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Rene Fleming makes her debut in the role of Grafin in this
production of Strauss's opera recorded live at the Opera National
De Paris in 2004. Ulf Schirmer conducts, and there are performances
from Anne Sophie Von Otter, Dietrich Henschel, Rainer Trost, Gerard
Finley and Franz Hawlata.
George Heriot (1759-1839), a Scot, is best known as a skilled
landscape watercolourist and as the contentious deputy postmaster
general of British North America from 1800 to 1816. He was also a
travel writer (his Travels through the Canadas was published in
1807) and a poet. In this volume, a combination of biography and
art history, Gerald Finley presents, for the first time, a rounded
picture of Heriot, revealing his motives and ideals while also
illuminating the texture of life in Canada during the early years
of settlement. In describing Heriot's several roles as artist,
administrator, patriot, spy, Finley presents a portrait of an
eighteenth-century gentleman whose superficial desires were for an
active public life but whose deeper yearnings were for a life of
contemplation. As a member of the gentry it was natural that Heriot
found his way into public service, for which he was suited both by
education and by upbringing. Nevertheless, his public career did
not always run smoothly and it ended in frustration and sadness.
However, through his writing and especially his art Heriot found
welcome relief from the tensions of his public duties. Indeed,
Heriot's chief importance lies in his art. Trained as a
topographical artist, he was an important exponent of the
picturesque landscape. As a mode of vision the Picturesque
furnished him with a special way of looking at recording the
Canadian scene - to him Canada possessed the qualities of Arcadia.
This viewpoint served both as aesthetic consolation and as stimulus
to inspiration. This volume serves to recognize Heriot's artistic
achievement and to accord him the place he deserves in the history
of Canadian art and of the country itself.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies began work on his parodic opera
Resurrection whilst studying at Princeton in the early 1960s but it
wasn't until the 1980s that he resumed composition. It was finally
staged in 1987. Its violent diversity though any stylistic jolts
are deliberate takes aim at a series of targets (state, church, and
media) and is expressed in a dazzling but masque-like succession of
scenes, and through the blackly comic pastiche of hymn tunes,
marching bands, saccharine waltzes, and banal TV advertisements.
Mark-Anthony Turnage's operatic take on the lurid life of former
Playboy model and octogenarian billionaire's wife, Anna Nicole
Smith. Eva-Maria Westbroeck takes the lead role in this production
filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in February 2011,
with Antonio Pappano conducting.
A recording of David McVicar's 2011 production of Richard Wagner's
opera, performed for the first time at Glyndebourne, with Vladimir
Jurowski leading the London Philharmonic Orchestra. An all-star
cast features Gerald Finley, Marco Jentzsch, Anna Gabler, Michaela
Selinger, and Topi Lehtipuu.
Mark-Anthony Turnage's operatic take on the lurid life of former
Playboy model and octogenarian billionaire's wife, Anna Nicole
Smith. Eva-Maria Westbroeck takes the lead role in this production
filmed at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in February 2011,
with Antonio Pappano conducting.
J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), widely known as perhaps the most
eminent landscape painter of the romantic era, considered himself
particularly a painter of historical landscapes. His distinctive
landscapes were often enriched with symbolism and allegory that set
them apart from those of his artist contemporaries and mystified
his audiences. "Angel in the Sun" is an unconventional study of the
richness and complexity of Turner's vision of history as revealed
through his drawings and paintings. Turner was deeply affected by
the world in which he lived, the sciences that explained it, and
the conflicts and accomplishments of his society. He wove these
strands into the dense fabric of the historical pictures he
created, pictures that were extremely varied, complex, original,
and controversial. In "Angel in the Sun", Gerald Finley untangles
the various thematic strands running through Turner's art,
including the intersection of private and public histories,
classical and biblical history and contemporary events, and science
and religion, and shows how Turner's use of light and colour played
an important role in conveying these ideas. "Angel in the Sun"
includes over 130 illustrations in colour, and black and white,
that reveal Turner's remarkable achievement as a painter of
historical subjects. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, the
book will appeal not only to art historians and landscape theorists
but also to historians of science and literature. Gerald Finley, a
fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, is professor emeritus of art
history, Queen's University. His other books include "Landscapes of
Memory: Turner as Illustrator to Scott" and "George Heriot:
Postmaster Painter of the Canadas".
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