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December 6 Puccini: LA BOHÈME December 13 Giordano: ANDREA CHÉNIER December 20 at 12:00 p.m. Mozart: THE MAGIC FLUTE – Abridged, English December 27 HANDEL AT THE MET January 10 Bellini: I PURITANI January 17 Bizet: CARMEN March 14 Puccini: MADAMA BUTTERFLY March 28 Verdi: LA TRAVIATA April 11 Mozart: DON GIOVANNI May 2 Tchaikovsky: EUGENE ONEGIN May 9 Donizetti: LA FILLE DU RÉGIMENT May 23 Puccini: TURANDOT

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Serenate ex C, also called "Ganz kleine Nachtmusik" (A Very Little Night Music) on the steps of the Leipzig Opera. The spectacular rediscovery of a previously unknown Mozart composition attracted hundreds of interested listeners to the Leipzig Opera, where the work was previously ceremoniously presented to the international press. The trio consisting of Vincent Geer, David Geer and Elisabeth Zimmermann also play top positions in the youth symphony orchestra of the Leipzig School of Music "Johann Sebastian Bach". W.A. Mozart - Serenate ex C - Ganz kleine Nachtmusik KV648 (official release) | 11:26JSO Leipzig | 3.81K...

Yep. Official 'TEASER' at link............. Amadeus, the 1985 Milos Forman- directed masterpiece, is being remade. They replaced the inimitable Tom Hulce with a half-Japanese British citizen name Will Sharpe, because that totally makes sense for the Austrian Mozart? Meanwhile, F. Murray Abraham's Salieri is being replicated by that robot guy in the Avengers movies. I'm sure this will turn out great! Here's just a few of the reactions: Just ... why???

My husband was playing loud, raucous Rock Music tonight, and I asked him to play something peaceful. He came up with this (I especially liked the tribute -?- to American Western Movies): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXuUPcfloQsThe MozART group says this in their 'about' blurb on YouTube: "We exist despite the sober formality of great concert halls, despite the boredom of classical musicians' life, despite fanatic lovers of classical music, despite fans of rock, rap or pop who are afraid of classical music. We treat our Muse with a humorous irony and we're sure, she will have nothing against it!" -MozART group

For IronJack. Mozart's Symphony 33 in A, KV319 - 3, Menuetto. John Elliot Gardner. Roughly chronological. Consider it a small bite of art history. A child prodigy, Millais was sent to art school at the age of 9 and entered Academic training at 11. At that young age, he was already winning awards for his figures and his composition. His portraiture includes a wide range of political, religious and noble figures. He was made a Baronet for his work.

5 music videos for bird lovers or for cats. Mostly to the music of Mozart and Chopin.

Mozart: Great mass in C minor, KV 427 __ Kyrie: • Kyrie: chorus and soprano Gloria: • Gloria in excelsis Deo: chorus • Laudamus te: soprano • Gratias agimus tibi; chorus • Domine Deus: sopranos I and II • Qui tollis: double choir • Quoniam tu solus: sopranos I and II • Jesu Christe: chorus • Cum Sancto Spiritu: chorus Credo: • Credo in unum Deum: chorus • Et incarnatus est: soprano I Sanctus: • Sanctus: double choir • Benedictus qui venit: quartet and double chorus __ • Miah Persson: soprano • Ann Hallenberg: alto • Helge Rønning: tenor •...

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Murray Perahia KBE (born April 19, 1947) is an American concert pianist and conductor. (Murray Perahia, Wikipedia) 00:00 - Allegro 05:23 - Andante 10:44 - Allegro

Legendary German conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler directs the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in this great interpretation of Mozart's wonderful Symphony No. 39. Recorded in Berlin, July 2, 1944.

On December 6, 1786, Mozart completed his 38th Symphony, nicknamed "Prague". Here is the scintillating 3rd movement from this Symphony. Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTPX3VU27mE Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Manfred Honeck

Requiem in D Minor, K626 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) I. Dies irae, Allegro assai II. Tuba mirum, Andante III. Rex tremendae majestatis IV. Recordare V. Confutatis, Andante VI. Lacrimosa Genia Kühmeier, Soprano Elisabeth Kulmann, Alt Mark Padmore, Tenor Adam Plachetka, Bass Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Dirigent: Mariss Jansons Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor KV 626, performed by the Choir of the Bavarian Radio and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio conducted by Mariss Jansons. Recorded live in 2017. Additional performers include Genia Kühmeier, Elisabeth Kulmann, Mark Padmore, and Adam Plachetka. A production by BR-KLASSIK.

He became famous for his love affairs, but Casanova was also a writer, diplomat and spy. Born in Venice 300 years ago, his name still resonates around the world. Giacomo Girolamo Casanova admires his tall, slender figure in the gold-trimmed mirror as he adjusts his wig. Everything needs to be perfect as his latest lover is on her way. Oysters, venison and champagne are ready. The beauty Casanova is waiting for is enchanted by the setting. After dinner, the seducer urges her into the bedroom, where they indulge in a night of lovemaking. "Feeling that I was born for the...

Globalism, 18th century style. This was extremely common at the time, in the cultural sphere. "Don Giovanni", Mozarts' opera, opened in Prague, Bohemia in 1787. Mozart was a Austro-German, his librettist Da Ponte was a Venetian-Italian ex Jew and ex-priest. All sung in Italian by an international cast, none, I think, were Czechs/Bohemians. "Don Giovanni" is based on a Spanish legend, that became a Spanish play in verse (think Shakespeare) by Tirso de Molina, which was ripped off by the French playwright Moliere (and others). All produced with permission and tacit support by the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXJj5_avNpI...

"Sonnet 18" by William ShakespeareShall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and...

The 'Mostly Mozart’ festival was canceled in favor of more ‘inclusive’ fare,' -- rappers, pop groups and an LGBTQ mariachi band while hanging a 10-foot-wide disco ball above its fountain.”

It seems it should be the opposite, that Mozart should be grafted onto Bach. But in this instance, I can't hear any player of the Gigue from Bach's French Suite No. 5, playing it with any vision of how it should sound, so fast that they just seem to want to get through it so their teachers, who assigned them the piece, will get off their backs. (It seems like they all hate the piece, as if they're escaping from hell while being dished out a dose of castor oil.) My vision is for the French Suite No. 5 Gigue...

Mozart - "Leck mich im Arsch" - Canon in B flat for 6 Voices, K. 231 / K. 382c | 2:22Am4d3usM0z4rt | 158K subscribers | 3,102,462 views | April 30, 2012

Loud music by the likes of Beethoven, Mozart and Vivaldi has been blaring inside the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station, along with the blinding effects of floodlights, the LA Times reported. The push is part of a pilot program launched in January using a royalty-free playlist to drive out the homeless and cut down on crime — but some critics have described the sonorous strategy as tone-deaf torture that fails to address the underlying problems. The tactic of using loud music with ulterior motives is nothing new.

Direct medical evidence? None. Autopsy? Not performed. Medical records? Nowhere to be found. Corpse? Disappeared. Yet according to a recent article in an academic journal, researchers have posited at least 118 causes of death for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A modest industry of medical speculation has grown up around the subject, evidence of our fascination with what cut down great creative artists in history. In Mozart’s case published speculation began within a month of his death in 1791, and musicologists, physicians and medical scholars have regularly joined the fray ever since. Dr. William J. Dawson, a retired orthopedic surgeon...bibliographer for the...