Avec Anne Blanchard, directrice artistique du festival international d opéra baroque et romantique de Beaune francemusique.fr - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from francemusique.fr Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Today (May 4) in live streaming: Broadway unites to celebrate the life and legacy of Rebecca Luker, Ian Manuel comes to Joe's Pub, Next Year, Some Year returns, Renée Fleming stars in Handel's Rodelinda, and more!
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Jonathan Plowright. The British pianist opens this concert with Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s D minor
Chaconne which was performed by Busoni himself at the opening of the Hall almost 120 years ago. This is followed by the six pieces that make up Liszt’s
Consolations S172. The concert closes with Grieg’s
Holberg Suite Op. 40, originally written for piano before Grieg adapted it for string orchestra. Register, view here and on demand for 30 days. LIVE
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci. Conductor: Marco Armiliato, director: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. With Eva-Maria Westbroek, Brian Jagde, Ambrogio Maestri, Zoryana Kushpler, and Isabel Signoret; Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak, Ambrogio Maestri, Andrea Giovannini, and Sergey Kaydalov. Production from November 2020. Register for free and view here.
When I started Uni way back in the 1990s, I’d never heard of a countertenor. Then I met my friend Dave. He’s easily the hairiest person I’ve ever encountered. A head of curly hair and a beard to shame Ned Kelly. And a voice the likes of which I’d never heard before.
I remember the first time I heard Dave sing in a concert his high, clear, piercing voice echoing around the stone hall in the main Uni building. I was captivated, amazed, astounded you name it.
High or low?
Dave is a countertenor and is extremely skilled at using his head voice. Whatever gender you are, you’ll notice a break in your voice about halfway through its range. Arguably, it’s more noticeable if you have a male voice. But it’s there for female voices too. It s the conjunction of the chest or ‘modal’ voice, the lower bit of our voice where we usually do our speaking, and the higher, head voice, sometimes called ‘falsetto’.
Kölner Counter-Tenor-Star zum Leben ohne Auftritte: „Zwischen Ohnmacht und Wut ksta.de - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ksta.de Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.