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The Tempest – Shakespeare and Johnson
The Tempest saw a strict collaboration between Shakespeare and musician Robert Johnson which gave birth to something unique, getting very close to Opera
432Hz – Traditional vs natural tuning
432Hz tuning has been abandoned some 60 years ago. But why has 440Hz been favored?
Baudelaire’s goats
ecently I really had no time to compose much unfortunately, being busy with an arrangement of Der...
Does size matter?
Who says opera should only be staged and performed by big opera houses? When it comes to small opera companies there...
Creative dissonance
When it comes to creativity, some emotions are better than others. Or are they? The amount of research and studies on...
Drowning culture
It’s official: on august 6, while some people were on vacation and others preferred not to be bothered, the Italian...
Diverging rails
A recent interview to Franz Welser-Möst got me thinking about Karl Böhm....
Midsummer night’s rant
I'm hearing too many bad performances. I don't mean badly executed from a technical point of view (well, sometimes...
Conducting Pills
A FREE video series with an analysis of structure, phrasing, and, of course, conducting tips of repertoire works: from Mozart to Brahms, from Beethoven to Debussy. A new episode every week!
