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MM: Harnoncourt will have the Concertgebouw...and I think maybe he started with the Vienna Philharmonic having them use gut strings...
VG: Good for him.
MM: And approaching a period style. I should think that would be a great—how do you say?—experience for orchestral musicians, to have them rethink their playing a bit and so forth. There's not much interest in that in the U.S.
VG: But I think it’s also...It depends on who does the approaching, I mean Harnoncourt, you can’t argue with him; he’s such an institution in Austria, and then also you were saying, that in Europe in general he’s just...he’s untouchable. He’s brilliant and...
Vivica Genaux, who is about to tour the U.S. with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi, talks to Michael Miller, Part 1 of 3
Vivica Genaux in Conversation with Michael Miller: A Podcast
The distinguished mezzo-soprano, Vivica Genaux, who just sang Arsace in Rossini’s Semiramide at the Caramoor Festival to great acclaim, very kindly agreed to an interview. We talked about a great many things, from her fondness for Caramoor (This will be …
Bellini, La Sonnambula at the Met with Dessay, Flórez, and Pertusi, dir. Zimmerman
Metropolitan Opera House
March 14, 2009
La Sonnambula
by Vincenzo Bellini
libretto Felice Romani
Amina – Natalie Dessay
Elvino – Juan Diego Flórez
Rodolfo – Michele Pertusi
Lisa – Jennifer Black
Teresa – Jane Bunnell
Alessio – Jeremy Galyon…