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Category Archives: Stories
Opera in Daily Life: Don Juan in Hankey, PA
Don Juan in Hankey is a novel about an opera company, which is preparing a new production of Don Giovanni, about the acts and the thoughts of all the people involved. It is a wonderful story. The plot you must … Continue reading →
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Tagged Don Giovanni, Don Juan, Gale Martin, Literature, Mozart, Opera, Reading
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Fülle des Wohllauts
No chapter from a novel describes the delight of the opera lover as beautifully as the above section from Der Zauberberg. Nobody has written about opera as beautifully as Thomas Mann: ‘Ein international Chor gefeierter Sänger und Sängerinnen setzte, begleitet von diskret zurücktretendem Orchester, die hochgeschulte Gottesgabe seiner Stimmen ein zur Ausführung von Arien, Duetten, ganzen Ensembleszenen aus den verschiedenen Gegenden und Epochen des musikalischen Theaters:der … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aida, Carmen, Christoph Eichhorn, Der Lindenbaum, Der Zauberberg, Faust, Listening, Reading, Thomas Mann
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