Three straight days overwhelmed by work and three straight nights deprived of live performances have threatened to make me a dull boy indeed; happily, I'm overcompensating this weekend. Saturday afternoon brings the New York premiere of Rachel Portman's lovely all-ages charmer, The Little Prince, at City Opera. That evening's Ligeti-palooza at Miller Theatre will at long last tend to my Koh dependency (rimshot!). And on Sunday night I'll be taking in Eve Queler's Opera Orchestra of New York in William Tell at Carnegie Hall, featuring my main man Marcello Giordani (as well as a fresh young catch about whom La Cieca and Sieglinde are both abuzz).
Thanks to Sieglinde, Alex and Anastasia for their thoughtful comments on yesterday's LHL/NYT post, and to Vilaine Fille and Marc Geelhoed for ruminations elsewhere. Thanks, too, to TONY buddy -- and, by the way, one of this city's most outstanding theater critics -- Adam Feldman for pointing out to me that the excellent actor now playing Cosme McMoon in Souvenir is Donald Corren, not "Corben." I've corrected that mistake in the pertinent post.
Playlist:
György Ligeti - Violin Concerto - Frank Peter Zimmerman, Asko/Schönberg Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw (Teldec)
György Ligeti - Ramifications - Asko/Schönberg Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw (Teldec)
György Ligeti - Mysteries of the Macabre - Peter Masseurs, Asko Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw (Teldec)
György Ligeti - Síppal, Dobbal, Nádihegedüvel - Katalin Károlyi, Amadinda Ensemble (Teldec)
The Sword - The Sword (Kemado, to be released Feb. 14, 2006)
Isis - Panopticon (Ipecac)
Led Zeppelin - Presence (Swan Song)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonatas Nos. 21, 20 & 16 - Kun-Woo Paik (Decca)
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