News from Melba Recordings
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4/08/2008
This is a conversation with conductor Guillaume Tourniaire on his return from the Macerata Festival (Italy), where he oversaw the first production of Marco Turino’s opera based on The Servant by Robin Maugham (July 2008). He talks about the score he...
24/07/2008
Transcript of Interview:
TERRY LANE: Is a night on the stage as Brünnhilde a day’s good work?
Lisa Gasteen: Yes. If I’m in the first act of anything I like to get in two hours before curtain up. In the Götterdämmerung because I’m in the prologue,...
1/03/2008
Musical Magic of Persian and Greek Nights
Young French chief conductor Guillaume Tourniaire has brought back concerts onto the stage of State Opera Prague, and has done it in remarkable quality of both dramaturgy and interpretation. In autumn he...
1/03/2008
The French in Prague
To go to Prague to the auditorium of the New German Theatre, opened 120 ago, to listen to two works by a renowned French composer, which had been forgotten for a hundred years and which have for the first time been recorded...
29/02/2008
Conductor Richard Bonynge keeps a schedule that would challenge a man half his age. The 77-year-old trots the globe conducting opera and ballet, makes records and undertakes scholarships. Though based in Switzerland, the Sydney-born conductor...
19/02/2008
The world is strange: a man goes to Prague to discover Australia, but more accurately he discovers Melba Recordings, an entrepreneurial CD company unknown to me until now.
This business is named after the legendary Australian Prima-Donna, who...
6/02/2008
Note Worthy
For the first time in more than 100 years, Camille Saint-Saëns’ one-act opera Hélène will get a public airing next week, though not in the composer’s native Paris. The Prague State Opera is staging a concert performance of the...
2/02/2008
Barry Tuckwell, Ben Jacks, Vladimir Ashkenazy. Photo: Terry Lane
Barry Tuckwell was a font of colourful orchestral anecdotes drawn from an extraordinary career. The following story is not from, but about Barry - a Sydney Symphony Orchestra cameo...
31/12/2007
"A long lost opera, composed for the late Dame Nellie Melba, has its world premiere recording in Melbourne more than a century after its last performance."ABC News article by Greg Hoy, published 1 Jan 2008
11/11/2007
An interview with Maria Vandamme, Founder of Melba Recordings and producer of the SACD Recording of Wagner's Ring
Why did Melba record this Ring in Adelaide?
I have been recording operas for 20 years, and having worked with John Culshaw, and Sir...
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