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 | | This is one of the best Elektras on CD, with satisfactory mono sound. | | | This actually is Solti's second recording of music from Elektra - he had recorded excerpts with Christel Goltz for Polydor/American Decca. | | | A cursory look at the score shows Elektra sings eight B-flats and four high Cs; she is on stage for most of the time during the duration of the opera (Solti's uncut version takes 108 minutes; standard cuts bring performance time to about ten minutes less). |
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http://classicalcdreview.com/elektra.htm
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| | Elektra (Richard Strauss) - Synopsis |
| | But at the production of the work in the Manhattan Opera House, it seemed to me not only one of Strauss’s most spontaneous lyrical outgivings, but also one of the most beautiful I had ever heard. | | | It is a summing up of emotions, in one eloquent burst of song, which occurs when Elektra recognizes Orestes. | | | Schumann-Heink, the Clytemnestra of the original production in Dresden: "I will never sing the role again. |
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http://www.music-with-ease.com/strauss-elektra-synopsis.html
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| | ELEKTRA a discourse and survey: Classical CD Reviews-July 2000 Music on the Web(UK) |
| | Elektra has not often been recorded in the studio, undoubted masterpiece that it is, but we are fortunate to have a number of great recordings taken from 'live' broadcasts. | | | Inge Borkh's 1957 Salzburg Elektra with Dmitri Mitropoulos is narrowly preferable to her studio recording with Böhm, although that performance alone is worth acquiring for the superb playing of the Dresden Staatskapelle. | | | But it is also an opera of contrasts: both theatrical and psychological, dissonant climaxes set against intense lyricism (Elektra's dance of death played out against the lyricism of the Recognition Scene between Elektra and Orest). |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/july00/elektra.htm
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| | May 20 & 23 |
| | The part of Elektra was sung by Annie Krull; the first Klytemnestra was the great Ernestine Schumann-Heink who, however, resigned after the first performance because she found the music "vocally uncongenial." Elektra received its American premiere at the Manhattan Opera Company, produced by Oscar Hammerstein Sr., on February 1, 1910 (in French). | | | Elektra is, in a way, the flipside of Salome : whereas Oscar Wilde's heroine is consumed with erotic passion, Elektra is disgusted with everything sexual and feels only scorn for her sister's femininity. | | | This is Elektra's most lyrical (perhaps her only lyrical) moment. |
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http://www.clevelandorch.com/images/FTPImages/performance/program_notes/052004.html
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| | re:opera - r.strauss |
| | The recorded sound is rather metallic and balances are unhelpful to gentler sounding instruments and is defintely favourable to singers. | | | Opera d’Oro released it complete, but I had read that the sound is not very good. | | | Sawallisch has been an advocate of this opera and I would be happy if the Bavarian Radio was generous enough to release two performances of his which are precious for straussians - the one with the marvellous Lucia Popp and Wolfgang Brendel and the beautiful account with Felicity Lott and Bernd Weikl. |
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http://www.geocities.com/rmlibonati/strauss.html
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| | CCM Announces 2003-04 Mainstage Season |
| | Complete with romance, wit, deception and a rich musical score, this light-hearted opera proves that when the wager is on love, everyone wins. | | | The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music will present an enchanting and striking 2003-04 Mainstage season of operas, musicals and dramas. | | | On the Town will take the Corbett Auditorium stage November 20-23 and will be directed by Aubrey Berg, with musical direction by Roger Grodsky and choreography by Diane Lala. |
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http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=608
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| | HearSay: Artbytes WHRO |
| | The musical score is, not surprisingly, tough to do with clarity and cohesiveness. | | | Unlike most Strauss operas, it's not marked by long, sustained passages of lush, lyrical content. | | | Plus, she's got the know-how and skill to project over the 60-some-member orchestra that, at times, plays full force, which adds to the listening thrills and chills heard here. |
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http://www.whro.org/hearsay/artbytes/01_28_02.shtml
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| | Cincinnati Opera · Summer Festival |
