Richard Temple Savage in Royal Opera House - January, 1952
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, pages 139-140:
"Billy Budd" was followed in January 1952 by the first stage production in this country of Berg's "Wozzeck", conducted by Kleiber. Before rehearsals started every player had been given an English libretto to read, to help us understand the work more thoroughly. This was his normal practice for all new works when he was Musical Director at the Berlin Staatsoper. We had nineteen rehearsals in all with separate sectional ones for strings, brass and woodwind. He tool infinite pains with us; Berg's notation does not make it easy for the players at time but with Kleiber everything became … more >>
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Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 139-140. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1433701363830 accessed: 1 September, 2024
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Richard Temple Savage
1909-
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Wozzeck
written by Alban Berg |
performed by Covent Garden Opera Company, Erich Kleiber |
Experience Information
Date/Time | January, 1952 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by iepearson on Sun, 07 Jun 2015 19:22:43 +0100
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 16:11:16 +0000