Wednesday, May 13, 2015

sundry items

By now you've probably all read Alice Coote's piece in the Guardian about gender fluidity on and off the opera stage, but here it is in case you haven't. All in conjunction with this.

There's a new kid on the opera streaming block, free, ungeoblocked, and with some interesting stuff coming down the pike.


Meanwhile, Digital Theatre -- not free but damn cheap -- has added Nicholas Hytner's Così and Michael Grandage's Figaro to the Glyndebourne section of their burgeoning opera video library.


Lastly, Kerry Candaele's documentary Following the Ninth, about Beethoven's 9th Symphony in times of social upheaval, is up for streaming on Amazon



4 comments:

  1. ha, the piece that got me into classical music! (and blogspot needs a "like" button! there's loooots of cool things on this post!! :-) )

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    1. "All killer, no filler!" as they used to say in the record business :)

      I kind of like the lack of "like" on blogspot, though. It means you all say actual things, and the things you all say are so very interesting. I would hate to give that up for a little clickable icon, even if it is a thumbs up.

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    2. but it's 80% of my vocabulaire!! :p
      i also saw that Alice Coote's thingie is 1 day after i left.. i should listen more to her though, coz for some reason i thought that original alcina was too rough for my innocent mind :p . actually, i did think it was a bit too much, i always like more "suggestive" via singing + subtle body gestures, but i guess we should explore all flavors.

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    3. They'll redo it at Proms in September, so we may at least get to hear it.

      No doubt many a young innocent has descended into iniquity after seeing that Alcina. But, y'know, corrupting youth is what opera is for.

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