{"id":9391,"date":"2013-01-31T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T19:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=9391"},"modified":"2013-01-31T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T19:05:10","slug":"canadian-opera-company-orchestra-turns-richard-bradshaw-amphitheatre-into-villa-wahnfried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2013\/01\/31\/canadian-opera-company-orchestra-turns-richard-bradshaw-amphitheatre-into-villa-wahnfried\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Opera Company Orchestra turns Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre into Wagner&#8217;s villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9392\" style=\"width: 968px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9392\" alt=\"idyll\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/idyll-e1359658771136.jpg\" width=\"968\" height=\"1296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/idyll-e1359658771136.jpg 851w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/idyll-e1359658771136-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/idyll-e1359658771136-764x1024.jpg 764w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johannes Debus leads 13 members of the COC Orchestra in Richard Wagner&#8217;s Siegfried Idyll on January 31 (John Terauds iPhone photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a nod to the impending 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner&#8217;s birth, Canadian Opera Company music director Johannes Debus led 13 members of his orchestra in a limpid, affecting reading of the Siegfried Idyll.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>[Corrected]Originally known as the Triebschen Idyll, it had its premiere on the main stairs at the Wagners&#8217; villa, Triebschen, in Switzerland. It was Richard&#8217;s Christmas present to his wife Cosima.<\/p>\n<p>To echo that occasion, the musicians stood on the big steps of the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, while the audience sat in the space where artists normally perform.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great idea.<\/p>\n<p>The COC is celebrating the Wagner anniversary in a big way with the current new production of <em>Tristan und Isolde<\/em> &#8212; and in smaller ways through its free lunchtime concert series between now and the end of the season in June.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m under the impression that the original impetus to use COC Orchestra members more in the lunchtime concerts was an economy move, but it has turned into a great opportunity for those instrumentalists to connect with each other and with Torontonians in all sorts of more intimate ways.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a nod to the impending 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner&#8217;s birth, Canadian Opera Company music director Johannes Debus led 13 members of his orchestra in a limpid, affecting reading of the Siegfried Idyll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,4,10,76,19,36,63,1],"tags":[825,1744,2515,3008,3536],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/01\/idyll-e1359658771136.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-2rt","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9391"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}