The Mexican soprano Lourdes Ambriz, the voice of Belle in Disney’s 1990 Spanish-language version of Beauty and the Beast, has died at 67.
After a diverse international opera career, Lourdes served from 2015 to 2017 as Artistic Director of the Ópera de Bellas Artes.
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Continuing our ongoing survey of the symphonies of Hugo Alfvén (1872-1960), we reach the richly complex Fourth symphony in C-Minor, Op. 39 of 1919. The subtitle is, in Swedish, “Från Havsbandet”; in English, “From the […]
These days, she confines herself to the first piano concerto. But then the second was written first (see Why Beethoven). The post Martha plays the second Beethoven appeared first on Slippedisc.
Musicians in Hamburg and Lisbon are in shock over the death of Pedro Freire, former principal trumpet of the Elbphilharmonie and the Gulbenkian orchestras. No cause has yet been made known. The Gulbenkian site has […]
