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Don Pasquale
Don Pasquale Don Pasquale, dramma buffo in three acts, music by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and Gaetano Donizetti, conducted by Evelino Pidò, directed by Damiano Michieletto, Royal Opera, Monday 14th October 2019, reviewed by Leslie Jones In director … Continue reading
ENDNOTES, October 2019
ENDNOTES, October 2019 Stuart Millson reviews Bach in Kent and a new Berlioz recording from Toronto Bach’s Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 – dating from 1741 – is a work often referred to as one of the greatest achievements in all … Continue reading
Review of Werther
Review of Werther by Leslie Jones Werther, drame lyrique in four acts, music by Jules Massenet, libretto by Édouard Blau, Paul Milliet and George Hartmann, after Goethe’s novel Die Leiden des Jungen Werthers, orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by … Continue reading
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Tagged Goethe, Isabel Leonard, Juan Diego Flórez, Massenet, Wagner, Werther
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ENDNOTES, September 2019
ENDNOTES, September 2019 Stuart Millson on the film music of Lord Berners In 1944, the directors at Ealing Studios (Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti and Michael Balcon) were working on a new production, The Halfway House– a story set mainly in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ealing Studios, Lord Berners, The Halfway House, The Peaceful Inn
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Scents and Sensibility
Scents and Sensibility Don Giovanni; Ossia Il Dissoluto Punito, opera buffa in two acts, music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, a further revival of the 2014 production, conducted by Hartmut Haenchen, directed by Kasper Holten, Royal … Continue reading
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Tagged Don Giovanni, Erwin Schrott, Freud, Mozart
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Blake, Envisioned
Blake, Envisioned William Blake, an exhibition, Tate Britain, 11th Sept 2019 to 2nd Feb 2020 William Blake, by Martin Myrone & Amy Concannon, Tate, 2019, reviewed by Leslie Jones William Blake was born in London, on 28th November 1757, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Dissent, Hans Eysenck, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake
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Kubrick’s Final Film
Kubrick’s Final Film Ilana Mercer grabs more shut-eye Stanley Kubrick’s farewell film, Eyes Wide Shut, has turned 20. I reviewed it for a Canadian newspaper on August 9, 1999, and found it not only pretentious and overrated, but something of a … Continue reading
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Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Nicole Kidman, Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise
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Something Missing in Propertius
Something Missing in Propertius by Darrell Sutton Readers can be perplexed by the arguments that textual critics employ when they emend the wording of ancient writers. Critics’ trains of thought are not easy to follow at times; but assiduity is … Continue reading
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Tagged A E Houseman, Homer, Propertius, The Iliad
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ENDNOTES, August 2019
ENDNOTES, August 2019 In this edition: Pergolesi, A Neapolitan Stabat Mater; the film music of Gerard Schurmann, reviewed by Stuart Millson From the extraordinary across-the-centuries choral archive that is the ICSM/CHRONOS record label, comes one of the most surprising and dazzlingly … Continue reading
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Tagged Franck-Emmanuel Comte, Gerard Schurmann, Pergolesi, Stabat Mater
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