Advantages: I am glad I was introduced to this one. Disadvantages: One dodgy track could have been omited.
Auf Der Maur were a band that I had not heard of before last week. It was not till I read a review by one-true-ben that they came to my attention. I was interested enough to investigate their web site and was very impressed and I downloaded the four available video's from there and have been listening to them for days while I have waited for the album to arrive.
I am writing this as I listen to it for the first time because I wanted write it now to get my first impressions. I haven't even opened it yet.
It says on the cellophane wrapper,
'Le premier album de Mellisa Auf Der Maur en collaberation avec les meilleurs musiciens du rock nord-american'
The album arrived from CDWoW via airmail from Hong Kong, actually faster than the royal mail would have delivered it from next door, but that is beside the point. I am trying to ...
Advantages: a wonderful insite into the beginning of the fall of Rome Disadvantages: none
If you are one of those people who view the Roman Empire as a unified entity defended by Imperial born and raised, Latin speaking , soldiers holding at bay the uncivilized barbarians beyond its borders, then this book is a must read. Originally published for an Italian audience but now translated into English , Alessandro Barbero's masterful book, shows the later Roman Empire for the chaotic and fluid world that is often less appealing to the modern reader than the slick and upright image of earlier times.
Based around the events that lead to the Gothic rebellion of the late fourth century and more specifically the overwhelming defeat of Valens Roman troops at Adrianople in 378, this book is a vivid account of not only the campaign but of the concept of the roman/barbarian relationship. Here it is the Goths that are under ...
Advantages: Great cast, conductor and orchestra, top notch production Disadvantages: None, to be honest
all things are relative!?
Anyway, once you get around the issue of people singing most of the time, I have to say that the vast majority of operatic plots do deal with situations that are actually very realistic in terms of human nature - love, treachery, war, ambition, envy etc - and this is definitely the case with Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" ("The Rose Kavalier".) The main aspect which has to be explained right at the start is that the character of Octavian - a male - is sung by a woman. Why? Because he is supposed to be only 17 years old and having a middle-aged tenor just wouldn't cut it dramatically. For me it is no different from the female Principal Boy in pantomimes.
Richard Strauss wrote the opera to a libretto by his long-time collaborator Hugo von Hofmannsthal and it was premiered in Dresden in 1911 ...
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