Tag: Rossini
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PROGRAM NOTES: TARA ERRAUGHT
Johannes Brahms: Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs), Op. 103 More than half of Brahms’ total output was vocal, including over two hundred art songs and an additional hundred folksong arrangements. Most of them are serious, introspective, resigned or elegiac in mood. Ardent, impulsive effusions are rare, and the musical pictorialism so dear to Schubert is likewise…
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AN INTERVIEW WITH RODION POGOSSOV
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule. Where are you today? I’m in Hamburg right now, singing my first Verdi role in the opera “Don Carlos” at the Hamburgische Staatsoper. When did you realize you wanted a career in music? I was inspired at the age of 17 by my teacher and…
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PROGRAM NOTES: RODION POGOSSOV
Alessandro Stradella: “Pietà, Signore” Orphaned at the age of eleven, Alessandro Stradella went on to lead one of the most colourful lives of any composer who ever lived. He was involved in Mafiaesque schemes, had a reputation for womanizing, got himself wounded by pursuing avengers, and was eventually murdered. In between all this he found…