Classical Music Performances,
Art Exhibits, Books and Recordings
FIDELIO Online
Reviews by
Schiller Institute and LYM Authors
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The Schiller Institute will post regular online reviews of Classical music performances, books, art exhibitions, and related activities. With this, we hope to involve our fellow citizens in creating a scientific and artistic freedom of the mind , and to lift civilization out of the Romantic and Dionysian cultural swamp it has been sinking into over the past four decades, since the onslaught of the rock-drug-sex counterculture.
At the same time, we will make available on the site, reviews published earlier in Fidelio and EIR Magazine, which have universal historical and cultural significance.
Of special importance will be reviews contributed by members of the LaRouche Youth Movement, whose intensive work over the past few years in Classical science and music has already begun to create a revolution in those fields.
More links and articles of interest can be found on the Schiller Institute Education Page.
FIDELIO Online Reviews
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Houston Mozart Doubleheader: Bold Intent Undermined by Ahistorical “Abduction” (Houston Opera)
Beauty and Pathos Of Mozart Undermined By Director's Conceit (Los Angeles Opera)
“Marriage of Figaro": An Opera for Our Time (Michigan Opera Theatre)
Verdi's Tragedy "The Masked Ball" Brings Joy to Houston Opera Attendees
“Cyrano”: A Romantic Opera Which Begs for the Classical
Los Angeles Opera's Superb "Fidelio" Does Justice to Beethoven
Houston Grand Opera: A Spectacular “Aida”
Detroit Opera: Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio
Puccini’s “Turandot”
Mozart's Don Giovanni from a Houston Opera *
Seattle Opera Butchers Mozart
Verdi’s ‘Il Trovatore’: Sublime Love vs. Revenge at the Washington National Opera*
‘Rigoletto’: Verdi’s Education of the Emotions - Michigan Opera Theater **
Verdi’s LaTraviata - The Woman Who Went Astray *
Close to Perfection - Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro at Los Angeles Opera **
András Schiff in Concert, Washington, DC, 2003 *
Clemenza di Tito in Dresden, Germany, 2000
Books, Recordings and Exhibits
Art Exhibit Celebrates Spain's Humanist Alliance With America Against Britain
Rembrandt Etchings at The National Gallery *
Lorenzo DaPonte: Mozart’s American Librettist
The Mandeville Model: Fable of the Bees
Emma Azalia Hackley 1867-1922 African-American Singer and Social Activist
The Joy of Reading Don Quixote
The Military Genius of Jeanne d'Arc, and the Concept of Victory
President Garfield and the Pythagorian Theorem
Mozart’s “The Philospher’s Stone” *
The Classical Revolution in Jewish Liturgical Music * from EIR
Celebrating God's Universal Creation ** from EIR
more to come...
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An early print portrays the scene in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, where the Count discovers Cherubino hiding in the chair.
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