Tag Archives: Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming Opens Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s 2014-15 Season
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th September 2014Renée Fleming opened the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s 2014-15 season before a capacity audience at the Civic Center Auditorium. Ms Fleming appeared in both halves of the concert. The program is below. Fleming who has obviously done this kind of show before had the crowd with her from the moment she first appeared. At this point…
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Renée Fleming to Open Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s 2014-15 Season
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th August 2014The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra opens it 2014-15 season on September 9th with Renée Fleming as guest artist. Music Director David Cho conducts.
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Rodelinda in HD – Capo Di Tutti Capi
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 3rd December 2011Handel’s opera Rodelinda was broadcast on the Metropolitan Opera’s HD network today. First performed in 1725 it was performed for the first time by the company in 2004. The reason for the opera’s emergence from the dustbin of operatic history was Renée Fleming who performed the title role that season and again during the following one. This revival…
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Recording of the Week: Four Last Songs
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 17th June 2010Richard Strauss’ Four Last Songs are not only a personal valedictory, but they are the end of more than a century of glorious German art songs; they are the farewell to the lieder of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, Mahler, and finally Strauss himself. These hibernal songs written shortly before the composer’s death, and not performed…
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Armida Not Live in HD
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 20th May 2010I was out of the country when Rossini’s rarity Armida was telecast live from the Met May 1. Accordingly, I went to the repeat broadcast. Never before performed at the Met Rossini wrote the piece in 1817 for Naples’ San Carlo as a vehicle for his future wife Isabella Colbran. Renée Fleming was the reason…
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Glück, Das Mir Verblieb
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 18th March 2009Erich Korngold’s opera Die Tote Stadt (first performed in 1920) is best known for its aria “Glück, das mir verblieb” also known as “Marietta’s Lied”. Actually it’s a duet for tenor and soprano. Less well known is the tenor version of the same tune which closes the opera. The first line is the same but…
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Opera in the Original Language
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th March 2009Last night the Met performed Dvořák’s opera Rusalka for the first time since 2004. The opera was performed in its original Czech. Most operas in the standard repertoire are in Italian, German, or French. Accordingly, most opera singers are reasonably comfortable in those languages. But how about Czech? This production has only one Czech performer…
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The Met's Thaïs in HD
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 21st December 2008Jules Massenet’s opera Thaïs was premiered in 1894. Since then it has been a little beyond the frontier of the standard operatic repertoire. It’s periodically revived for star sopranos. The Met’s current production is a vehicle for Renée Fleming. Without her there would be little reason to mount the opera. While it has moments that…
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