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Feb 12, 2015 - 7:56 AM
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Rozsaphile
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There's a big difference between "conducting opera" and accompanying a singer's concert appearance. It has been said that the opera house is the true training ground for conductors. Most of the past century's leading maestros spent decades directing opera. Toscanini, Furtwangler, Walter, Bohm, Klemperer, Solti, Karajan, Levine, Muti -- all emerged from the opera. Staged opera involves changing repertory, multiple languages, diverse styles, rotating international (and multilingual) casts, and prima donna singers trying to act in unfamiliar stagings while somehow following the musical cues. The opera performance is in perpetual danger of falling apart without strong musical direction. A professional orchestra, by contrast, can often perform (in the short run) without any conductor at all. No disrespect to Maestro Williams's enormous studio and concert experience, but I don't think he's ever led an operatic performance.
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Ernani is an opera, so even i it was just an aria from it I feel my question was asked correctly. I knew he had never conducted a full operatic staging.
In any event, whatever happened to the opera John Williams was commissioned by Placido Domingo to write for the LA Opera, does anyone know if the project was just abandoned?
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