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DSCH; Camerata RCO – review

“Dark is bright, dark is bright directed.” Who wouldn’t want to accept this line as their own? Shakespeare’s Sonnet 43, full of shadows, sleep, and dreams, bears a resemblance to his lines. A Midsummer Night’s Dreamhuman mystery speaks more powerfully than sweet fairy magic. When Benjamin Britten turned the play into an opera for the… Read More »

Yuri Temirkanov’s obituary

As president of two of Russia’s leading musical institutions, the Kirov (later Mariinsky) Opera and Ballet Theater (1976-88) and the Leningrad (later St. Petersburg) Philharmonic Orchestra, he has served for over thirty years since 1970. He served as chief chef for a while. Yuri Temirkanov, who died in 1988 at the age of 84, was… Read More »