#Dominick Argento

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happy sleepover saturday sasha!! ive been having a ball because my hockey team is playing well (third in the league baybee!!!) and my favorite player is on a successful revenge tour (natural hat trick (3 goals in the same period) against his old team mwah). i love reading your opera posts, tell me about the opera show(s) you saw 🥺👉👈? (if im reading your posts correctly there were two but i am unfamiliar with opera formats so dont know if they were different or a single 2 part thing) (what were your favorite parts from each? were there any specific performers you liked?) i hope youre having a nice weekend & you get to see sooo many more operas 💜❤💖💌✨

happy sleepover saturday! ah yeah last night i went to see my school's operas, instead of being one big show it was a double bill of two shorter shows in english (one one-act and one two-act, with an intermission between the two). the first one was the boor by dominick argento. this one was ostensibly a comedy but i didn't find it particularly funny tbh, and the music was much more through-composed and thoroughly 20st century than are my taste preferences. but the cast was really good -- the guy who played the boor had a lot of acting range, and the servant is a friend from rep orchestra who also did a really nice job. the second show was the medium by gian carlo menotti. this one is kind of like if an episode of the twilight zone was a fucked up little music drama and i enjoyed it more than i expected, especially since this one ends decidedly less cheerfully than the boor! i found the music more enjoyable, reminded me in a lot of parts of dave malloy's writing style -- a bit "out there," but still very much followable and tuneful. again, great cast, esp the girl who played monica. i'm always impressed by the talent of my classmates when i go see school opera productions tbh

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Recension: ”Virginia Woolf” på Folkoperan

Opera “Virginia Woolf” Musik: Nino Rota, Dominick Argento, “From the diary of Virginia Woolf”, bearbetning B Tommy Andersson Regi: Elisabeth LjungarScenografi och kostym: Maria AntmanLjussättning: Jesper Cederholm Medverkande: Emma Sventelius, Andrea Björkholm, Béla Beer, Robert Ek, Pontus Carron Scen: Piteå kammaropera, gästspel på Folkoperan i Stockholm Visa mer Visa mindre Virginia Woolfs…

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actually i think my joker moment is that dominick argento was GOING to compose a song cycle of sappho excerpts for jessye norman but she CANCELLED!!!!! RARGHHHHHHHHHH IM CRYING WHAT COULDVE BEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ah well at least there's the virginia woolf cycle

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Music and movie news for Virginia Woolf fans

Here is a roundup of music and movie news of interest to followers of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group.

Pianist Lana Bode has just released her debut album “I and Silence: Women’s Voices inAmerican Song” with mezzo-soprano Marta Fontanals-Simmons. The album includes a performance of Dominick Argento’s song-cycle “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf,” which some may remember them performing at…

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Sarah Connolly livestream from Wigmore Hall

YES! Livestream from Wigmore Hall on March 15: “With regular pianist partner Julius Drake, Dame Sarah Connolly offers Dominick Argento’s cycle from Woolf’s posthumously published A Writer’s Diary, which won the composer the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and Schumann’s moving late settings of texts attributed to Mary Stuart.”

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Obra completa com legenda em português: link.

Escrita entre 1974 e 1976 e estreada em 1977. Composição do norte-americano Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), com libreto do próprio compositor adaptado da peça “Os Males do Tabaco” ("On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco") do dramaturgo russo Anton Tchekhov (1860- 1904).

Enredo Monólogo de um homem que vai expondo o ridículo e a mediocridade de seu cotidiano ao longo de uma conferência. Argento desloca a ação, da Rússia, para Maryland (nordeste dos EUA), no final do século XIX. E o tema da palestra, em vez do tabagismo, passam a ser os pássaros. O palestrante se encontra em uma situação de sofrimento, de opressão, questionamento.

