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OperaJournal: January 2015
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Opera on Blu-ray, DVD, Live and HD-Live. Thursday, 29 January 2015. Monteverdi - Orfeo (Royal Opera House, 2015 - Webcast). Claudio Monteverdi - Orfeo. Royal Opera House at The Roundhouse, 2015. Christopher Moulds, Michael Boyd, Gyula Orendt, Mary Bevan, Susanna Hurrell, Rachel Kelly, Callum Thorpe, James Platt, Susan Bickley, Anthony Gregory, Alexander Sprague, Christopher Lowrey. Royal Opera House Youtube - 21 January 2015. Is one worthy to act as a standard bearer for the artform, for the ingenuity an...
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OperaJournal: December 2014
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Opera on Blu-ray, DVD, Live and HD-Live. Tuesday, 30 December 2014. Beethoven - Fidelio (Milan, 2014 - Webcast). Ludwig van Beethoven - Fidelio. Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 2014. Daniel Barenboim, Deborah Warner, Klaus Florian Vogt, Anja Kampe, Peter Mattei, Falk Struckmann, Mojca Erdmann, Kwangchul Youn, Florian Hoffmann. ARTE Concert - 7 December 2014. The choice of Beethoven's only opera Fidelio. And it is possibly the only worthwhile and discernible point about the stage concept - it's that it helps di...
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OperaJournal: May 2015
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Opera on Blu-ray, DVD, Live and HD-Live. Saturday, 30 May 2015. Cherubini - Medea (Geneva, 2015 - Webcast). Luigi Cherubini - Medea. Grand Théâtre de Genève, 2015. Marko Letonja, Christof Loy, Daniel Okulitch, Grazia Doronzio, Andrea Carè, Alexandra Deshorties, Sara Mingardo, Alexander Milev, Johanna Rudström, Magdalena Risberg. ARTE Concert - 24 April 2015. Even Medea's children aren't as crudely characterised as I make it appear. They are rather just unfortunate bystanders caught in the middle of t...
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The Jade Sphinx: Short Story Week, Part III: The Unfortunate Undead, by Jim Nemeth
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The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography." - Oscar Wilde. Thursday, August 6, 2015. Short Story Week, Part III: The Unfortunate Undead, by Jim Nemeth. And Mad About Movies. He is currently co-writing a book that will examine the literary origins of numerous classic fantasy films. Old One smiled as he looked down on the valley below him. As he continued to gaze, however, the smile quickly melted into a frown. Something is wrong, he thought to himself. Something is...8221; he ...
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OperaJournal: October 2014
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Opera on Blu-ray, DVD, Live and HD-Live. Tuesday, 28 October 2014. Donizetti - Roberto Devereux (Wiener Staatsoper, 2014 - Webcast). Gaetano Donizetti - Roberto Devereux. Wiener Staatsoper, 2014. Andriy Yurkevych, Silviu Purcarete, Edita Gruberova, Paolo Rumetz, Monika Bohinec, Celso Albelo, Peter Jelosits, Marcus Pelz, Hacik Bayvertian, Johannes Gisser. Wiener Staatsoper Live Streaming - 17 October 2014. Like Donizetti's other two Tudor operas, Roberto Devereux. Can be a thrilling experience. Goes, she'...
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The Jade Sphinx: May 2014
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The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography." - Oscar Wilde. Friday, May 9, 2014. Changeable Weather, by Gustave Leonard de Jonghe. Here, a picture for anyone who has suffered through this winter and current spring…. As we have seen in previous pictures, the draftsmanship and compositional skills of. Gustave Leonard de Jonghe. Here, however, de Jonghe conveys emotional impact chiefly through color. The painting Changeable Weather. The landscape outside the window, too, is washe...
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OperaJournal: Rossini - Guillaume Tell (Rossini Opera Festival, 2013 - Blu-ray)
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Opera on Blu-ray, DVD, Live and HD-Live. Sunday, 16 August 2015. Rossini - Guillaume Tell (Rossini Opera Festival, 2013 - Blu-ray). Gioachino Rossini - Guillaume Tell. Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro - 2013. Michele Mariotti, Graham Vick, Nicola Alaimo, Juan Diego Flórez, Marina Rebeka, Simon Orfilia, Amanda Forsythe, Luca Tittolo, Simone Alberghini, Allesandro Luciano, Celso Albelo, Wojtek Gierlach, Veronica Simeoni. Rossini's final opera Guillaume Tell. For the Mariinsky, but as Act II of Guillaume Tell.
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OperaJournal: March 2015
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Opera on Blu-ray, DVD, Live and HD-Live. Wednesday, 25 March 2015. Van der Aa - Sunken Garden (Lyon, 2015 - Lyon). Michel van der Aa - Sunken Garden. Opéra de Lyon, 2015. Etienne Siebens, Michel van der Aa, Roderick Williams, Katherine Manley, Claron McFadden, Jonathan McGovern, Kate Miller-Heidke. TNP, Lyon - 15 March 2015. One of the benefits of seeing a modern and fairly experimental new opera like Michel van der Aa's Sunken Garden. And Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice. Having only heard Sunken Garden. It ca...
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OperaJournal: November 2014
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Opera on Blu-ray, DVD, Live and HD-Live. Saturday, 29 November 2014. Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina (Wiener Staatsoper, 2014 - Webcast). Modest Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina. Wiener Staatsoper, 2014. Semyon Bychkov, Lev Dodin, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Christopher Ventris, Herbert Lippert, Andrzej Dobber, Ain Anger, Elena Maximova, Norbert Ernst. Wiener Staatsoper Live Streaming - 21 November 2014. Set around in the 1680s, the divisions within the ruling forces in Russian society detailed in Khovanshchina. December...
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The Jade Sphinx: Short Story Week, Part II: Jungle Calls, by James Abbott
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The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography." - Oscar Wilde. Wednesday, August 5, 2015. Short Story Week, Part II: Jungle Calls, by James Abbott. We continue our week of original short stories with something by Your Correspondent, Jungle Calls. Outside my window was the jungle. The jungle had claimed another victim. I let the gauzy material of the curtain fall and turned back to my room. Overhead, a ceiling fan spun lazily. The cane-backed chairs would not be out of pla...I too...