| | The Metropolitan Opera heard his performance in Radio City Music Hall's production of Porgy and Bess and immediately engaged him for their own production. | | | In 1988, he was appointed Associate Conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, and he continues to work as a composer. | | | Musical theatre credits include the role of Ubaldo Piangi in Phantom of the Opera, both on Broadway and in Toronto, and the title role of Sweeney Todd in the Calgary Opera production. |
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http://www.cincinnatiopera.com/content.jsp?articleId=68
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| | HBvocalists |
| | In the 1999-2000 season she sang Erda in Siegfried with the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome; Erda in Das Rheingold with the Bilbao Opera; Songs and Dances of Death in Copenhagen; Gaea in Daphne in Linz; and the world premiere of songs with text by Dorothy Parker by Brad Braxton Blake with the Sonderjyllands Symphony. | | | Rabiner sang the First Maid in Elektra with the Metropolitan Opera, Katisha in The Mikado with Lyric Opera of San Antonio, as well as a Handel solo cantata and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival. | | | She also sang Szenen aus Goethes Faust with the RAI Torino and Jeffrey Tate; Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with both the Toronto Symphony and the St. Louis Symphony; and Poul Ruders' City in the Sea, a work written for her, in Århus, Demnark. |
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http://www.herbertbarrett.com/contraltos.htm
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| | NPR's At the Opera |
| | Hoffmansthal’s play was seen by the composer Richard Strauss, who decided that what the public really needed was the musical version. | | | While he’s relaxing, Clytemnestra and Aegistheus sneak up on him with a pick-axe. | | | They always began with an introduction called “The Story So Far,” that brought you up to date in case you’d missed last week’s episode. |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/attheopera/archives/001014.ato.html
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| | Elektra, Aida & Freichutz; Munich Opera, May 2000 (AW) |
| | There was no problem integrating the visual and musical aspects of this production. | | | This production achieved a unity of high intensity between the musical and the visual aspects of the drama. | | | The stage lighting from bright daylight to dusk, to dark and to the nightmare fantasy scenes added a magical quality to the work. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2000/may00/elektra.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: Video: Elektra - Opera |
| | Rysanek subsequently recorded Elektra with Bohm to great accolades but she was still 55 at the time of the recording. | | | Coming back to this recording, it is obvious that Birgit Nilsson is conserving her voice at the beginning monologue Agammenon. | | | The Birgit Nilsson Elektra here is no longer brutal and hard as in the Solti recording. |
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http://amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/6300217841
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Elektra (Complete) |
| | I have been searching for a great recording of Strauss' Elektra for years, but eventually concluded that there was no such animal and so opted for the Seiji Ozawa recording with Hildegard Behrens (in pretty awful voice) simply because Ozawa's conducting was so intense, as was Behrens' vocal acting. | | | Very good mono recording that is far superior to various pirate recordings that have circulated over the years. | | | He not only infuses the Vienna Philharmonic with savage fire, but manages to bring out the lyrical qualities of the score as well--an accomplishment that Solti, for all his wonderful qualities, seemed unable to do. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000044XQ?v=glance
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| | Susan Marie Pierson- The American Opera Soprano: Biography |
| | A return engagement to Chemnitz for Brünnhilde in the Ring Cycle was followed with three more performances of Elektra and her debut as Soprano Soloist with the Springfield Symphony in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. | | | The 2004-05 season continues with another Ring Cycle for Chemnitz in November, followed by a return engagement with Austin Lyric Opera as Elektra in January. | | | Miss Pierson has performed with the Innsbruck Symphony, Orchestre National de Paris, Phoenix Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Springfield Symphony and Canton Symphony, and sung solo roles under direction of Zubin Mehta, Donald Runicles, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Jeffrey Tate, Leif Segerstam and others. |
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http://www.susanmariepierson.com/piersonbiography.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: R Strauss: Elektra |
| | PS: another brilliant Strauss recording that I came across is the DVD of Rosenkavalier with Te Kanawa and Bonney (cond. | | | The reviewers on the.com website pull this recording of Elektra to shreds. | | | Visit our audio help page for more information. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001GYL
