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# **Sviatoslav Richter and Conductors: When Silence Led the Orchestra** Authority, Conflict, Trust, and Moral Equality** Sviatoslav Richter’s relationships with conductors were never routine collaborations. For him, the conductor was **not a superior nor…

# **Leoncavallo: Pagliacci - World Premiere** It premiered on May 21, 1892, at the [Teatro dal Verme](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_dal_Verme) in [Milan](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil%C3%A1n) , conducted by [Arturo Toscanini](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini) with Adelina Stehle as Nedda, Fiorello Giraud as Canio, [Victor…

# **Handel - Serse - The Hannover Band - Nicholas McGegan ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-serse-147141781?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/handel-serse-147141781?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## **George Frideric Handel – *****Serse***** (HWV 40): Irony, Intimacy, and the Twilight of Italian Opera (1737–1738)** **1. A Late Opera…

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…

Year 1895. Letter by Richard Strauss (1864-1949) to Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) ‘Lieber Freund’. Explaining that he cannot help him over Guntram, since Munich has behaved so badly over the opera, that he feels he…