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2024-02-02 16:03:00
Written on Skin, Deutsche Oper, 1 February 2024
Images: WRITTEN ON SKIN, Regie: Katie Mitchell, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Premiere: 27. Januar 2024, copyright: Bernd UhligProtector – Mark Stone Agnès – Georgia Jarman First Angel, The Boy – Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Second Angel, Marie – Anna Werle Third Angel, John – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Angel archivists – Leander Gaul, Yasmina Giebeler, Milli Keil, Maximilian ReisingerDirector – Katie MitchellRevival director – Dan AylingDesigns – Vicki MortimerLighting – Jon ClarkDramaturgy – Sebastian Hanusa Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Marc Albrecht (conductor) More than a decade has passed since I first saw George Benjamin’s second opera, Written on Skin, at Covent Garden. The premiere, both of the work and Katie Mitchell’s well-travelled production, took place at Aix in 2012. Now it reaches, for the first time, Berlin in a further revival of Mitchell’s staging for the Deutsche Oper. It is my fourth hearing, since I attended both the Royal Opera’s 2017 revival and, the […]
2023-10-26 03:30:00
Rachmaninoff: The Piano Concertos and Paganini Rhapsody (CD Review)
by Ryan RossYuja Wang, piano; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor. Deutsche Grammophon 486 4759 (2 CDs) It is a strange coincidence that as I have been listening to these Rachmaninoff discs, I just finished reading Samuel Lipman’s Music After Modernism (Basic Books, 1979). This book is a series of essays outlining the author’s thoughts about the Western classical tradition during what he saw as its twilight years. One of his arguments is that the lack of vital new repertoire adopted by performers in any enduring way sees them adding new interpretations of well-established favorites to an ever-growing backlog. One wonders what Lipman would have thought of the explosion of previously unrecorded repertoire and its champions from the 1980s up to the present, with the advent of the compact disc and then streaming. (Since he passed away in 1994, his experience of these developments would have been limited or non-existent.) But given the […]
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2023-03-14 07:14:34
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2022-08-08 11:52:34
Proms 28 & 29 Mahler Chamber Orch/Andsnes review – exquisite grace brings Mozart’s musical storytelling to life
Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn two concerts of Mozart works from 1785 and 1786, Leif Ove Andsnes and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra collaborated as creative equals, with pristine focus and quicksilver touchFirst Beethoven, now Mozart: Norwegian pianist
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