E.s.t. Live

Tonight’s performance of Falstaff marked the final performance in the run of this new production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf of Verdi’s swansong at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. For this run, the house engaged a mainly Italian cast, joined by selected Hispanophone and/or US singers, led by John Eliot Gardiner. The result was an effervescent evening, received with audible pleasure by the Maggio audience.

Last year, Clapton hosted and curated the seventh instalment of his Crossroads Guitar Festival on September 23 and 24 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA. It notably marked the event's return after a four-year break, selling out the iconic arena on both days. Once again, Clapton carefully assembled a powerhouse cohort of influential guitarists representing various eras and styles.

The curtain rises and we are…nowhere, but it’s very light and bright. Scenery and costumes are black, white, silver, and gold, and variations within those hues; there are many supernumeraries in white wearing long, conical hats (à la commedia dell’arte); an abstract 3-D backdrop represents brilliant shattered light–perhaps a golden/silver sunburst–that changes shape and color and is used by the opera’s characters to climb upon and peer out from; the costumes for the women, all the same, are lavish evening gowns and mammoth hats similar to those in Fellini’s Juliet of the Spirits; video projections alter mood and space (huge, falling leaves of many colors; intangible shapes); and the river in Act 3 is suggested by billowing blue fabric, controlled by men on either side of the stage. In the opening scene the main character is carried in on an altar of white bottles, and the final scene has hints of a Black Sabbath and is peopled by nuns. Furthermore, the main character is thin. Can you guess the opera?

In the late 1980s The Residents embarked on what many fans still consider their greatest live project. “Cube-E – The History Of American Music In 3 E-Z Pieces” spanned almost four years and proposed to do nothing less than its title suggested, telling the story of American popular music, from its birth around the campfires of a non-existent Old West to its death at the hands of Elvis and the British Invasion, all in three easy pieces.

Meyerbeer had already won renown in Italy before conquering Paris with a sequence of much-acclaimed grand operas.

From the Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi, staged by Stefano Poda with musical direction by Paolo Arrivabeni.

The Later Years is a box set by British rock band Pink Floyd released on 13 December 2019 by Pink Floyd Records. It follows the boxset The Early Years 1965–1972 (2016), and concentrates on Pink Floyd's work under the leadership of David Gilmour after the departure of founding member Roger Waters. The boxset includes the albums A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), The Division Bell (1994), and The Endless River (2014). It also includes a remixed version of A Momentary Lapse of Reason, with restored contributions by keyboardist Richard Wright and new contributions by drummer Nick Mason, to "restore the creative balance between the three Pink Floyd members". Also included is an expanded version of the 1988 live album Delicate Sound of Thunder with additional tracks; a live recording of Pink Floyd's headline performance at the Knebworth 1990 charity concert; a previously unreleased concert film from Pink Floyd's performance in Venice; 5.1 surround sound mixes; and memorabilia.

O Guns N'Roses surgiu em uma época em que o mainstream musical era dominado pelos timbres eletrônicos e trouxe de volta à popularidade o rock cru e pesado, com riffs de guitarra marcantes e músicas capazes de agitar e emocionar. A estreia do grupo californiano, liderado por Axl Rose e amparado pela guitarra de Slash, aconteceu em 1987, com o primeiro disco Appetite For Destruction, que virou rapidamente um clássico por conta das músicas Sweet Child O'Mine e Welcome To The Jungle. Com o enorme sucesso, a banda não demorou para lançar novos discos: em 1988 veio G N' R Lies e, em 1991, os dois volumes de Use Your Illusion, contendo o clássico November Rain. Em 1993, a banda lançou The Spaghetti Incident?. Aos poucos, os membros foram deixando o conjunto, o que ocasionou um grande hiato, encerrado com o álbum Chinese Democracy, de 2008, último inédito do conjunto.