Tag Archives: opera
Transferrable skills: from music to ?
Four years ago, Anne Ku faced the daunting task of getting 40 musicians to play her music. She learned that those skills are transferrable. Continue reading
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What will Dame Kiri sing on Maui?
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa will sing a variety of arias, art songs, and folk songs to please a diversified audience in Maui in her first performance in the Hawaiian islands. Anne Ku compares music to food and guesses the programme selection. Continue reading
Dame Kiri to sing in Maui on 1st October 2011
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa comes to Maui on Saturday 1st October 2011 to give a recital with pianist Terence Dennis at the Castle Theater in Kahului. Continue reading
Music of Henk Alkema
Henk Alkema was a prolific composer. Not all his music are catalogued on his website though you can hear many mp3 recordings. Continue reading
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Outdoor opera for guitar and soprano
Soprano and her guitarist accompanist play one more set for an eager listener in Utrecht — the secret garden near the Dome Tower. Continue reading
Buskin’ Bekkers with opera singer Reiche
Robert Bekkers arranges music from the great opera arias for classical guitar to accompany Dutch soprano Mirella Reiche for outdoor performance in central Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is preparation for his upcoming solo guitar concert in the Hague. Continue reading
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Pure acoustics unamplified
We get so used to amplified background music that we forget what pure, unamplified foreground music sounds like. Continue reading
A one-off opera production in Maui: Elixir of Love
Producing an opera is one of the most expensive projects in the classical music world. One-off productions do not benefit from economy of scale. Concert performance, doubling up, and piggy-backing a gala dinner after an opera are ways to reduce cost and increase attendance. Maui Pops Orchestra and Olinda Chorale collaborated with San Francisco Pocket Opera to produce Donizetti’s Elixir of Love on Maui on 13 March 2011. Continue reading
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No pay, no fee
No pay, no fee is advertised by some opera companies in audition announcements. The classical music industry works in strange ways —the more you love it, the less you’ll get paid for it. Continue reading
