as the English critic and musicologist Andrew
Porter wrote, “to give a new nobility and purpose to grand opera.” The result,
according to Porter, is Verdi’s “most ambitious opera.” But such a grandiose
vision proved unwieldy. One imagines that in the end Porter woul…
over 5 years ago
nybooks.com
Maria Callas converted me to opera. I am sure I am not unique in this, except in
the particulars. In my early college years I immersed myself in recordings of
the nineteenth-century symphonic repertory—Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms,
Bruckner, the Russians—but for a long time I refused to listen to ope…
over 5 years ago
nybooks.com
In “The Best Faces of the Enlightenment,” from the April 8 issue of The New York
Review, Willibald Sauerländer writes about a new exhibition of the work of
Jean-Antoine Houdon, whom he calls “the last and probably greatest French
sculptor of the eighteenth century.” In his works—a selection of which…
over 5 years ago
nybooks.com
In “The Best Faces of the Enlightenment,” from the April 8 issue of The New York
Review, Willibald Sauerländer writes about a new exhibition of the work of
Jean-Antoine Houdon, whom he calls “the last and probably greatest French
sculptor of the eighteenth century.” In his works—a selection of which…
over 5 years ago
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