With its 440 photographs, this book, which is unique in its kind, highlights important milestones in the history of music that have also been formative for us. VOICES offers insights into the life stories of artists. Outstanding performers tell us about experiences with their colleagues, renowned personalities in the music and theater scene. And they also give us glimpses into their private realms: making music at home with their families, social backgrounds, and such sensitive themes as setbacks, fears, or long-yearned-for appreciation, and how they found the key to their voices. This impressive volume represents history from 1945 to the present, passed down by way of personal accounts.
The texts are based on conversations conducted by Christine Cerletti and Thomas Voigt during the pandemic in 2021/22, or they were written by the artists themselves. Choosing diverse approaches, they outline how the stage can become an emotional space. Their stories are musical history narrated from a personal perspective. The desire to share things is incredibly strong. What remains after the caesura established by the pandemic: (musical) theater is closeness.
Artists: Michele Angelini, Benjamin Appl, Marco Armiliato, Nikolaus Bachler, Cecilia Bartoli, Piotr Beczala, Benjamin Bernheim, Ivor Bolton, Rudolf Buchbinder, Okka von der Damerau, Diana Damrau, Lise Davidsen, Helmut Deutsch, Mark Elder, Tara Erraught, Brigitte Fassbaender, Renée Fleming, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Sol Gabetta, Elina Garanca, Daniele Gatti, Alban Gerhardt, Anja Harteros, Thomas Hengelbrock, Ioan Holender, Ermonela Jaho, Jonas Kaufmann, Simon Keenlyside, Jürgen Kesting, Sophie Koch, Dagmar Koller, Barrie Kosky, Jochen Kowalski, Brian Large, Christa Ludwig, Ambrogio Maestri, Jack Mastroianni, Sunnyi Melles, Giancarlo Del Monaco, Edda Moser, Regula Mühlemann, Camilla Nylund, Kristine Opolais, Anne Sofie von Otter, Antonio Pappano, Mauro Peter, Marlis Petersen, Luca Pisaroni, Anita Rachvelishvili, Sondra Radvanovsky, Bogdan Roscic, Golda Schultz, Anja Silja, Bo Skovhus, Frederica von Stade, Pinchas Steinberg, Nina Stemme, Bryn Terfel, Ludovic Tézier, Christian Thielemann, Lorenzo Viotti, Franz Welser-Möst, Jörg Widmann, Judith Williams, Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Johanna Wokalek, Pretty Yende, Sonya Yoncheva
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James Jolly was editor of Gramophone, the world's most respected classical record magazine, from 1989 to 2005. He has co-presented a monthly new releases programme for XM Classics, part of the US-based satellite radio network, XM Radio based in Washington DC, and also hosted Virgin Atlantic's classical music programme. He has co-hosted the Midem Classical Awards in Cannes. His written contributions outside Gramophone include articles for The Grove Dictionary of Opera. His first professional encounter with BBC radio included a period as one of the producers of Saturday Review (the precursor of CD Review) at the end of the 1980s.
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Christine Cerletti studied singing with Margherita Perras in Zurich and switched to applied psychology in 1979. After graduation she worked as a vocational counselor until 1985. In 1986 she resumed her vocal training in Vienna and New York with Peter K. Elkus and received her SMPV teaching diploma in singing in 1993, subsequently working as a vocal pedagogue for fifteen years. Since 1985 Cerletti has regularly appeared in concerts in Switzerland and beyond, with her repertoire concentrating on lieder and oratorios. Since 2003 she has organized musical soirées in private settings, performing with her own recitals and inviting guest soloists. In 1993 she also took up painting and drawing; she creates portraits in pastel chalk, as well as landscape and nature studies executed in various techniques. Christine Cerletti is a patroness and the founder and chairwoman of four foundations in Basel, one of which devotes itself to social issues while the other three are active in the fields of culture and music.
Thomas Voigt is a writer, filmmaker, presenter and vocal coach. Between 1992 and 1996 he edited the magazine Opernwelt, and from 1998 to 2003 was editor-in-chief of the classical music magazine Fono Forum. Since 2010 he has also advised Jonas Kaufmann as his media manager. For his work as a writer he was honored with the Gottlob Frick Medal, and his feature Prima la Donna was nominated for the ARD Audio Drama Prize.
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