The Magic Flute, Salzburg Festival, review: a promising production brought down by its own piousness
Lydia Steier's adaptation features some admirable innovations but gets bogged down in anti-war allusions
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Lydia Steier's adaptation features some admirable innovations but gets bogged down in anti-war allusions
Review: Leeds Lieder Autumn Series, The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire, November 25th-27th, 2021
Wagner’s Die Walküre. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Christopher Ventris, Ain Anger, Waltraud Meier, Linda Watson, and Tomasz Konieczny. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here. 1 pm ET: Copland House presents Underscored: Jalbert’s Crossings. Vermont-born composer Pierre Jalbert was inspired by the migration of people voyaging into new and unfamiliar places and traces Jalbert’s own French-Canadian-American ancestry. Crossings is built around a folk song from Quebec, Quand j’ai parti du Canada (When I Left Canada), which is deco...