Podcast appearances and mentions of daniel snowman

A pesar de que le tocó nacer en una diminuta aldea de la provincia de Parma, en el norte de Italia, dentro de una familia humilde (su padre era posadero y su madre hilandera), Giuseppe Verdi se las arregló para convertirse en el más grande operista de todos los tiempos. Estuvo muchos años en activo y fue cosechando éxitos durante décadas. El primero de ellos fue “Nabucco”, ópera estrenada en 1842 cuando el compositor aún no había cumplido los treinta años y acababa de quedarse viudo. A partir de ahí se convirtió en una rutilante estrella que terminaría por dar forma al panorama operístico de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX. La ópera en Italia era ya en aquella época todo un orgullo nacional. Los italianos llevaban más de cien años componiendo óperas de la máxima calidad y era el italiano la lengua por defecto de toda ópera con pretensiones, sin importar el lugar de Europa en el que hubiese sido compuesta. Verdi supo aprovechar esa primacía italiana continuando el trabajo de los maestros del bel canto como Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizzetti o Vincenzo Bellini. A todos los superó imprimiendo al género un sello personal e inconfundible que aúna de forma magistral la palabra y la música. Pero esa genialidad, reconocida ya por los críticos musicales de su propia época, no le convirtió en un autor de minorías marginado de los grandes teatros, al contrario, Verdi fue durante buena parte de su vida el compositor más demandado de Europa. Recorrió el continente de punta a punta y fue agasajado por monarcas y gente importante. Su denominada “trilogía popular”, compuesta por “Rigoletto”, “Il Trovatore” y “La traviata” cosechó un éxito inmenso y le hizo muy rico. Durante años le llovieron los encargos, pero, una vez conseguida la fama y el dinero, creyó conveniente relajarse y disminuir su producción para disfrutar de su vida privada en una villa campestre que adquirió en su comarca natal. Eso no le impidió seguir estrenando y, sobre todo, participar de la vida política de su tiempo. A Verdi le tocó vivir la unificación de Italia, algo que apoyó con entusiasmo poniendo su música al servicio de ese empeño. Los italianos sentían que Verdi estaba musicalizando la gesta nacional y no iban desencaminados. Para burlar a la censura austriaca hacían pintadas por las paredes en las que ponían “Viva Verdi”, acrónimo de Vittorio Emmanuele Re d’Italia. Una vez en el trono, el rey le recompensó con honores y nombramientos. Fue elegido, además, diputado y senador, pero, aunque la unificación de Italia le interesaba, no sucedía lo mismo con la política activa. Verdi sólo se debía a la música. Compuso hasta una avanzada edad. Estrenó “Otello” con 74 años y Falstaff con 80. Viviría aún casi ocho años más hasta que en 1901, ya con el nuevo siglo recién comenzado, murió en un hotel de Milán. Su funeral fue multitudinario, cientos de miles de milaneses se echaron a la calle para dedicarle su último adiós. Desde entonces sus óperas no han dejado de representarse porque sigue siendo uno de los favoritos del público. Pues bien, para conocer más a fondo la vida y la obra de Giuseppe Verdi hoy tenemos en La ContraHistoria a José María Concha, que es músico (pianista para más señas) y todo un entendido en la obra de Verdi. Bibliografía: - "Giuseppe Verdi: La intensa vida de un genio" de Ángeles Caso - https://amzn.to/3yOI9Uo - "Giuseppe Verdi: El Impetu de la convicción" de Fernando Toledo - https://amzn.to/3IlUpyM - "Giuseppe Verdi" de Daniel Snowman - https://amzn.to/3nJhdiD - "Con moltissima passione. Ritratto di Giuseppe Verdi" de Raffaele Mellace - https://amzn.to/3yniNvw · “La ContraHistoria de España. Auge, caída y vuelta a empezar de un país en 28 episodios”… https://amzn.to/3kXcZ6i · “Lutero, Calvino y Trento, la Reforma que no fue”… https://amzn.to/3shKOlK · “La ContraHistoria del comunismo”… https://amzn.to/39QP2KE Apoya La Contra en: · Patreon... https://www.patreon.com/diazvillanueva · iVoox... https://www.ivoox.com/podcast-contracronica_sq_f1267769_1.html · Paypal... https://www.paypal.me/diazvillanueva Sígueme en: · Web... https://diazvillanueva.com · Twitter... https://twitter.com/diazvillanueva · Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/fernandodiazvillanueva1/ · Instagram... https://www.instagram.com/diazvillanueva · Linkedin… https://www.linkedin.com/in/fernando-d%C3%ADaz-villanueva-7303865/ · Flickr... https://www.flickr.com/photos/147276463@N05/?/ · Pinterest... https://www.pinterest.com/fernandodiazvillanueva Encuentra mis libros en: · Amazon... https://www.amazon.es/Fernando-Diaz-Villanueva/e/B00J2ASBXM #FernandoDiazVillanueva #Verdi #Opera Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Discovering his family's Nazi links is what happened to historian Martin Puchner when he set out to explore the use of a secret language by Jewish people and other travellers in middle Europe. He joins author and language expert Michael Rosen for a conversation with Matthew Sweet about Yiddish, Rotwelsch, codes and graffiti. Plus as we mark Holocaust Memorial Day hearing about new research into the takeover of railways and civic buildings in occupied France from historians Ludivine Broch and Stephanie Hesz-Wood. Martin Puchner's book is called The Language of Thieves. He teaches English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University Michael Rosen is the author of books including On the Move: Poems about Migration; The Missing - The True Story of My Family in World War II; Mr Mensh and So They Call You Pisher!: A Memoir. Ludivine Broch teaches at the University of Westminster and is an Associate Fellow of the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism and has written Ordinary Workers, Vichy and the Holocaust. Stephanie Hesz-Wood is researching a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London called A Spatial History of Drancy: Architecture, Appropriation and Memory You can hear Ludivine talking to Matthew Sweet about the Gratitude Train - a project of thanks given by ordinary people in France to America for their part in World War II in this episode of Free Thinking https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hwz9 A discussion about Jewish Identity in 2020 featuring guests at last year's Jewish Book Week Howard Jacobson, Bari Weiss, Hadley Freeman and Jonathan Freedland https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwqd A discussion about Remembering Auschwitz https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dq00 Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger and New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeevor from the Pears Institute discussing stereotypes and also anti-Semitism https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 Past programmes for Holocaust Memorial Day hearing from the late David Cesarani, Richard J Evans and Jane Caplan https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0506lp0 Monica Bohm Duchen, Daniel Snowman and Martin Goodman on Art and Refugees from Nazi Germany https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00027m6 Producer: Luke Mulhall

