By Robert Croan Lied is the German word for song (plural: Lieder). A Liederabend is an evening of German songs, usually the songs of the great 19th and early 20th-century composers – among them Beethoven, Schubert, Richard Strauss and Hugo Wolf. Their songs were the popular music of their time, at first rooted in folksong but eventually expanding in scope to encompass … [Read more...]
Fine singing triumphs over spare production at FGO’s ‘Lucia’
Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor has returned to Florida Grand Opera for the third time in a dozen years, opening the Miami company’s 77th season with a visually stripped-down but well-sung production of this 1835 bel canto favorite. The production itself, which has no built set, comes from Houston Grand Opera and was designed by Britain’s Liz Ascroft to be sung in … [Read more...]