The San Francisco Chronicle reported that this was "the first invasion of those countries by an American operatic star in repertoire performances".
In this broad-ranging account Eric Hoeprich, a performer, teacher, and expert on historical clarinets, explores its development, repertoire, and performance history.
Yet, such is the scale of the work and its orchestra that it is far from standard repertoire; this performance by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales was a rare treat.
In the bare, 200-seat Other Place studio theatre in Stratford (a sorry gap in the RSC's repertoire of performance spaces these last five years, during which it has been serving merely as the foyer to the Courtyard), Pimlott's show kept the house lights up throughout, and the cast, though their outfits were visibly expensive, wore modern dress.
This conversation aims to press the critical, creative and historical understanding of casting beyond familiar zero-sum measures of good/bad, success/failure or right/wrong, so as to cultivate an appreciation of casting as a dynamic repertoire of performance techniques, practices and conventions ripe for experimentation, innovation and revision.
He wouldn't necessarily lead the Berliners into a new era of repertoire or performance-practice innovation, but he would honour and strengthen its musical values in what would be, I think, a revelatory partnership.
His ceaseless curiosity made him discover new things about repertoire: revelatory performances and recordings of Handel's music in the 1950s, Mozart's operas in the 60s, cycles of Beethoven and Brahms symphonies in later decades, even the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
The repertoire includes performances for both children and puppet adaptations of world literature for adults.
Originally the entire p'ansori performance repertoire consisted of 12 madang ("titles").
Meet Victoria Hanna and watch as she develops MAGIC SPELLS, a new performance repertoire based on Hebrew amulets in The Magnes Collection.
