Giuseppe Sinopoli is dead
Argirio
tonight.
Richard Loeb
"Argirio" <arg...@libero.it> wrote in message
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Shandy1368289886
You mean he died, or is not conducting very well!?
Shandy
Argirio
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Shandy
Eagle_Hen
He should have lived (and conducted) longer.
EH
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MarkZ1000
>You mean he died, or is not conducting very well!?
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>Shandy
Well, it's that he's no longer conducting very well now that he's dead!
Have just gone over my CDs and find that all I have by Sinopoli are the
following:
Mahler: Symphony #8
Moussorgsky-Ravel: Pict. at an Exhibition
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Puccini: Tosca
Strauss: Electra
Strauss: Salome
Verdi: Rigoletto
Wagner: Tannhauser
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
Can anyone suggest other recordings I can get from this great conductor
both for great performances and great sound?
Don Marco di Chicago!
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Matthew B. Tepper
<20010420213714...@ng-mo1.aol.com>:
>>????
>>You mean he died, or is not conducting very well!?
>>
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>>Shandy
>
> Well, it's that he's no longer conducting very well now that he's
> dead!
>
> Have just gone over my CDs and find that all I have by Sinopoli are
> the
>following:
>
>Mahler: Symphony #8
>Moussorgsky-Ravel: Pict. at an Exhibition
>Puccini: Madama Butterfly
>Puccini: Tosca
>Strauss: Electra
>Strauss: Salome
>Verdi: Rigoletto
>Wagner: Tannhauser
>Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
>
>Can anyone suggest other recordings I can get from this great conductor
>both for great performances and great sound?
Puccini's _Manon Lescaut_, with Freni and Domingo; and Respighi's Roman
Trilogy, with the New York Philharmonic.
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Thomas H. Israel
Having spent time visiting, on several occasions, the sites of the action of
this opera (Central City, Leadville, The Matchless Mine), I've always been
fascinated with the Baby Doe story. And, naturally, the opera intrigues me,
too.
How pleased I am that I chose to attend a performance of this work last
evening, as it was a special occasion at New York's City Opera. This was an
event honoring the memory of Frances Bible, who had been scheduled to attend
this particular performance. Unfortunately, her sudden and unexpected death
last January in California just three days after her 82nd birthday prevented
this from taking place.
The General Manager of City Opera appeared on stage to read a letter from
Beverly Sills - a letter recalling special and fond memories of working with
Frances Bible, an artist who enjoyed a lengthy career at City Opera
(1948-1977).
This event brought together a sizeable group of Frances Bible's personal
friends, who also enjoyed a reception in her honor.
It was great to hear this work again. What great memories it recalls! - And
how fortunate we are to have the DGG recording with Frances Bible and
Beverly Sills.
Now I'm quite eager to hear DIE TOTE STADT again on Tuesday; it's been a
long time since I last saw that opera! - THANKS, CITY OPERA, FOR AN
OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY THESE "RARITIES."
(By the way, the General Manager made a special point of telling the
audience that he was SURE everyone had remembered to turn off cell phones,
beepers, and watches that sound the hour!)
TOM ISRAEL
LEBANON, PA
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Derek
<arg...@libero.it> wrote:
>Maestro Giuseppe Sinopoli is dead during the second act of Aida in Berlin
>tonight.
i was so shocked and i was wishing this to be a bad joke. but it appears
to be for real. and that makes me so very very sad. sinopoli is my
favourite conductor. so many of his recordings are on my favourite CD
list. there is no chance to hear him live any more. what about the
current bayreuth ring production? no chance to hear or see it, i guess?
sinopoli conducting the ring...judging from his other wagner recordings
should be really well done and interesting. so sad. his strauss tone
poems are simply superb, but got so little attention they deserved. his
mahlers are not always tops, but nonetheless unique, creative, and
valuable. i could not stand some people who complain about sinopoli
while at the same time whining that every conductor sounds the same with
middle of the road interpretation.
derek
Enrique Eskenazi
a loss!