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Strauss: Elektra |
| | This is one of the great Elektras of the 20th century, don't miss the performance - there are no modern stereo digital Elektras that can compete with this recording - only the Solti and Bohm Elektras can beat this. | | | Yes, this recording of Elekta is the answer!! |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001XN9?v=glance
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| | Cleveland Orchestra Program |
| | Offers an in-depth analysis of Elektra's plot and music. | | | For several years, his witty and informative lectures on classical music have won avid audiences at the Seattle Symphony at Centrum, the International Music Festival of Seattle, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and the Spokane Symphony. | | | WCLV 104.9 FM will broadcast the Elektra lecture on May 17 at 9 p.m. |
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http://www.cuyahogalibrary.org/classespages/program_orchestra.htm
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| | Review: Elektra |
| | While Dead Man Walking was thought provoking, Elektra was extraordinary musically and theatrically—providing one of those rare unforgettable nights in an opera house. | | | For anyone who believes that, whenever possible, music should be a soul-wrenching, cathartic experience, Cincinnati Opera’s presentation of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and Richard Strauss’ Elektra in a single weekend offered unusual opportunities. | | | The landscape surrounding the fortress is as craggy and fractured as Elektra’s mental state and musical lines. |
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http://nicholasmuni.com/review_Elektra.php
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| | Elektra |
| | Recent engagements at the Canadian Opera include Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and the title role in Elektra, a performance for which she was nominated for Canada's Moore Award (the Canadian Tony Awards), the first opera singer ever nominated. | | | The psychoanalytic age is nowhere more musically brilliant than in Strauss' Elektra. | | | He has appeared at Lyric Opera of Chicago as Shuisky in Boris, as Vitek in The Makropoulos Case and as Begerass in The Ghosts of Versailles. |
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http://www.longbeachopera.org/gallery/glry_elek.html
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| | Music Timeline, 1904-1914 |
| | And in 1906, the first radio transmission of music was made. | | | Feb.17 > Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly premieres in Milan, failing in its original production | | | Jan.13 > Lee DeForest broadcasts a performance of Caruso from the New York Metropolitan Opera |
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http://cnparm.home.texas.net/Subj/Music.htm
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| | Santa Fe Opera Reviews, Part Two |
| | Most successful at creating an appealing sense of lyricism was Ventris (San Francisco Opera's excellent Parsifal last June), but the music for Clement was more congenial than that composed for Mars or Venus. | | | We learn from an eminent music critic that John Crosby is a "second-rate Strauss" conductor. | | | The world's premiere orchestras were always his to command. |
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http://www.sandiego-online.com/opera/santareviews2.stm
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| | "Strauss and Sophocles' Elektra at the Lyric Opera house in Baltimore |
| | "Strauss and Sophocles' Elektra at the Lyric Opera house in Baltimore | | | "What's remarkable about Scotto's Klytämnestra is how idiomatic she sounds in Strauss' German...this opportunity to catch Scotto should be leapt at...Christian Badea whips the orchestra into a frenzy...under his baton, Elektra's story is retold as if all of our lives depend on it." | | | "As Covent Garden audiences know, Zschau has the equipment for Elektra, from the manic stamina to the piercing top C that must cut through at climactic moments...Her scenes with Renate Behle's Chrysothomis and with the impressive Tom Fox as Orestes, were as completing and disturbing as anyone could want." |
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http://www.baltimoreopera.com/season/elektra.asp
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| | Elektra: a one-act opera by Richard Strauss |
| | The most tightly structured of his operas, it is dissonant and complex, befitting the story's gruesome internecine plot, though it is not without moments of lyricism. | | | It premiered in Dresden on January 25, 1909 to mixed, often negative, reviews. |
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http://www.ffaire.com/behrens/elektraleft.html
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts reviews Elektra |
