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Hall� Orchestra Podcast: Gotterdammerung
Edward Seckerson talks to the Hall� Orchestra's Music Director Sir Mark Elder and Professor John Deathridge about the origins of Wagner's Ring and its thrilling culmination "The Twilight of the Gods".
Angela Gheorghiu: 'Difficult? No, I seek perfection'
Melba, Callas, Norman – Angela Gheorghiu, the operatic soprano of the age, can out-diva them all. But behind the no-shows and spats is a singer passionate about her art, discovers Jessica Duchen
Verdi Requiem, Royal Opera House, London (Rated 4/ 5 )
Who knows if it really makes a difference or not when Verdi's Requiem is performed in the opera house but Antonio Pappano's vivid performance for the Royal Opera certainly had the whiff of theatricality about it. Churchy it was not – though you might imagine that the Royal Opera Chorus had been advised that their murmured repetitions of the words Requiem aeternam at the outset must sound almost indivisible from the mournful cello descent, as if emanating from deep inside some dark Italian cathedral.
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