by Aleba Gartner | May 17, 2016 | Song of the Day
Last year I had the pleasure of working with the young opera director RB Schlather and his ingenious storefront Handel opera trilogy at Whitebox Gallery just off the Bowery. The whole experience was unlike anything I had witnessed in the music world. It was something...
by Aleba Gartner | May 16, 2016 | Song of the Day
It’s January 1996 at the 92nd Street Y in NYC. The great German baritone Hermann Prey is rehearsing a recital devoted entirely to songs by Carl Loewe (just weeks before The Schubertiade, the celebrated 10-year examination of Schubert’s works, which Prey had...
by NYFOS@Juilliard | May 5, 2016 | Song of the Day
Today’s entry is from NYFOS@Juilliard cast member Gerard Schneider. Today, I have chosen to write about the Act II love duet, ‘Oh, come al tuo sottile corpo s’aggira’, from Pietro Mascagni’s 1896 opera, Iris. In an opera full of truly beautiful music – the serenade,...
by NYFOS@Juilliard | May 2, 2016 | Song of the Day
Today’s entry is from NYFOS@Juilliard cast member Samuel Levine. In art, as in life, there are moments that change everything – moments that, in hindsight, divide our histories into “before” or “after.” Whether it’s falling in love or the fall of the Berlin Wall, the...
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