| | The Royal Opera's last production, by Götz Friedrich and first seen in 1990, managed that superbly; its replacement, directed and designed by Charles Edwards, is far less convincing, but the musical performances are generally so powerful that the absence of theatrical vision is mitigated. | | | So much is crammed into Richard Strauss's Elektra that the drama is almost entirely conveyed through the music. | | | It is Strauss's closest approach to raw expressionism, and any staging of the work has to go along with the imperatives of such musical detail. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,927274,00.html
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| | Floridian: There's no end to it |
| | You also will find brief articles on Elektra the movie and Elektra the opera, and longer ones on Elektra Records and an asteroid called 130 Elektra. | | | There's also a brief reference (but no article yet) on a Mexican home appliance chain named Elektra. |
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http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/2004/11/08/Floridian/There_s_no_end_to_it.shtml
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| | Elektra - Richard Strauss |
| | The story dealt with is a somber one -- a Teutonic version of Sophocles&; great tragedy. | | | Some confusion exists in the popular mind as to the identity and relationship of the many Strausses who have earned fame in the musical world. | | | Clytemnestra, with the aid of her paramour Aegistheus, has procured the murder of her husband Agamemnon, and is now in fear of the discovery of her guilt by her children, Elektra, Chrysothemis, and their banished brother Orestes. |
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| | Sunday Telegraph (London, England) : High voltage Elektra; Opera.(Review) @ HighBeam Research |
| | She showed that Elektra need not be screamed and yelled, as one has heard from some interpreters, but can be sung lyrically even at high voltage if proper attention is paid to dynamics and to light and shade. | | | Bullock has the vocal power to cope with all that Strauss demands of her (the Monnaie is the ideal size for most operas, not small but not cavernously big). | | | The obsession with vengeance for her father Agamemnon's murder by her mother Klytamnestra and Klytamnestra's lover Agisth |
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http://static.elibrary.com/s/sundaytelegraphlondonengland/october132002/highvoltageelektraoperareview/index.html
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| | Video clip - Hildegard Behrens' Elektra |
| | The monologue is the opera in embryo, so to speak, containing the gist of both the story and Strauss' musical ideas while propelling the drama onward. | | | The video clip is an excerpt from Elektra's Monologue, her first "aria", which occurs in the first 15 minutes of the opera. | | | The Greek princess of myth summons the spirit of her murdered father whom she so loved, recites the gruesome details of his slaughter and, revealing her plans for revenge, vows to dance in triumph when the deed is done. |
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http://www.ffaire.com/behrens/viewvideo.html
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| | Austin Lyric Opera |
| | Cover Story: Austin Lyric Opera artistic director Richard Buckley is all about music, all the time. | | | "Let no one argue the point: The Lyric Opera has achieved a new level of artistic distinction among regional opera companies in the United States." (www.austinchronicle.com) | | | Help support the ALO by advertising in our program |
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http://www.austinlyricopera.org/whatsnew/press_elektra.asp
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| | Elektra: Richard Strauss: Vienna State Opera |
| | The music is infused with an eeriness that heightens the emotions on stage and adds to director Harry Kupfer's bold tale of tyranny and bloodshed. | | | The Vienna State Opera is flawless with Eva Marton giving an uninhibited and exultant performance in the title role. | | | World famous conductor Claudio Abbado extracts a harrowing performance from the peerless Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra during this production of Strauss's opera of revenge, torment and horror. |
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http://www.dvdgopher.co.uk/showprod.php?prodid=014381930320
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| | Pittsburgh Opera: The Season - Elektra |
| | THE STORY The searing power of Strauss' music takes center stage in this emotionally explosive Greek tragedy. | | | Renate Behle, who will make her Pittsburgh Opera debut as the doomed Elektra, Margaret Jane Wray and Reinhild Rünkel are all renowned for their specialization in this vocally challenging repertoire. | | | Elektra, enraged by her father's murder at the hands of her adulterous mother and her lover, vows to avenge his death. |
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http://www.pittsburghopera.org/season/elektra.shtml
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| | AM Archive - Elektra takes Australian opera to new heights |
