Apparently, Stravinsky isn’t the only important 20th Century composer entombed at San Michele in Venice: Bruce Hodges from Monotonous Forest includes this photo (courtesy of David Conway) on his post regarding the ICE’s performance this past week of Luigi Nono’s A floresta é jovem cheja de vida (The Forest is Young and Full of Life), a work for voice, instruments and electronics from 1966. (Unlike Stravinsky, Nono apparently doesn’t warrant a signpost. Yet.) Steve Smith’s Times review here.
And, while I’m thinking of Venice and composers who lived there, the blowout event of this summer’s Lincoln Center Festival is the Kirov Opera’s performance of Wagner’s Ring, in a new production partly conceived by artistic director Valery Gergiev. Admirably, they’re going to stick to Wagner’s intention to perform the complete cycle over four consecutive days. The bad news: you need to buy the full cycle. (Cheapest seats left: $600.) Wonder what they’ll ask for standing room…