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Podcast: From soundtrack to centre stage. Björk’s Vespertine

Posted on26 April, 201924 April, 2019AuthorNaxosLeave a comment

The Icelandic singer/composer Björk released her concept album Vespertine in 2001. Raymond Bisha introduces a new audio recording of an opera that was born of that release. The inherent theatricality of Björk’s original was the inspiration for an expert creative team to effect the transition from studio to stage, from sound tracks to symphonic support. Read More …

Podcast: Sister Carrie. The opera of the novel.

Posted on15 September, 20175 September, 2017AuthorNaxosLeave a comment

Sister Carrie, an opera by American composer Robert Aldridge, was first performed in 2012. Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, the novel on which the opera was based, was written in 1900. It was one of the first American novels about social status which, for women around the turn of the 20th century, depended almost entirely on Read More …