Monthly Archives: April 2012
All of Jussi Björling’s Commercial Recordings on the Web
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 22nd April 2012New posts will resume next month. In the meanwhile visit this site which contains all of the solo commercial recordings made by the great Swedish tenor. There are a few excerpts with other singers, but most of the material is solo.
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Doing Nothing – New Revised Edition
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th April 2012A new Edition of Doing Nothing has been released. It can be purchased at Amazon as either a paperback book or in a Kindle edition. Go here for more details. Below is a new review of the novel: Kurtzman, Neil DOING NOTHING CreateSpace (708 pp.) $23.35 Paperback $9.99 e-book January 6, 2012 ISBN: 978-1461096535 Kurtzman’s debut…
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Manon in HD – Crazy Stupid Love
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 7th April 2012The Metropolitan Opera transmitted its penultimate HD telecast of this season – Massenet’s Manon – on Saturday April 7, 2012. Manon is the most French opera I can think of. It’s almost like an opera Debussy would have written had he been able or inclined to write boffo arias and duets. This new production was staged by Laurent Pully who…
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La Muette de Portici Premiered at Opéra-Comique
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 5th April 2012Daniel Auber’s rarely performed opera La Muette de Portici was stage by the Opéra-Comique in Paris yesterday. It featured the rising young American tenor Michael Spyres. The opera was a success at its premiere in 1828, but then disappeared from the repertory and is known, if known at all, as the first Grand Opera – a genre dominated by Meyerbeer,…
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