“Essa é a minha única obra para os palcos que considero completa e absolutamente satisfatória: não há uma palavra ou nota nela que eu gostaria de mudar. Eu acho que isso é devido à correspondência e compatibilidade de ação, texto e música que vejo nela e que, por seu turno, pode se dever a eu agir como compositor e libretista pela primeira vez”. -  Argento

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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento dead at 91

NEW YORK (AP) — Dominick Argento, the 1975 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music, had died. He was 91. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento dead at 91

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aaahhh ty Jo!!! this was so fun! and honestly i think it's the first time one of these has properly shuffled my music and shown just how eclectic it is lol

Rules: put your entire music playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs that play  

1. Timshel - Mumford & Sons

2. True Trans Soul Rebel - Against Me!

3. Say It First - Sam Smith

4. Holocene - Ben Iver

5. Timeless - Jon Bellion

6. Gloria - Dominick Argento (from The Masque of Angels) as sung by the Messiah College Concert Choir

7. Little Miss Why So - The Amazing Devil

8. Amerika - Rammstein

9. A Little Broken - Storm Greenwood

10. Holy Water - Tow'rs

(i honestly can't believe hozier didn't show up in there at all, that's wild)

i'm gonna tag @catladymarie and @ohpeachpit and you!!! if ur reading this i wanna know what's in your music library!!

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Vox Satanae - Episode 478 - Week of June 29, 2020

Vox Satanae – Episode 478 – Week of June 29, 2020

Vox Satanae – Episode 478 – 142 Minutes – Week of June 29, 2020

This week we hear works by William Grant Still, John Knowles Paine, John Philip Sousa, Roy Harris, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Don Gillis, Dominick Argento, and Michael Daugherty.

Stream Vox Satanae Episode 478.

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Vox Satanae - Episode #355

Vox Satanae – Episode #355

Vox Satanae – Episode 355 – 151 Minutes – Week of 14 August 2017

This week we hear works by Francesco Canova da Milano, Orlande de Lassus, Samuel Scheidt, Vincent Lübeck, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Hector Berlioz, Ferruccio Busoni, and Dominick Argento with performances by Sandro Volta, The Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly, Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier, Helmut Walcha, Gerald Hambitzer, Concerto…

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André Previn, Dominick Argento, Stan Applebaum, importantes compositores, directores y arreglistas que nos dejan. El trabajo de Applebaum ha quedado inmortalizado en más de una veintena de éxitos, algunos de ellos nº1, de Coasters, Drifters (“Save the Last Dance for Me”), Neil Sedaka, Brook Benton y, las más famosas de todas, “Stand By Me” y “Spanish Harlem” de Ben E. King. Stan nunca quiso ser el centro de atención, y se contentó con saber que su creatividad y pasión musicales ayudaban a brillar a los demás.

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Composer Dominick Argento dead at 91: I respect poetry, lyrics and opera. He even adapted literary works like Henry James' The Aspern Papers

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Alcina Handel

French soprano Patricia Petibon sings one of the biggest handelian arias. Her voice in this recording is just amazing, and she adds a lot of dramatism. Handel’s Alcina Handel’s Alcina ● by Chris Lynch This February, Indiana University Opera will present Handel’s fantasy opera Alcina in a new production designed by Robert Perdziola, directed by Chas Rader-Shieber, and conducted by Arthur Fagen. On musical grounds, this is a more-than-competent reading of Handel's classic opera, with some fine singing throughout. Naglestad is a lovely Alcina, and other principles are strong (notable standout is Mahnke's Oberto). Conductor Hacker coaxes a good reading out of the Stuttgart forces. Handel: Alcina / Curtis, DiDonato, Rensburg, Beaumont Release Date: Label: Archiv Produktion (Dg) Catalog #: 4777374 Spars Code: n/a Composer: George Frideric Handel Performer: Kobie van Rensburg, Vito Priante, Joyce DiDonato, Sonia Prina.

