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Œdipe, Komische Oper, 29 August 2021
Images: Monika RittershausŒdipe (Leigh Melrose), Jocaste (Karolina Gumos), Laïos (Christoph Späth) Œdipe – Leigh Melrose Tirésias – Jens Larsen Créon – Joachum Goltz High Priest – Vazgen Gazaryan Night Watchman – Shavleg Armasi Shepherd – Johannes Dunz Laïos – Christoph Späth Jocaste – Karolina Gumos Sphinx – Katarina Bradić Antigone – Mirka Wagner Mérope – Susan Zarrabi Evgeny Titov (director)Rufus Didwiszus, Charlotte Spichalsky (set designs)Eva Dessecker (costumes)Ulrich Lenz (dramaturgy) Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin (chorus director: David Cavelius) Vocalconsort Berlin Children’s Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin (chorus director: Dagmar Fiebach) Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin Ainārs Rubikis (conductor) Tirésias (Jens Larsen), Œdipe, Jocaste Art returns in various ways. There is, nor should there be, no one-size-fits-all. In London, the Royal Opera, largely silent during the days of endless lockdown and occasional reprieve, lightened our […]
2021-03-29 17:18:56
Anglais - A Carmen on the edge at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
In Barcelona, Carmen always comes as a balm for the arks of a theatre that is constantly in a financial crisis. Carmen is a comfortable title, it gets a full house, and this was not an exception. It was presented in the "outrageous" version by Calixto Bieito, originally created for the Festival of Peralada, which has been running around the world for 15 years, conveniently adapted, with a significant success. It is a difficult, risky production. Carmenis a fleshy, wild, violent opera, an intense, brutal and rude story about sex, desire and freedom, and about the impossibility of combining them with life in society. Bieito approached it from this perspective, without sparing any detail, no matter how harsh. Some of its elements are arguable. Was it necessary to feature a naked dancer in the moonlight moving as a bullfighter during the prelude to the 3rd act? No, it […]
2019-09-21 15:29:00
Eugene Onegin, Komische Oper, 20 September 2019
Images copyright: Iko Freese / drama-berlin.de Eugene Onegin – Günter Papendell Tatiana – Natalya Pavlova Olga – Karolina Gumos Lensky – Aleš Briscein Mme Larina – Stefanie Schaefer Prince Gremin – Tijl Faveyts Filipievna – Margarita Nekrasova Zareski – Changdai Park M. Triquet – Alexander Fedorov Zaretsky – Changdai Park Captain – Carsten Lau Guillot – Yuhei Sato Barrie Kosky (director)Rebecca Ringst (set designs) Klaus Bruns (costumes)Simon Berger (dramaturgy)Franck Evin (lighting) Orchestra and Chorus (chorus director: David Cavelius) of the Komische Oper Ainārs Rubikis (conductor) What’s in a name? Should Tchaikovsky’s opera – which, as Barrie Kosky states in the programme booklet, should be considered alongside Pushkin, not as its musical translation – really be called Eugene Onegin at all? Or would Tatiana Larina be the more fitting title? Eugene and Tatiana, perhaps? It is a silly question, really; for one thing, no […]
2019-07-04 06:56:47
Mozart travelogues, moon landings and Mansfield Park: the 2019 Lichfield Festival
2017 Lichfield Festival (photo Redlock Photography) The Lichfield Festival (festival director Damian Thantrey) opens on Friday 5 July 2019, providing nine days of music, dance, comedy, talks, family events and more. Headlined by K T Tunstall whose concert on Friday opens the festival, performers include the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, The Mozartists, and Voces8, with Jonathan Dove as featured composer.The BBC National Orchestra of Wales returns for a second year of residency and with conductor Ainar Rubikis performing Elgar's Enigma Variations and Sea Pictures, with mezzo-soprano Polly Leech, and Shostakovich's Cello Concerto, with Andrei Ionita. Ian Page and The Mozartists present A Mozart Travelogue with soprano Louise Alder, harpist Oliver Wass (who performed in the premiere of my opera The Gardeners last month), and Gavin Edwards (horn).Jonathan Dove is the festival's featured composers. Voces8 will be performing his new work (and celebrating the 50th anniversary of the moon landings), […]
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