On special request. Photos of the Week #49

I just saw a very old email sticking its head up. I have to admit I check my hotmail address very seldom and tonight I did… One very kind Justus asked if I had any pictures from the Cecilia Bartoli concert in Rome in June. He had a ticked but fell ill, so he couldn’t [...]

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Klezmer in the hallowed halls. Photo of the Week #41

On Friday I had the great privilege of attending a concert with the klezmer band Mames Babegenush in the hallowed marble halls of the Glyptotek here in Copenhagen. I wish you could all have been there with me. Lots of fun!

These were the guys who played last year at my parents’ 35-year-anniversary-of-being-together which was also a truly happy [...]

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Ballad

Some months ago I happened on a TV show with the Danish singer-songwriter Niels Hausgaard. A hopelessly left wing man who never lets down the small people of society. There was one song that stayed with me and which even made my sister sit down to listen. It’s written in a ballad style very much [...]

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The meteor has landed. Grand opening of Denmark’s new concert hall

On Saturday night Koncerthuset, the Concert Hall of the Danish broadcasting company, Danmarks Radio, had its grand opening. At last! The concert hall has been delayed for months and months and ended up costing much more than any one had imagined (or perhaps some had, but anyways…) and in the end making it the universally [...]

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Friendly Fight. Photo of the Week #13

Going through my photos I happened on this one featuring me and my best friend, Francisco, fighting over a Cecilia Bartoli record after her concert in Rome this September.
 

 
Francisco thought it was his, and it looks like I’m going to lose. So much firmer hand action on his side, dammit!
 
/anna

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Leaf turner

Last night I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful performance of Schubert’s Winterreise with Julius Drake (piano) and Mark Padmore (tenor) in Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Truly a concert of international format.

Mark Padmore.
For me the concert also constituted a debut in the leaf turner business. Julius Drake only remembered yesterday afternoon that he might be [...]

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La Notte Bianca

Last night was La Notte Bianca, the white night, in Rome with lots of cultural stuff going on all night all over the city. The programme was so massive that you could only do a fraction of it so I had picked a couple of things I would like to see beforehand.
After having had dinner [...]

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Lucio Dalla

Last night Rome was warming up for La Notte Bianca that will take place tonight. La Notte Bianca is a cultural manifestation (or so the programme says) with concerts, theatre, poetry slam, open museums and happenings going on all night. And they mean it – last concert is programmed to begin at 5 am in [...]

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Cecilia Bartoli in Copenhagen

In May Cecilia Bartoli visited Copenhagen and left a trail of happiness behind her.
She sang arias from her latest cd Opera Proibita which is a collection of beautifully silent pieces and brilliantly breathless virtuosity.
I have now witnessed three concerts with Cecilia Bartoli and I feel entitled to some conclusions about her performances. The thing about [...]

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Werther in Concert

My local library is really good when it comes to buying opera dvds. I often go there and leaf through the selection and find stuff I never knew I craved – but then there it is. Many I just pass visit after visit and then perhaps one day I decide to pick it up. One [...]

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