{"id":259,"date":"2024-11-20T00:10:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2024-11-22T09:22:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T09:22:51","slug":"acdsr1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/acdsr1\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Romanos &#8211; Conductor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-accent-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-73128380 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div style=\"height:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImageampzjK-1024x1019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImageampzjK-1024x1019.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImageampzjK-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImageampzjK-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImageampzjK-768x764.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/tempImageampzjK.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-0aa01211 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.simonromanos.com\">visit Simon&#8217;s website<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-36f65c2d wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Playlist<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"cue-playlist-container\">\n<div class=\"cue-playlist cue-theme-default\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/MusicPlaylist\">\n\t\n\t<meta itemprop=\"numTracks\" content=\"2\" \/>\n\n\t<audio src=\"https:\/\/www.atoll.co.nz\/sharing\/wp-content\/uploads\/ACDSR1%20Simon%20Romanos\/ACDSR1%2001%20-%20Schoenberg%20Verkl\u00e4rte%20Nacht.wav\" controls preload=\"none\" class=\"cue-audio\" style=\"width: 100%; 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General Music Director of New Zealand\u2019s Eternity Opera, his Mozart and Monteverdi have won accolades.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Directly upon graduating Romanos joined the Australian Ballet and Australian Opera and conducted recordings with the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orchestras for ABC Records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He was one of the first Western conductors to work regularly with state and national companies behind the Iron Curtain \u2014 in Hungary, Yugoslavia, and the German Democratic Republic. Romanos continues to build ensembles of fine soloists and loves to combine the drive of chamber music with the sweep of a full orchestral sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romanos appears with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, English National Ballet, Scottish Opera, Stuttgart State Opera, and has curated two major London festivals, for the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Royal Academy of Music. Romanos collaborates with famed artists including Joan Sutherland, Grace Hoffmann, Kelvin Coe, Marylin Rowe, Roger Woodward, and Charles Mackerras. He is committed to new music, giving premi\u00e8res of works by myriad leading composers including Anne Boyd, Franco Donatoni, John Rimmer, Iannis Xenakis, and Tomislav Zografski. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simon Romanos carries a torch for opera in English, and believes in winning new audiences with his<br>vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Schoenberg: <em>Verkl\u00e4rte Nacht<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This piece is Schoenberg\u2019s most loved work. He wrote it as an expression of adoration for Mathilde Zemlinsky, whom he was soon to marry.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It tells the story related by Richard Dehmel\u2019s poem of the same name. Schoenberg uses its themes to re-address some of the topic matter of Wagner\u2019s Tristan und Isolde: extramarital love, sex, betrayal, transcendent release \u2014 subjects taboo in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a certain furious moment, he saturates the harmony with chromaticism. The key centres are still present, but are drowned in dissonance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schoenberg\u2019s demands upon the musical language were constantly powered by his drive to understand the extremities of psychology and human experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1908 Mathilde\u2019s infidelity with Richard Gerstl was to cause the young expressionist painter\u2019s suicide. That infidelity also liberated Arnold, at last, completely and permanently from the tonal system, in his <em>Buch der H\u00e4ngenden G\u00e4rten<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Strauss: <em>Metamorphosen<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Strauss remained in Germany throughout WWII, although he became an increasing irritation to the authorities. He felt that as a leader and figurehead of modernism, he had a duty to protect German art and culture from the anti-intellectual regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the late war years though, Strauss\u2019s cultural credit was exhausted, and those authorities were losing their patience with him. They increasingly held his compositions back from performance. At the same time, he made it was clear he wanted nothing to do with the Reich Culture Ministry, having been appointed titular director without his agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The final blow for Strauss was the bombing of Munich in October 1943. He saw in the wreckage of his beloved National Theatre the end of any chance to rescue German cultural life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Music such as the final scene of die Meistersinger with its hymn to \u201cSacred German Art\u201d carried an unbearable poignance for him, and he quotes obliquely from it, and from Tristan, along with the funeral march from the Eroica in his tragic yet exquisite study for 23 solo strings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playlist About Simon Long established in Vienna and London, conductor Simon Romanos enchants audiences with his readings of the Austro-German repertoire. 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