Kurt Weill’s Broadway musical One Touch of Venus transferred to Hollywood in 1948.
But the delicacy of ‘Speak Low’ was way beyond the capcity of its female lead.
Eileen Wilson did the singing while Ava moved hips and lips.
Why, even the composer could sing it.
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The last director of the Orchestre régional de Normandie, Pierre-François Roussillon, has died a few months after his orchestra was defunded. Son of a famous actor at the Comédie Française, Pierre-Francois was a solo clarinetist […]
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Jonathan Dove: Itch – Adam Temple Smith as Itch and Victoria Simmonds as Watkins – Opera Holland Park 2023 (Photo: Craig Fuller) Celebrating the best new classical music and sound art, this year’s Ivors Classical […]
This release celebrates 25 years of La Cetra Basel. deferred to as “greatest musical masterpiece of all time,” in the 19th century, Bach’s Mass in B minor remains.toweing msterpiece. As conductor Andrea Marcon says, “It […]
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