Candid shots from a pre-recording rehearsal in Santa Monica for the song cycle “Four Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva,” a collaboration between composer Mark Abel and translator Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, chair of the Russian Department at Bowdoin College. The musicians are the renowned soprano Hila Plitmann, pianist and Delos label director Carol Rosenberger, and Sarah Beck,…
Provintia, “Sunset of Chihkan Tower” (赤崁夕照) by Chihchun Chi-sun Lee (b. 1970) Taiwanese-American composer Chihchun Chi-sun Lee, winner of the first Biennial Brandenburg Symphony International Composition Competition and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, was educated in Taiwan and the United States. She received a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University in Taiwan, two masters’ degrees from Ohio…
Please enjoy these shots of violinist Sabrina-Vivian Höpcker and pianist Dominic Cheli rehearsing Mark Abel’s “The Elastic Hours” in Los Angeles. Later on we moved to famed Capitol Recording Studios in Hollywood to lay down this piece for Mark’s next album, “The Cave of Wondrous Voice.” Photos by the fabulous Jeanine Hill (with contributions from Sabrina and…
Deserted Garden by Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953) When the Chicago Symphony premiered Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 in 1933, it was the first time that a major orchestra performed a work by an African-American female composer. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and educated at the New England Conservatory, Price wrote music that shows influences from…
Classical MPR’s The Choral Stream hosted a live broadcast with composer Jake Runestad about his music on the new Conspirare recording The Hope of Loving – watch it on demand via Facebook today: The Hope of Loving: Choral Works of Jake Runestad Jake Runestad is one of America’s leading composers of the younger generation; witness his…
Opera News names Stephen Costello‘s A Te, O Cara recording with Constantine Orbelian and the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra a Critic’s Choice! “the tenor sounds better than ever on his latest album, featuring bel canto’s greatest hits. … Take, for example, the album’s opener, La Fille du Régiment’s ‘Ah! Mes amis.’ Costello does not reach for…
A recent announcement on the OPERAWIRE website revealed that the voice contest in the upcoming 16th International Tchaikovsky Competition (beginning June 17) will offer a special new prize in memory of legendary operatic baritone and Delos Artist Dmitri Hvorostovsky. The prize will include an award of $15,000 USD and a performance in the Russian city…
On May 6, it was announced that “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, in partnership with the All-Star Orchestra (ASO) under the baton of prolific Delos recording artist Gerard Schwarz, had won this year’s Emmy® Award in the Special Event Coverage (Other than News and Sports) category. This was the seventh Emmy® won by…
On Monday, it was announced that the 2019 International Opera Awards had selected soprano Asmik Grigorian as Female Singer of the Year and tenor Charles Castronovo as Male Singer of the Year! Ms. Grigorian is the featured soprano in Delos’s audio recording, Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sings of War, Peace, Love and Sorrow (DE 3517), with distinguished Maestro Constantine…
Delos’ international A&R director, globetrotting conductor Constantine Orbelian, recently returned to his San Francisco home base from an extended stay in Armenia and was pleasantly surprised to find multiple letters of congratulation from California political figures for his 2019 GRAMMY Award nomination for Best Opera Recording. Orbelian and audio engineer Vilius Keras were honored for their…
KRCB Public Radio’s “A Novel Idea” program broadcast an interview with Carol Rosenberger about her new memoir, To Play Again: A Memoir of Musical Survival. Listen below and in the KRCB “A Novel Idea” Podcast in iTunes: To Play Again 2019 Sarton Women’s Book Award Finalist 2018 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS BRONZE MEDAL WINNER Explore…
The International Opera Awards announced their 2019 Nominees and four Delos artists have made the list! Soprano Asmik Grigorian was nominated in the Female Singer category, both Charles Castronovo and John Osborn were nominated in the Male Singer category, and Ildar Abdrazakov was nominated in the Readers’ Choice Award category (cast your vote)! Congratulations to all four…
April 1, 2019 UPDATE The winners have been announced and To Play Again has received a Silver Medal Finalist Award. The Story Circle Network has announced the 2018 Finalists for the Sarton Women’s Book Awards. The Story Circle Network is an international nonprofit community of women writers and the Book Awards are given annually to…
The Armenian Mirror-Spectator has a new interview with Constantine Orbelian in light of his third GRAMMY® nomination, “Best Opera Performance”, for Verdi’s Rigoletto. See his reason for wanting to do a recording of the work, and then read the full interview on mirrorspectator.com: First of all, I love opera and love Verdi. What appealed to…
Delos is proud to announce that the final recording by the late, lamented Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky — Rigoletto (DE 3522) —has been nominated for a 2019 GRAMMY® Award in the Best Opera Recording category. The album was released just days before Hvorostovsky’s untimely death from brain cancer last November. During the great singer’s last two…
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