Regards
---
Enrique
eske...@teleline.es
Cub driver
Since you collect Baby Doe sites, you might be interested in this
story: when I was a freshman at the University of New Hampshire in
1950, the president was one Arthur Stanton Adams. Naturally I took him
for the height of Boston aristocracy, but when I met him in his
retirement some years later it turned out that he was a hillbilly like
me, and hadn't graduated Harvard but the Colorado School of Mines.
His first job on graduation was working for the state, inspecting old
mines for safety, and his first assignment was Leadville. One day he
rode up to the Matchless and was greeted by an old hag with a shotgun,
who fired one barrel at the future president of UNH. Happily she
missed, and the afternoon ended with Dr Adams (as I think of him, tho
he didn't have his PhD at the time) having tea with Baby Doe Tabor.
So at the end of the opera, when Horace tells Baby, "Don't let go of
the Matchless!", know that she didn't, and that she was still
defending it just one and one-half lifetimes ago.
all the best - Dan Ford (email: use...@danford.net)
The Only War We've Got (Early Days in South Vietnam)
http://danford.net/onlywar.htm
A Tsar Is Born
Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli Dies
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 8:50 a.m. ET
BERLIN (AP) -- Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli died after suffering a
heart attack and collapsing on stage during a performance of Verdi's
``Aida'' at Berlin's prestigious Deutsche Oper opera house. He was 54.
Sinopoli was rushed to the German Heart Center clinic in the German capital
after he was stricken during the third act late Friday. Doctors were unable
to resuscitate him, the clinic said in a statement early Saturday.
The performance did not continue after his collapse.
Born in Venice in 1946, Sinopoli studied music during the late 1960s and
early 70s in his home city as well as in the former West Germany, back in
Italy in Siena and finally in Austria.
He founded the Bruno Maderna ensemble in 1975 -- named after the fellow
Venetian conductor under whom he studied in Darmstadt in Germany -- and
launched his career as both a conductor and a composer. He first presented
his own opera, ``Lou Salome,'' in Munich in 1981.
Sinopoli, who was also a doctor of medicine, was appointed chief conductor
at Rome's St. Cecilia National Academy in 1983 and a year later took up the
same post at the city's Philharmonic Orchestra.
In 1985 he made his debut at New York's Metropolitan Opera with Puccini's
``Tosca'' and at Germany's Wagner festival in Bayreuth with ``Tannhaeuser.''
He went to Berlin in 1990 to lead the orchestra at the Deutsche Oper before
moving to the eastern German city of Dresden two years later as musical
director of its Staatskapelle orchestra.
Ian Graham
<ench...@herodotus.com> writes
>BERLIN (AP) -- Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli died after suffering a
>heart attack and collapsing on stage during a performance of Verdi's
>``Aida'' at Berlin's prestigious Deutsche Oper opera house. He was 54.
This is very sad news, what an untimely death.
This will leave a big gap, not least as he was due to conduct the Ring
at Bayreuth this year.
IG
--
Ian Graham
tresbirri
>
>Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli Dies
>By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>He went to Berlin in 1990 to lead the orchestra at the Deutsche Oper before
>moving to the eastern German city of Dresden two years later as musical
>director of its Staatskapelle orchestra.
He was never the chief conductor at the Deutsche Oper. He was *named*
chief conductor, but he did not take up the appointment, because of a
big fight with Goetz Friedrich. Sinopoli gave the contract back and did
not appear at the Deutsche Oper for 10 years.
The two performances of Aida, yesterday and tomorrow, were planned as a
gesture of reconciliation between Friedrich and Sinopoli. After these
many years, the two men had finally met and talked and agreed to forget the
past.
