This is the third in a series of guest commentaries by author and historian Arthur Bloomfield, whose new e-book on the styles of the great oldtime opera and symphony conductors is posted at www.morethanthenotes.com. At least one prominent historian of the Metropolitan Opera – and perhaps a few copycats too – dismissed the diminutive and [...]
Entries from August 2010
Arthur Bloomfield’s Guest Commentary on mid-20th Century Conductors, Part 3: Gennaro Papi
August 13th, 2010
Tags: Blazing Batons with Arthur Bloomfield
Revisiting Conductor Antony Walker at Santa Fe Opera’s “Ranch”
August 10th, 2010
William’s note: I first interviewed Conductor Antony Walker at the new offices of the Pittsburgh Opera (in the historic building that was originally part of the factory of the Westinghouse Brake Company. (See: Interviewing Conductor Antony Walker on Undervalued Masterpieces – and His Unexpected Celebrity.) This second interview took place at the Santa Fe Opera [...]
Tags: 2008-2012 William's Interviews
Tristan Tried and True: Clifton Forbis Sells Seattle Opera’s New “Tristan und Isolde” – July 31, 2010
August 3rd, 2010
Nashville is the official capital of the State of Tennessee and the world’s unofficial capital of American country music, but it is also the birthplace and home town of Wagnerian heldentenor Clifton Forbis. In yet another extraordinary example of what might properly be described as a Golden Age of American opera singing, Forbis is inhabiting the [...]