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Quite possibly Handel's most magnificent opera, Alcina is filled with extraordinary musical riches & a lot of magnificent magic. Two exceptional women lie at the heart of the story: Alcina is a potent sorceress, which Bradamante counters with her self-confidence and determination on her quest to rescue her lover Ruggiero from Alcina's spells. If she succeeds, they will escape and no doubt live happily ever after. However, if not, Ruggiero will be transformed into the newest trophy in Alcina's enormous gallery of former lovers. Which will it be? Can he resist her magic?

Now in his fourth season as music director of Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers, Clinton Smith also maintains a position on the music staff of Santa Fe Opera, where he most recently served as cover conductor for Leonard Slatkin on a production of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa. During the 2017–2018 season, he will make three company debuts, conducting Il barbieri de Siviglia at Dayton Opera, Le nozze di Figaro at Tacoma Opera and Alcina at Fargo-Moorhead Opera. He will also return to Pacific Northwest Opera to conduct Turandot, and to Atlanta Opera to prepare The Seven Deadly Sins. Clinton’s recent conducting credits include The Mikado for Kentucky Opera, Hansel und Gretel and Norma for Pacfic Northwest Opera, Il barbieri di Sivigliafor the University of Michigan Opera Theater, and La finta giardiniera for Baldwin Wallace University.

He has served on the music staff of Santa Fe Opera, Juilliard Opera, Minnesota Opera, Atltanta Opera, Portland Opera, Kentucky Opera and Ash Lawn Opera. Other recent posts include four seasons as artistic director and principal conductor of the St. Cloud Symphony, assistant conductor and chorus master for San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program, assistant conductor for Glimmerglass Opera’s productions of Tolomeo and The Tender Land, music director of Western Ontario University’s Canadian Operatic Arts Academy, and guest coach at the National University of Taiwan.

For four seasons, Minnesota Opera engaged Clinton as cover conductor and chorus master, where he led mainstage performances of La traviata and Madama Butterfly and covered the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Opera Orchestra in over 20 productions. During 2011, Clinton conducted a workshop and prepared the world premiere of Kevin Puts’ opera Silent Night, which subsequently won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music. For Minnesota Opera’s New Works Initiative, and as an avid fan of new music, Clinton prepared workshops of Douglas J. Cuomo’s Doubt, Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis and the North American premiere of Jonathan Dove’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, as well as Dominick Argento’s Casanova’s Homecoming and Bernard Herrmann’s Wuthering Heights.

Patrick Hansen continues his unique career throughout North American as an operatic stage director, conductor, and vocal coach. His stagings have garnered praise in both Canada and the United States. Opera Canada wrote, ' Patrick Hansen captured the opera's bohemian vitality - the city of Paris itself was the characterful backdrop to the action. When he ran out of space in Act II, the crowd simply spilled down into the auditorium . . the comic business was well handled . . . The acting, indeed, was a strong point throughout.'

Mr. Hansen has been on the musical staffs of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Pittsburgh Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Memphis, Des Moines Metro Opera, Ash Lawn Opera, The Juilliard Opera Center, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, and Glimmerglass Opera as well as being the Director of Artistic Administration for Florida Grand Opera during the opening of the Miami Arts Centre.

At ease in opera and musical theatre, his stage directing credits encompass the entire spectrum of repertoire now being presented in opera companies; Alcina, Orfeo ed Eudridice, Cosi fan tutte, Die Zauberflute, L'elisier d'amore, La traviata, Dialogue des Carmelites, Albert Herring, Hansel and Gretel, La Boheme as well as the musicals Camelot and Trouble in Tahiti.

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Currently the director of Opera McGill in Montreal at McGill University, Mr. Hansen is the former director of the Young American Artist Program at Glimmerglass Opera, and has presented masterclasses and coachings with the Young Artists of Virginia Opera and for many years served as the stage director at the Kennedy Center with the Washington Chorus' Essential Verdi. Mr. Hansen returns to Fargo-Moorhead after successful stagings of Fille du Regiment, Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi, and The Magic Flute in previous seasons.

