Elina Garanca in Carmen. Teatro alla Scala, 2015. (Photo: Marco Brescia & Rudy Amisano)
Treble clefs by (L to R) Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Debussy, and Ravel.
The Metropolitan Opera is reviving one of their most beautiful productions, Rusalka, for Renee Fleming over the next few weeks. There will be an HD Transmission, that you can’t miss.
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Ten Favorite Christmas Carols, arranged by yours truly. SATB, one or two instances of SATBB.
Arranged these puppies for some friends and I to go caroling in a couple of weeks. If you have singing friends who like the old school Christmas crack, feel free to have at. Traditional settings,…
Renee Fleming and Anthony Freud, during an American Voices Panel
Renee Fleming: What about image? How much pressure is there on young singers to be attractive? Just now, I was in Vienna, and Jonas Kaufmann had cut outs of him all over Vienna, free standing ones by the way. Your own life sized paper doll of Jonas Kaufmann does exist. He was unshaven, leather coat, rock star image thing!Anthony Freud: Did you have to check it, Renee, or could you bring it back in hand luggage?
Renee Fleming: I took two. I brought two home.
Iconic historical stage designs for The Queen of the Night sequence from Mozart’s “Magic Flute” - the first image by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in 1815, the second by Simon Quaglio in 1818 (x)
The 13 worst things to happen to a classical musician
A compendium of horrible things that can only happen to classical musicians. Prepare yourself.
Classicalite's Five Worst: Operatic Disasters
Something about the sheer heavens-defying scale of attempting to stage opera at all, about the fact that somehow it usually comes together and works against all the odds, means that the disasters are write similarly large.
Rene Barbera, Larry Brownlee, Wayne Tigges singing “More than Words.” Joyce Didonato is lip syncing.