Specially hosted at Studio Wayne McGregor, join members of the cast and creative team as they discuss ENO’s brand new production of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Please note the live musical performance has been removed from the beginning of this recording. Opera Previews is one of a number of events available exclusively to ENO Friends. To find out more about Friends events, please visit www.eno.org/eno-supporters-events. Hosted by Daniel Snowman, the panel includes: Harry Bicket (Conductor) Wayne McGregor (Director/Choreographer) Soraya Mafi (Love) Sarah Tynan (Eurydice)

Hansel and Gretel played at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre from 14 - 22 June 2019. In this episode, Daniel Snowman leads a Q&A with some of those involved with Hansel and Gretel, our co-production with English National Opera. On the panel are Heather Lowe who plays Hansel, Elizabeth Karani who plays Gretel, the conductor Ben Glassberg, director Timothy Sheader, and Assistant Conductor Mark Biggins. https://openairtheatre.com/ #HanselandGretel #OAT2019

Following this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day, Anne McElvoy looks at new writing which reflects on this history and at a festival marking the impact on British culture of refugees and artists who fled from the Nazis. Ed Williams from leading marketing firm Edelman sifts through the fall-out from Davos. Martin Goodman's novel J SS Bach is published in March 2019. Daniel Snowman's books include The Hitler Emigrés: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism. Monica Bohm-Duchen has edited a book Insiders/Outsiders: Refugees from Nazi Europe and their contribution to British visual culture and initiated a festival which is working with 60 nationwide partners including Tate Britain, National Portrait Gallery, London Transport Museum, Pallant House Gallery and Glyndebourne. More information can be found at https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/ Free Thinking past programmes include a debate about historical understandings of the holocaust and interviews with survivors https://bbc.in/2U86TzP Producer: Torquil MacLeod

Join members of the cast and creative team as they discuss ENO’s brand new production of Strauss’s Salome. Opera Previews is one of a number of events available exclusively to ENO Friends. To find out more about Friends events, please visit www.eno.org/eno-supporters-events. Hosted by Daniel Snowman, the panel includes: Susan Bickley (Herodias) Martyn Brabbins (Conductor, Music Director) Margaret Howell (Designer) Philip Turner (Senior Stage Manager) Glen Sheldon (Orchestra) Corinne Young (Wigs and Make Up Manager)

Institute of Historical Research Book: Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin London, Penguin, 2011, ISBN: 9780141036939; 576pp.; Price: £9.99 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowman, review of INTERVIEW: Claire Tomalin talks to D...

Institute of Historical Research Book: Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin London, Penguin, 2011, ISBN: 9780141036939; 576pp.; Price: £9.99 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowman, review of INTERVIEW: Claire Tomalin talks to D...

Institute of Historical Research Book: To Hell and Back: A History of Twentieth-Century Europe Ian Kershaw London, Penguin, 2015 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowman, review of INTERVIEW: Professor Sir Ian Kershaw talks to Dani...

Institute of Historical Research Book: To Hell and Back: A History of Twentieth-Century Europe Ian Kershaw London, Penguin, 2015 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowman, review of INTERVIEW: Professor Sir Ian Kershaw talks to Dani...

Institute of Historical Research Book: Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923 Roy Foster New York, NY, W. W. Norton, 2015, ISBN: 9780393082791; 480pp.; Price: £25.00 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowma...

Institute of Historical Research Book: What is the History of Knowledge? Peter Burke Cambridge, Polity Press, 2015, ISBN: 9780745669830; 160pp.; Price: £45.00 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowman, review of INTERVIEW: Daniel Sn...

Institute of Historical Research Book: Reflections: Conversations with Politicians Peter Hennessy, Robert Shepherd London, Haus Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 9781910376485; 220pp.; Price: £20.00 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowman, ...

Institute of Historical Research Book: Reflections: Conversations with Politicians Peter Hennessy, Robert Shepherd London, Haus Publishing, 2016, ISBN: 9781910376485; 220pp.; Price: £20.00 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowman, ...

Institute of Historical Research Book: History's People: Personalities and the Past Margaret MacMillan London, Profile Books, 2016, ISBN: 9781781255124; 288pp.; Price: £11.99 Reviewer: Professor Margaret MacMillan University of Oxford Citat...

Institute of Historical Research Book: My History: A Memoir of Growing Up Antonia Fraser London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2015, ISBN: 9780297871903; 320pp.; Price: £16.00 Reviewer: Daniel Snowman Citation: Daniel Snowman, review of INTERVI...

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Speaker: Daniel Snowman (London) 2nd Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Lecture: 'The Hitler Emigrés' Revisited

Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies Speaker: Daniel Snowman (London) 2nd Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Lecture: 'The Hitler Emigrés' Revisited