Opera Singers Initiative and Opera Cowgirls "do something different" at (Le) Poisson Rouge

By Lydia Brown, 25 July 2013

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Reviewed at (Le) Poisson Rouge, New York City on 23 July 2013

Programme to include:

Fauré, Au bord de l'eau, Op.8 no.1

Fauré, Ici-bas! Op.8 no.3

Hahn, Vingt Mélodies: Si mes vers

Poulenc, La Courte Paille, FP 178: Ba, be, bi, bo, bu

Fauré, Les Berceaux, Op.23 no.1

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492: excerpts

Works by Sondheim

Works by Siebenhaar

Works by LaChiusa

Radiohead, High and Dry

Cohen, Hallelujah

Works by Presley

Eric Sedgwick, Piano

Margaret Meyer, Soprano

Elizabeth Fagan, Soprano

Andrea Chinedu Nwoke, Soprano

Alexandra Smith, Soprano

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****1

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As gifts to the Philarmonia's 80th birthday season, Nicola Benedetti gives a barnstorming account of Elgar's Violin Concerto before Cristian Mӑcelaru gets emotionally drained by La Mer.

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Erica Miner, 18th April

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****1

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Less a symphony, more a force of nature, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in a turbulent, yet spacious reading of Mahler's Ninth Symphony in the Musikverein.

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Lydia Brown

Lydia Brown is presently pursuing her B.A. at New York University, where she studies journalism and ethnomusicology. Though she trained for many years as a classical violinist, Lydia's interests include cross-cultural musical hybridity and the effects of miscegenation on the musical output of early Irish-Americans.