Saturday, July 29, 2023

The "Moberly-Raeburn" ordering in Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro", and a few observations on the Salzburg Festival 2023 production

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 I had the opportunity to watch a livestream of the new "Figaro" production at the Salzburg Festival and will be seeing the perfor...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Toxic Masculinity and Gender Fluidity in Mozart and Da Ponte's "Le Nozze di Figaro"

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Here in Vienna, I attended, last night, a performance of the new Barrie Kosky production of "Figaro". This is the second in a trip...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

To repeat or not to repeat? To divide or not to divide? Vexed questions in classical music performance

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Anyone who knows me, knows that I'm fanatical about two things in the performance of Austro-German classical music, the question of repe...
Monday, March 20, 2023

The Yellow Gash: Sartre on Tintoretto

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 I was reminded recently of a beautiful British documentary https://youtu.be/YZBAkj54kfA film from the 1980s, exploring the works of Jacopo...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

The French Revolution Distilled into a Single Word in a Mozart Opera (times two)

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 Well, perhaps that was a slight exaggeration in the title, but not by much. I've been struck by how rich the content of the recitatives...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

But not quite...

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 Dear Friends As my academic and professional comments and writings will now appear on Substack (see last posting), I've decided to rest...
Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Moving to Substack.

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 Friends, you can find future posts on Substack.  https://vivekdehejia.substack.com