| | I mean they are just - they're wonderful. | | | I mean, your character, at one stage, says, - A clink of champagne glasses - your character at one stage says, "I want a baby. | | | And the further we get into the piece the more emotionally involved in became and it's a huge back up. |
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http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s77029.htm
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| | FanFaire Celebrates Hildegard Behrens: Dramatic Soprano |
| | * Note: "She makes music worth seeing" is borrowed from the San Diego Opera motto "We make music worth seeing" originated by General Director Ian Campbell. | | | as he did of the German soprano who sang Elektra in his time. | | | Photo credits: Misako Uryu (Fidelio and Senta - Metropolitan Opera 1992-93); Ken Friedman* (Marie - San Francisco Opera, 1999); Winnie Klotz* (Elektra - Metropolitan Opera 1994); Winnie Klotz* (Brunnhilde - Metropolitan Opera 1997); Ken Howard* (Salome - Los Angeles Opera 1998); C. McKinnon (Isolde - Prinzregententheater, Munich 1999); FC ("R" - Salzburg Festival 1999). |
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http://www.hildegardbehrens.com
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| | Opera Journeys Publishing - THE On-line Opera Bookstore! |
| | 18 Milestone operas are featured and analyzed, including Story Narrative of the operas and over 300 music examples. | | | eBooks and other titles Available from Opera Journeys Publishing: | | | The Opera Journeys Mini Guides Series and Opera Classics Library Series are also available through BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com, and through retail book stores nationwide. |
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| | Strauss continued to produce operas at regular intervals into the 1930s. | | | Richard Strauss ( June 11, 1864 - September 8, 1949) was a German composer of classical music particularly noted for his tone poems and operas. | | | Strauss' next opera was Elektra, which took his use of dissonance even further. |
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http://www.informationgenius.com/encyclopedia/r/ri/richard_strauss.html
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| | Both Sides Now Album Discographies Main Page |
| | 09-29-00-------- Elektra label, Part 11 Elektra Related Labels | | | 09-21-00-------- Elektra label, Part 2 EKL-100/EKS-7100 Series (1956-71) | | | 09-21-00-------- Elektra label, Part 3 EKL-4000/EKS-74000 Series (1966-71) |
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| | Research and Documentation Online: Humanities |
| | For a live performance of a play, a ballet, an opera, or a concert, begin with the title of the work performed. | | | Then name the author or composer of the work (preceded by the word "By"), followed by as much information about the performance as is available: the director ("Dir."), choreographer ("Chor."), or conductor ("Cond."); the major performers ("Perf."); the theater, ballet, or opera company; the theater and its city; and the date of the performance. | | | Underline the title of an opera, a ballet, or a composition identified by name, but do not underline or use quotation marks around a composition identified by number or form. |
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Richard Strauss |
| | which was Strauss's lifelong preoccupation in his operas and which even forms part of the subject-matter of Capriccio. | | | They provide superb singing roles, particularly for women's vv., of which, through his marriage to a sop., he had a profound understanding. | | | The Vier letzte Lieder is a remarkable and moving summing-up of his life's work as well as a testament to all that the late-romantic style had meant to the art of mus. |
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| | ELEKTRA in Verona |
| | Instead the inherent violence of the plot is vividly conveyed by Strauss' powerfully dissonant and richly orchestrated music, and the drama is structured as a series of scenes for Elektra, with the action taking place largely in Elektra's mind. | | | Richard Strauss' Elektra is a one-act opera of spousal slaughter and matricide, yet none of the internecine struggles takes place onstage. | | | are from the first Elektra production of the Arena di Verona (January/February 2003) and |
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| | The Metropolitan Opera |
| | Read the dramatic stories of operas presented at The Met. |
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| | Elektra (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series) Burton D Fisher |
| | Burton D. Fisher-The Twilight of the Gods (Die Gotterdammerung) (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series)... | | | Burton D. Fisher-Siegfried (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series)... | | | Burton D. Fisher-Exploring Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung (Opera Journeys Mini Guide Series)... |
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