Sinopoli agreed after Friedrich's recent death, to still conduct the two Aidas,
his first performances at the Deutsche Oper since 1990, now as an homage and
memoriam to Goetz Friedrich. In the program for last night's performance,
Sinopoli wrote: "Now everything goes on this evening without him, but for
him. I dedicate to him the feelings that will be given to me tonight, in
this theater which I have loved and which loved me, and to which I return
because Goetz took me affectionately on the hand and asked me, not to forget
any part of our past, but to remember above all the more strong, beautiful
and true parts. As Goetz accompanies me [in spirit] to the podium this
evening, it will seem to me that he repeats in a clear and convincing
voice the words of Sophocle's Oedipus: 'You and this city. May fate be
kind to you both. In happiness and peace remember me with joy when I am
dead.'"
Now, of course, the words which he intended to remember Friedrich are
appropriate to remember Sinopoli himself.
tresbirri
David Spence
: now to be able to respond here. A few friends of mine might counsel
: me, that perhaps I could be sorry about his passing, so as not
: to be able to kick him around anymore. At the same time, I own
: several Sinopoli recordings (Mahler 9. Gurrelieder, Salome,
: Strauss/Wagner lieder, and a Schoenberg disc that just arrived
: in the mail from Berkshire, including the Chamber Symphony,
: that was on a very early recording of his with the BPO (and Pollini).
: I have no plans to get rid of any of them. His Mahler Ninth is
: not only one of the best unsung recordings of the piece, but
: arguably one of the 2 or 3 best during the digital era. Higher
: superlatives could apply to the Gurrelieder, also now out of print
: domestically.
: Who or how many among his detractors, and I include myself here,
: especially subscribers who post here, could not look forward to
: most any new Sinopoli release with a certain degree of anticipation,
: even if mixed with either trepidation or glee? The recent NPR
: broadcasts of the Wagner Ring, and the reports that came back
: on the Mahler 6 concerts here several months ago might have seemed
: to go the distance in allaying any fears that Sinopoli's interpretative
: powers might mellow too soon with age, but the immortal Gods would not so
: easily be appeased. Who among us, mostly including his detractors,
: could be so intrigued if Sinopoli had not thought so intensely
: and most of the time sincerely about the music he conducted during
: his all too short life and career?
: His passing should grieve us all, even for something so small
: as his not having been able to continue with the Ring for several
: more seasons at Bayreuth, for his ideas about this mammoth work
: to have adequate time to completely gel and cohere.
: It would almost seem to philosophically defeat the current purpose
: of the festival for Sinopoli to pass at this time.
: I hope Sinopoli's detractors will join me in quietly saying that all
: is pardoned now - his deconstructionist ways (i.e., taking Puccini's
: Manon Lescaut completely apart and putting it back together again
: in a way unfamiliar to anyone who at least might have thought they
: knew the score well), Sinopolisms, or whatever you would prefer.
: We can be all thankful that he made us think of the music we
: listen to more intensely, than if we could have always settled
: for the comfortable run-of-the-mill. I, as much as anyone,
: was anxious and looking forward to what the next 20 odd years would
: have been like. As shocking in his passing as provocative in his
: life, he will be sorely missed. I hope that noyone read what I write
: here that I at all make light of this tragedy. I hope to look
: forward to hearing, posthumously, the Turandot and Rosenkavalier that
: may be around in one format or another.
: Requiescat in pacem.
: Sincerely,
: David
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David Spence
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David Spence
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: I wrote thanking you for posting the comments Sinopoli had made
: on Friedrich's behalf. Surprised that what little I wrote did not post.
: I did not know that Sinopoli and Friedrich had settled their
: long standing feud, so feel greatly relieved that they ended
: their lives on the right terms with each other. (I've forgotten
: what all was at the source of their disagreement).
: Did these Aida performances mark Sinopoli's return to the DOB
: after not conducting there for nearly eight years, or had
: he been back before?
: Ditto. Is it not true that the very first program Sinopoli
: conducted in Manhattan (his American debut) the same as
: as the last concert he ever conducted there (at Avery Fisher
: both times) - Mahler 6? Did anyone who posts here get to
: attend both? It would be interesting for DGG to release
: a broadcast of one of the more stable broadcasts of Mahler 6
: from the tour, if they would be so resourceful. We still have
: yet to see sufficient domestic release of Mahler's Das Lied,
: Bruckner 8 and 9.