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Curious, Cultural Conversation from Calgary and Beyond! CULTURE MONSTER delivers intriguing stories about the giants from the past and introduces you to fascinating figures from the present. Hear what art-makers think about their work in their own words, and listen to host Jonathan Gresl bring to life some forgotten tales from the worlds of music, film, literature and more.
There is always more to explore on CULTURE MONSTER.
EPISODE 3: Mark Morash and the Shakespeare Riot
I speak with Interim Music Director of the Calgary Opera about his musical journey, the need for Opera companies to invest in R&D, and the emotional power of the human voice. I also tell the story of the time competing versions of “The Scottish Play” in New York City caused a riot.
SHOW NOTES and links!
The story of the battle of the film rights over agent 007 is told in Robert Sellers book “The Battle for Bond.”
http://tomahawkpress.com/battle-for-bond-banned-edition/
Stratford Festival productions at CBC GEM:
https://gem.cbc.ca/series/stratford-presents/all/8d5898e8-9215-4c97-8fe3-a10b30c89d58?cmp=sch-stratford
Stratford@Home:
https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/Subscription
The story about Astor Place Riot is told is several places, including this podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library:
https://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited/astor-place-riot
For a more complete telling, Nigel Cliff has written an entire book about the incident- titled “The Shakespeare Riot: Revenge drama and death in Nineteenth-Century America.” Cliff situates the incident in tensions between working class Americans and the wealthy elite class:
http://www.nigelcliff.com/?page_id=52
Richard Nelson dramatized the events in his play “Two Shakespearian actors.”
https://www.broadwayplaypub.com/the-plays/two-shakespearean-actors/
Calgary Opera’s page on Mark Morash:
https://calgaryopera.com/resident-artists
Wikipedia page on the San Francisco Opera Merola Opera Program for emerging artists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merola_Opera_Program
Calgary Opera’s free videos:
https://calgaryopera.com/videos
The Operas Mark mentioned:
Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_(opera)
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/heggie-dead-man-walking/680688122
-On CD
http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=5208&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=102119
A Streetcar named Desire by Andre Previn
-streaming
https://music.apple.com/us/album/previn-a-streetcar-named-desire/1452174581
opening scene on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRG29gtyjQc
As One by Laura Kaminksy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_One_(opera)
-streaming
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/kaminsky-as-one/1469926527
cd/download
https://www.brightshiny.ninja/as-one
For starting out in Opera with arias, Renée Fleming told ClassicFM her favourite 6 arias here:
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/renee-fleming-favourite-soprano-arias/
“Che Gelida” by Puccini (mentioned by Mark)
La Boheme - Pavarotti- "Che gelida manina" Fiamma Izzo d' Amico "Si, mi chiamano Mimi"
As always send you questions, queries, ideas for future episodes to Jon@culturemonster.ca
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Curious, Cultural Conversation from Calgary and Beyond! CULTURE MONSTER delivers intriguing stories about the giants from the past and introduces you to fascinating figures from the present. Hear what art-makers think about their work in their own words, and listen to host Jonathan Gresl bring to life some forgotten tales from the worlds of music, film, literature and more.
There is always more to explore on CULTURE MONSTER.