Miriam Khalil is an acclaimed Lebanese-Canadian soprano specializing in opera and concert performance. She has been lauded as a 'skilled, versatile artist' with a “signature warm lyrical voice” by Musical Toronto and described as 'dark, dangerous and alluring” by Opera Going Toronto. Miriam is a graduate of the prestigious Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio, the Steans Institute for Young Artists (Ravinia) and the Britten-Bears Young Artist Programme in England. While in her last year of the COC Ensemble Studio, she advanced to the semi-finals of the Metropolitan Opera Council auditions and represented the Great Lakes Region on the Met stage, during which she was featured in the documentary film The Audition.

Miriam has appeared on numerous opera stages across Canada and Europe, including a stint at the renowned Glyndebourne Festival Opera in the United Kingdom. Notable roles include Mimi in La bohème (Minnesota Opera, Opera Hamilton & Against the Grain Theatre); Musetta in La bohème (Edmonton Opera); Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni (Opera Tampa & Against the Grain Theatre/The Banff Centre/Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival); Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande (Against the Grain Theatre); the Governess in The Turn of the Screw (Against the Grain Theatre); Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne Festival Opera, U.K.); Almirena in Rinaldo (Glyndebourne Festival Opera, U.K.); and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro (Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera Lyra Ottawa & Against the Grain Theatre).

Holly Flack is a coloratura soprano praised for “wielding an impressive range, effortlessly reaching higher than high notes” with her unique vocal extension beyond an octave above high C.

Ms. Flack has performed with the Bel Canto Opera Festival, Astoria Opera Festival, and Operafestival di Roma. She made her debut at the Trentino Music Festival in Mezzano, Italy singing the role of the Vixen in Leos Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen. She was most recently seen on the FM Opera stage last season as the Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute.

Additional roles include Serpetta (La Finta Giardiniera), Frasquita (Carmen), Despina (Cosi fan Tutte), and Peep-Bo in The Mikado. In 2015, Holly was part of the Gate City Bank Young Artist program where she covered the role of Marie in Daughter of the Regiment with FM Opera.

Originally from Portland, Oregon, Ms. Flack holds a Bachelors degree in Vocal Performance from St. Olaf College, and a Masters degree in Vocal Performance from The University of Kentucky, where she studied with soprano Cynthia Lawrence.

Lyric mezzo-soprano Holly Janz is a versatile singing actress with a voice that is evenly blended with clarity, richness and warmth. She has performed with opera companies across the country including Skylark Opera, Fargo-Moorhead Opera, Wichita Grand Opera, and Union Avenue Opera Theatre (St. Louis). Past credits comprise a variety of characters from the trouser roles of Cherubino, Hansel and Prince Orlofsky, to the ingénue roles of Nancy (Albert Herring) and Valencienne (The Merry Widow), to the more dramatic roles of Carmen and The Secretary (The Consul).

In addition to her operatic stage credits, Ms. Janz is a compelling concert artist in both oratorio and recital. Orchestral credits include the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Indianapolis Philharmonic Orchestra, the Greater Grand Forks Symphony, the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony as well as the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Janz, a native of Marshfield, WI, is an alumna of the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point (BM). She has also received degrees from the University of Colorado (MM) and the University of Kansas (DMA, with honors), and is an associate professor of voice at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.

Called “winningly wily and dauntless” by Boston Classical Review, American Mezzo-soprano, Kate Jackman, is multifaceted musician and actress who excels in a variety of musical expression. As a2017 Gate City Bank Young Artist, Kate was seen as the Waitress in “Speed Dating Tonight!” as well as the Sergeant of Police in FM Opera’s recent production of “The Pirates of Penzance”. She also sang the role of Giovanna this summer in Ash Lawn Opera’s production of “Rigoletto”. Other roles that Kate has performed include the lead role in Oliver Knussen’s “Higglety Pigglety Pop” at the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, Hansel in “Hansel and Gretel”, the title role in “Carmen”, Dorabella in “Cosi fan tutte”, Bloody Mary in “South Pacific”, and Dinah in Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti”.

