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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT´S DREAM
von Benjamin Britten in der Deutschen Oper BerlinDas ist ja eine wunderbare Oper, die Musik so fein, stimmungsvoll und vielfarbig im letzten Akt steigert sie sich zu einer Opern-Parodie... Die Inszenierung auf fast leerer Bühne sehr komödiantisch und ein schwebender Puck im Fluggeschirr, fast akrobatisch.
Was für eine tolle Aufführung.
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Heute sehe ich mir in der Deutschen Oper Berlin
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT´S DREAM
von Benjamin Britten an.Es ist das erste Mal, dass ich diese Oper, die nach Shakespeare’s Sommernachtstraum entstand, sehe.
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‘Grimes’ at the Garden: Britten’s music soars https://www.allforgardening.com/1754590/grimes-at-the-garden-brittens-music-soars/ #AllanClayton #BenjaminBritten #DeborahWarnerProduction #garden #IndividualVersusSociety #JakubHrusa #MobMentality #PeterGrimes #RoyalOperaHouse #SeaInterludes #SuffolkFishingTown
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Benjamin Britten / Purcell:
🎵 Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2KW4FxNKVGpVTgIJYolnNY🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
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Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of Auschwitz, on how ...
https://observer.co.uk/style/features/article/anita-lasker-wallfisch-the-cellist-of-auschwitz-on-how-music-saved-her-life
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Heute Abend Premiere "The Turn of the Screw"
Die gruselige Novelle von Henry James wurde bereits unter dem Titel "The Haunting of Bly Manor" für Netflix verfilmt. Benjamin Brittens Vertonung von "The Turn of the Screw" ist ein packender Psychothriller im Kammeropernformat#oper #ulm #theaterulm #premiere #benjaminbritten #blymannor #grusel
https://www.theater-ulm.de/spielplan/stuecke/the-turn-of-the-screw
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“A New Year Carol” AKA “Levy Dew” is a Welsh folk song that originates in the Pembrokeshire region of Southwest Wales. This version is set to music composed by Benjamin Britten in the early 1930s using words compiled by English poet and folklorist Walter de la Mare ( https://youtu.be/c9Yr4w4ZWiw?si=Vzrk8QAJ0iAIHKMw) It’s kind of a weird little song that has a lot of interpretations ranging from referring to some version of Mary Magdalen or maybe simply about the first dew of the year idk idk
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Also: it includes pieces set to music by Benjamin Britten (Diversions), Arvo Pärt (Fratres), Igor Stravinsky (Circus Polka), Bach, Hayden, Mozart, ...
The performers include dancers who I remember from when my dad first took me to the Ballet, when I was a young kid, but also more recent favourites, including: Lydia Bustinduy, Prince Credell, Jorge Nozal, Jianhui Wang, Roger van der Poel, Parvaneh Scharafali, Lukas Timulak.
And: Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot perform! I only every experienced them as choreographers, never as dancers. I literally cried when I saw that they're on the program. This is huge!
#Ballet #HansVanManen #LightfootLeon #Music #ClassicalMusic #IgorStravinsky #ArvoPart #BenjaminBritten #Art #NDT
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#OnThisDay in 1957, #BenjaminBritten's only full-length ballet "Prince of the Pagodas" premieres at Covent Garden, London.
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Thank you for the link, what a gift!
A remarkable piece, in a remarkable performance. Very moving.
I was moved to look for biographical background. Britten wrote the piece in 1942, in times as fragile as ours. He and Peter Pears returned from the US to England, on a Swedish cargo ship. German U-boats were active on the Atlantic, so this was no holiday trip. On a stop in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Britten had picked up a book of medieval poems, which during the voyage he turned into this extended piece.
From the medieval text: Christ's coming is "to rifle satans fold - all hell doth at his presence quake." Apt for these fraught times (his and ours).
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#OnThisDay in 1976, #BenjaminBritten, English #composer (The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Peter Grimes), died of #heartfailure at 63.
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#OnThisDay in 1913, #BenjaminBritten, English #composer (The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Peter Grimes), born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England (d. 1976).
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Baroque music can be pretty dark : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya5tzT7ujH4 #BenjaminBritten #inspirations
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3/5 #Suffolk
Here's The Red House, where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears lived out their lives. Taken last July.
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#OnThisDay in 1958, #BenjaminBritten's "Nocturne" premieres.
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3/5 #Aldeburgh
You can't leave out Maggi Hambling's Scallop on Aldeburgh Beach - a tribute to fellow local Benjamin Britten with a quotation in cut-out lettering from his opera, Peter Grimes: "I hear those voices that will not be drowned"
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#OnThisDay in 1954, #BenjaminBritten's opera "Turn of the Screw" premieres in Venice, Italy.
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 -
This libretto I chose partly for Classical Music Month and partly for an upcoming 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘴 podcast that links it to Le Guin's Omelas story!
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The Red House is a 17th century farmhouse house museum located in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, was the home of the composer Benjamin Britten, from 1957 until his death in 1976, and of his life partner & muse, Peter Pears, until the his own death in 1986. After Britten’s passing it became a heritage monument and active house museum(meaning Peter Pears lived on the grounds while the main house was an active museum) It averages over 10,000 visitors!
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And finally, Here’s Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears performing and discussing Franz Schubert’s “Die WInterreise, Op. 89” in 1968 (https://tinyurl.com/3trrac8j) at their famed Red House in Aldeburgh, England
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And here’s the second half of the song cycle “Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Opus No. 22”(https://tinyurl.com/nx7nufhk) from the same 1956 Japanese performance. Shortly before Britten’s passing, Pears declared this piece to be both his favorite of Britten’s compositions and the most meaningful to them both.
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Forgot to mention that Britten wrote “Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Opus No. 22” in the original Italian that Michelangelo used, which was a challenge for both Britten & Pears as they primarily worked in English language music
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Next we have the first half of the 1940 Song Cycle “Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Opus No. 22” (https://tinyurl.com/2stwzksn), based on actual poetry written by legendary artist Michelangelo. This performance is from their 1956 trip to Japan
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Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears met in 1937 and quickly became friends, creative collaborators and lovers. Their partnership lasted for 40yrs (Britten passed in 1976) Pears was Britten’s muse and inspired him to center his operatic & choral work around the tenor voice/range.- including five song cycles. Due to the criminalization of Homosexuality at the time, they lived publicly closeted lives but were as close to “married” as possible in private
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Benjamin Britten (November 22, 1913-December 4, 1976)🇬🇧 was a Gay, English composer, conductor and pianist who is known for being of the most well renowned classical English composers of the 20th century. Most of his work was in choral and vocal music.
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First we have this 1964 recital (https://tinyurl.com/4fkxzzwe) featuring Peter Pears singing folk songs by various English composers with piano accompaniment by Benjamin Britten, whose own compositions and arrangements make up most of the program.
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Britten & Shostakovich: Music based on texts by Michelangelo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6tWU6nJXdIM&si=YZZZtAmI_-0z0PpT
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