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Commemorations 2024 (Inception: Muziektheater Transparant (Antwerp))
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2020-01-21 16:50:00
Usher, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18 January 2020
[…] in the way of a commercial horror film aesthetic. Multiple television screens showing the ill-fated house on fire add little to the drama. What we see too often neither resonates with nor works productively against the grain of the opera itself. There will, however, be opportunities for other productions, I am sure. In the meantime, the work having been co-commissioned by the Staatsoper Unter den Lindn and the Folkoperan Stockholm, three other companies (Opera Vlaanderen, Muziektheater Transparant, and Nanterre-Amandiers centre dramatique national) have joined with them for this co-production. There is no one way to ‘complete’, but this path has proved fruitful.
2019-06-08 17:57:00
Linbury Theatre Ed Lyon (tenor) Marie Hamard (mezzo-soprano) Wim van der Grijn (actor) Annelies van Gramberen, Naomi Beeldens, Raphaële Green (semi-chorus) Lada Valešová (piano, music director) Ivo van Hove (director) Jan Versweyveld (set designs) An d’Huys (costumes) Krystian Lada (dramaturgy) It is more than a decade since I saw Muziektheater Transparant theatre piece, Wolpe!, at the Edinburgh Festival. Stefan Wolpe had hitherto been little more than a name to me; that ‘staged concert’ immediately made him, his music, and his politics much more than than what I see I went to far as to call an ‘inspiring event’. Janáček is unlikely to require such an introduction, at least, should such a thing exist, for a core audience, though one can hardly call him and his music over-exposed. His song-cycle, The Diary of One who Disappeared, should be far better known, or at least more […]
2019-06-08 11:00:12
The week in classical: The Diary of One Who Disappeared; Manon Lescaut; Agrippina/Il Pomo d’Oro; Philharmonia – review
[…] each seething with erotic passion, it requires not only a tenor and pianist, but also – minimally – a mezzo-soprano and three additional female voices. It’s a relative rarity in the concert hall, and a natural for dramatic treatment. Deborah Warner staged it at the National Theatre, in a translation by Seamus Heaney, in 1999. Now the omnipresent Belgian director Ivo van Hove has constructed an elaborate and coolly mysterious version with the Flemish company Muziektheater Transparant. As part of a world tour, three performances were given at the Royal Opera’s Linbury theatre, with the British tenor Ed Lyon fierce and intense in the central role and Lada Valešová as pianist/music director. New songs by the Belgian composer Annelies Van Parys were incorporated, nominally to give the perspective of the Roma girl, Zefka, sung by the French mezzo-soprano Marie Hamard. If they didn’t add much, sitting discreetly and discretely within […]
2018-09-24 07:38:26
New theatre, new season - Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre re-opens
[…] the performances feature Rachael Lloyd, James Laing, William Berger and Jette Parker Young Artists Jacquelyn Stucker and Patrick Terry.For the annual Jette Parker Young Artists performance, Henze’s final opera, his reworking of Greek myth, Phaedra, is being performed in a new production by Jette Parker Young Artist director Noa Naamat with Southbank Sinfonia, conducted by Edmund Whitehead. Other opera performances include South African lyric theatre company Isango Ensemble, Belgian director Ivo van Hove and Muziektheater Transparant. The dance programme includes the National Dance Company of Wales, Alessandra Ferri, the Royal Ballet in a programme of new dance to new music including a new core by David Sawer, Ben Duke’s company Lost Dog, Yorke Dance Project, Canadian company Cas Public.
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