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**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

**A brief note to the members of this group** During the past **20 months**, this Facebook group—together with **21 other public classical-music groups** I manage—has grown organically into a network of **more than 165,000…

# **Josep Carreras — Anecdotes and Curiosities from His Life** **1. A Child Who Already Knew He Was a Singer** As a small boy in Barcelona, Carreras did not merely sing—**he performed instinctively**. Family…

# **Wolfgang Sawallisch — His Relationships with Musicians, Soloists, Singers, and Fellow Conductors** **1. A Musician’s Conductor** Wolfgang Sawallisch was universally regarded as **a conductor trusted by musicians**. Unlike many podium figures whose authority…

# **Handel - Rinaldo - Nicholas McGegan** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rinaldo-146976726?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-rinaldo-146976726?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Magic, Crusade, and the Birth of Italian Opera in London** **Rinaldo** occupies a unique and decisive place in Handel’s career: it was **his first Italian opera…

# **Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress - Kent Nagano ** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/stravinsky-rakes-146762311?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/stravinsky-rakes-146762311?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/stravinsky-rakes-146762311?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) *The Rake’s Progress* stands as **Igor Stravinsky**’s only full-length opera and the culminating masterpiece of his **neoclassical period**. Premiered in **1951** at the…

# **Igor Stravinsky: A Supreme Composer, a Limited Conductor** Few figures in twentieth-century music command admiration as universal as **Igor Stravinsky**. As a composer, he reshaped the language of modern music several times over—first…

# **Alessandro Stradella — A Life in 20 Chapters** **Chapter 1 — Identity, Dates, and Historical Context** Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella was born on **3 July 1643** in **Bologna** and died on **25 February…

# **Offenbach, La Belle Helene - Michael Plasson - Norman, Aler, Bacquier - (Toulouse 1984) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-la-146649251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-la-146649251?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Jacques Offenbach – *****La Belle Hélène*** *(1864)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *La Belle Hélène* is one of the supreme…

# **Offenbach - Pariser Leben, Rudolf Bibl ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-leben-146648897?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-leben-146648897?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Jacques Offenbach – *****Pariser Leben***** (*****La Vie parisienne*****)** *(1866)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *Pariser Leben*—originally *La Vie parisienne*—is one of the most dazzling, intelligent, and culturally…

# **OFFENBACH - Maître Péronilla - Markus Poschner** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-maitre-146648389?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-maitre-146648389?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Jacques Offenbach – *****Maître Péronilla*** *(1878)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *Maître Péronilla* is a late opera-bouffe that reveals a more **refined, ironic, and psychologically alert Offenbach**, written…

# **Offenbach - La Périchole - Alain Lombard ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-la-146648113?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-la-146648113?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **Jacques Offenbach – *****La Périchole*** *(1868, revised version 1874)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *La Périchole* is one of his most subtle, humane, and emotionally ambivalent stage…

# **Bach - Tombeau de Sa Majeste la Reine de Pologne - Ricercar Consort, Philippe Pierlot (Bach’s *****Trauerode*****, BWV 198)** [[https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-tombeau-de-146566364?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-tombeau-de-146566364?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/bach-tombeau-de-146566364?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) The work commonly referred to in French as **“Tombeau de Sa Majesté la…

# **Mahler’s Fourth Symphony** ## *Why Klemperer Offers the Most Profound Metaphysical Reading* Among the many great interpretations of **Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4**, the reading by **Otto Klemperer** stands apart not because it…

# **Plácido Domingo — Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Life on Stage** **1. He did not plan to become a tenor** Domingo was originally trained as a **baritone**. His transition to tenor was gradual…

# **Mozart: A Phobia for a Musical Instrument** One of the most curious—and revealing—anecdotes about **Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart** concerns his **aversion to the flute**, an instrument he openly disliked, and at times almost mocked.…

# **Astrid Varnay: Anecdotes and Curiosities from a Life of Extremes** ## **1. The Sieglinde Debut Nobody Thought Possible (1941)** When Varnay was called at the last moment to sing **Sieglinde** at the Metropolitan…

# **Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov** with **Irène (Eneri) Gorainoff** **Irène (Eneri) Gorainoff** was a **Russian-born pianist and composer**, a remarkable musical prodigy whose early brilliance placed her among the most striking child musicians of the…

# **M.I. Glinka during the composition of the opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila" ** **Mikhail I. Glinka died in 1857**, and the opera was composed between **1837 and 1842**, premiering in **St Petersburg on 27…

# **Mozart Beyond Music: The Art of Living as Creative Fuel ** Mozart’s life outside music was far richer and more human than the legend of the isolated prodigy suggests. He did not retreat…

# **The Silence of Vienna in Mozart’s Final Years** In the final years of Mozart’s life, something subtle yet devastating occurred in Vienna: **the city simply stopped listening**. There was no scandal, no dramatic…

# **Mozart: The Burial and the Myth of the Mass Grave** Few episodes in Mozart’s life have been more distorted by legend than the circumstances of his burial. The image of the greatest musical…