The foundation created by British philanthropist Sir Peter Moores has contributed to a wide variety of projects, from scholarships for minority youth to the establishment of art galleries. Music lovers are particularly in his debt for his efforts to bring opera to a wider public, which include commissioning new works, staging obscure operas, subsidizing the recording of operatic rarities, and the production and recording of the standard repertoire in English translation. This last effort is particularly significant because ...
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The foundation created by British philanthropist Sir Peter Moores has contributed to a wide variety of projects, from scholarships for minority youth to the establishment of art galleries. Music lovers are particularly in his debt for his efforts to bring opera to a wider public, which include commissioning new works, staging obscure operas, subsidizing the recording of operatic rarities, and the production and recording of the standard repertoire in English translation. This last effort is particularly significant because it lays to rest the widely accepted truism that English is an inadequate language for bel canto singing. The recordings of dozens of complete operas translated from a half a dozen languages, as well as many recitals of arias in English, make it clear that in good translation, English is perfectly well suited to bel canto, and the advantages of hearing an opera in one's native language often more than compensates for what is lost. Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore makes a strong case for...
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Add this copy of Great Operatic Arias 18 to cart. $3.92, fair condition, Sold by Goodwill of Colorado rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, published 2007 by Chandos.
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