David Karlin
Founder at Bachtrack
Co-founder and director of Bachtrack. Tech-head, foodie, writer about opera, music and travel, mad about skiing, tennis and scuba. @[email protected]
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2 days ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
English is famous as a language of poetry, but is not generally considered a natural language for opera. For the form’s first three hundred years, Italian predominated even at the courts of English royalty, while French, German, Russian and even Czech all have bodies of work many times that of English; indeed, the language was almost absent from operatic repertoire. Nicky Spence in Welsh National Opera’s Peter GrimesAlmost, but not entirely.
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1 week ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
From farm girl to star soprano soloist to chief executive of one of her country’s major cultural institutions: Susanne Rydén’s career path has been anything but typical. But in September last year, she tells me, when she took on the tongue-twisting role of Executive Director and CEO of the Stockholm Konserthuset Foundation and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, she felt completely ready.
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4 weeks ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
The city of Toulouse was at the heart of Caesar’s Gallic Wars in 57 BCE, which makes its Théâtre du Capitole a highly appropriate place to see Bellini’s Norma. Conscious of the connection, director Anne Delbée places us straight away in the realms of Gaulish myth.
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1 month ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
« Quand j'étais petit, me raconte l'écrivain et entrepreneur Johan Idema, mon oncle m'emmenait voir des concerts de musique classique. Il me chuchotait tout le temps à l'oreille des choses comme “regarde la trompette”. Il me donnait des indications ou des conseils sur quoi écouter, et cela a eu un effet considérable. Ce chuchotement m'a permis de mieux suivre la musique grâce à ses instructions en temps réel.
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1 month ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
„Als ich ein kleiner Junge war“, erzählt der Autor und Unternehmer Johan Idema, „nahm mich mein Onkel immer zu klassischen Konzerten mit. Er flüsterte mir die ganze Zeit Dinge ins Ohr wie 'Achte auf die Trompete'. Er gab mir Hinweise oder Tipps, worauf ich achten sollte, und das hatte einen großen Einfluss.
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