An avid performer of new works, Kate has premiered roles in “Piecing It Apart” by Paul Matthews and “Lux et Tenebrae” by Douglas Buchanan for The Figaro Project’s Contemporary Opera Trio. She also premiered the role of Megan 2 in Robert Patterson’s “The Whole Truth” with Urban Arias, and Patricia Hutton in Joshua Bornfield’s“Camelot Requiem”, in which she “expressed emotional intensity with the weight of her soothing mezzo-soprano voice” (Maureen L. Mitchell, Opera Today)

Ms. Jackman holds a Master of Music Degree from the Peabody Institute and a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of North Texas.

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Tenor Jianghai Ho has appeared most recently as tenor soloist in the DePaul Symphonic Choir’s presentation of Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Rinuccio in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Nerone in Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea, Orfeo in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Abraham Kaplan in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene, and Dr. Blind in Johann Strauss Jr’s Die Fledermaus with DePaul Opera Theater. He has also performed with the Duke Vespers Ensemble in Dietrich Buxtehude’s rarely-performed Membra Jesu Nostri at the Boston Early Music Festival, as well as the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

Born in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, Jianghai first discovered his passion for opera under the tutelage of Professor Susan Dunn at Duke University, where he graduated with a B.S. in music and biology. He graduated in vocal performance from DePaul University, where he studied with David Alt and Michael Sylvester.

Mark Billy is a lyric baritone and Native American (Choctaw tribe) from Finley, Oklahoma. Mark’s undergraduate studies in voice at the University of Oklahoma were under the mentorship of baritone Richard Anderson. Mark has also had additional study with the legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.

Mark made his operatic debut as IlCommendatore in 2012 with OU Opera Theatre's production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”. The following season he appeared as Thoas in Gluck's “Iphigénieen Tauride”. In 2014 Mark appeared as Simon in OU’s choreographed production of Haydn’s oratorio “Die Jahreszeiten” and in 2016 Mark was featured as Moralès in “Carmen” with Indiana University.His graduate studies at Indiana were with soprano Carol Vaness.

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Mark most recently concluded a traveling production at OU opera theatre of John Davies mash-up children’s opera: “The Billy Goats Gruff” where he played the role of Osmin, the bully billy goat; this brought opera to Norman, OK area schools and carried the important message against bullying. In the Spring of 2017 Mark placed first in the Oklahoma NATS competition graduate level division. This past summer Mark sang Melisso in Handel’s “Alcina” as well as covering the role of Marcello in “La bohème” for the Red River Lyric Opera Festival. As a 2018 Gate City Bank Young Artist with the Fargo Moorhead Opera Mark will be reprising the role of Melisso in Handel’s “Alcina”as well as the role of the bartender in Michael Ching’s comic one act opera “Speed Dating Tonight!”

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Livestream from Wigmore Hall today! After warming up with a set of Zemlinsky lieder, Dame Sarah Connolly sings Dominick Argento’s “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf” and Robert Schumann’s “Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart” with readings by Emily Berrington. With Julius Drake on the piano. Full program details here.

The recital starts at 7:30 p.m. in London, which makes it 8:30 p.m. in the Central European time zone, 3:30 p.m. in the eastern U.S., and 12:30 p.m. Pacific time.

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Opera Review: ‘Brenda Rae, soprano, in Recital’ at Vocal Arts DC

Coloratura soprano Brenda Rae and pianist Jonathan Ware graced the Terrace Theatre Sunday afternoon with a program featuring songs of Romantic era masters Richard Strauss, Fanny Mendelssohn, and Franz Liszt, as well as Modern era composer Dominick Argento, and the world premiere of a song cycle by contemporary American composer, Lowell Liebermann.   …providing Rae […] See original article at: https://mdtheatreguide.com/2019/09/opera-review-brenda-rae-soprano-in-recital-at-vocal-arts-dc/

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The Elegant Musical Vessels of Dominick Argento https://ift.tt/2ElM2me