Comments on: One Singer, One Act – Hold the Erwartung http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/one-singer-one-act-hold-the-erwartung/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Sun, 19 May 2013 04:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Robert Vidor http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/one-singer-one-act-hold-the-erwartung/comment-page-1/#comment-25903 Robert Vidor Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:15:00 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5686#comment-25903 Egon und Emilie (Ernst Toch)
La Voix Humaine (Poulenc)
Perséphone (Stravinsky)
Flower and Hawk (Carlisle Floyd)
Eight Songs for a Mad King (Peter Maxwell Davies)
The Italian Lesson (Lee Hoiby)
The Stronger (Hugo Weisgall)

]]> By: zeno http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/one-singer-one-act-hold-the-erwartung/comment-page-1/#comment-25897 zeno Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:18:29 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5686#comment-25897 Well, and how many American sopranos sing Erwartung one month and Annie Get Your Gun the next? At least Ms. Voigt won’t get lost in Frank Butler’s arms!

And on an American opera and music theater note, the new Washington National Opera of the Kennedy Center is said to be considering the Glimmerglass Festival model of staging one American musical theater piece each year, staged with full orchestra and chorus and without amplification.

Apparently the new de facto General Director, Michael Kaiser, is trying to look progressive (even promising to stage a good recent European avant-garde opera, although perhaps in a smaller Center theater) while still not committing the company to staging one American opera every season, as the company earlier promised Congress when it was granted its name change.

]]> By: Jerry Bowles http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/one-singer-one-act-hold-the-erwartung/comment-page-1/#comment-25895 Jerry Bowles Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:43:25 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5686#comment-25895 One of the great things about having a blog is you don’t have to make sense. I suspect all of the above apply to the talented yet larger than life Miss Voigt.

]]> By: Jackie http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/06/one-singer-one-act-hold-the-erwartung/comment-page-1/#comment-25894 Jackie Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:46:45 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=5686#comment-25894 “commodious soprano” – spacious soprano? Comfy soprano? Ample soprano? Or, googling…. handy soprano?

Maybe I’m just slow….. help?

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