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𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐈𝐀 𝐉𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐙𝐀 (𝟏𝟖𝟖𝟕–𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐) 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐃𝐈𝐕𝐀 𝐎𝐅 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐒𝐎𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐎 𝐖𝐇𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐀, 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐘𝐎𝐑𝐊, 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐔𝐂𝐂𝐈𝐍𝐈 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 — 𝐀 𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐀 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐀 𝐕𝐎𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃…

# **Verdi - The Great Operas - Box Set 35CDs ** **CD 1-2** **Verdi: Nabucco** Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Renata Scotto (soprano), Elena Obraztsova (mezzo-soprano), Veriano Luchetti (tenor), Matteo Manuguerra (baritone), Anne Edwards (soprano), Robert…

# **More Than a Servant: Bach and Artistic Dignity** Throughout his career—most acutely in **Leipzig**—**Johann Sebastian Bach** resented being treated as a **mere employee** rather than recognized as an **artist of intellectual authority**. This…

# **Handel - Solomon - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-solomon-147140986?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-solomon-147140986?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) By the late **1740s**, Handel was at the **absolute height of his artistic authority** in London. Having definitively abandoned Italian opera, he had reshaped English…

# **Offenbach - Orphée aux Enfers - Willy Mattes ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-orphee-146648699?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/offenbach-orphee-146648699?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **Jacques Offenbach – *****Orphée aux Enfers*** *(Orpheus in the Underworld, 1858; revised 1874)* **Jacques Offenbach**’s *Orphée aux Enfers* is not only the…

# **Why Mahler’s Seventh Symphony conducted by Klemperer is so special—and so controversial** **Mahler "Symphony No 7" Otto Klemperer ** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMdEGIdZPU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMdEGIdZPU) **Gustav Mahler’s** **Seventh Symphony** has always occupied a problematic, ambiguous, and deeply unsettling…

# **Schubertian melody: emotion made into time ** The **single defining characteristic that places Franz Schubert above any other composer in that specific realm** is **his uniquely natural ability to transform inner emotional experience…

# **KATHLEEN BATTLE vs. JESSYE NORMAN** Two Voices, Two Worlds, One of the Greatest Rivalries in Modern Opera** In the history of opera, rivalries often emerge from vocal similarity, competition for the same roles,…

# **Franz Lehár - Der Graf von Luxemburg - Willy Mattes ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/franz-lehar-der-144110131?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/franz-lehar-der-144110131?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link)

Year 1880. Card received by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) from Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Unsigned card, with two lines of music: a fragment of the trio in the march in Franz von Suppe (1819-1895)‘s Faninitza, and…