As regular readers may be aware, I am interested in number of different things than just Wagner. Some of these I examine elsewhere and these would no doubt be of little interest to any readers of this little part of cyberspace - and thus not worth mentioning. However, what might be of some interest is my fascination with 20/21st century art, cinema, theatre and music. Occasionally, I have found myself including that here - the odd piece of Berg or Schönberg for example. Yet, this has always seemed a little "out of place" here. Certainly, I have always felt prohibited from including art, cinema, literature or cinema from - for lack of a better set of terms - Modernism or Post-modernism.
So, with that in mind, I have started an occasional blog that will examine these very items. For anyone remotely interested, this rather eclectic space may be found by clicking the title below:
Metallic Mitridate
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Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto is definitely one of his less often
performed works even though it’s astonishingly accomplished for a fourteen
year old com...
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