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2024-01-17 11:48:00
Antikrist, Deutsche Oper, 13 January 2024
Lucifer, A Voice – Thomas Lehman God’s Voice – Jonas Grundner-Culemann The Echo of the Air of Mystery – Valeriia Savinskaia The Air of Mystery – Irene Roberts The Mouth speaking Great Words – Clemens Bieber Despondency – Maire Therese Carmack The Great Whore – Flurina Stucki The Scarlet Beast – AJ Glueckert The Lie – Kieran Carrel Hatred – Philipp Jekal Dancers – Ashley Wright, Giorgia Bovo, Ana Dordevic, Sakura Inoue, Vasna Felicia Aguilar, Yuri Shimaoka, Joel Donald Small, Shih-Ping Lin, György Jellinek, Miguel Angel ColladoDirector, set designs – Ersan MondtagRevival director – Silke SenseCostumes – Ersan Mondtag, Annika Lu HermannLighting – Rainer CasperChoreography – Rob FordeynDramaturgy – Lara Gebhardt, Carolin Müller-Dohle Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines) Opera-Ballet and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinHermann Bäumer (conductor)ANTIKRIST, Regie: Ersan Mondtag, Premiere 30. Januar 2022 Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Thomas Aurin Rued Langgaard’s ‘church opera’ Antikrist is […]
2023-11-17 19:46:00
[…] the connection afforded by Ariosto’s time at the Este court in Ferrara, Ruggiero was held to show neither composer nor librettist at his best. Now gout-ridden and in his eighth decade, Maria Theresa’s old music-master and longstanding favourite composer was eclipsed by the success the following day of a second commissioned opera, from the sixteen-year-old Mozart and Giuseppe Parini: Ascanio in Alba. The two productions had three singers in common: the soprano Antonia Maria Girelli Aguilar, the castrato Giovanni Manzuoli, and the tenor Giuseppe Tibaldi. All were past the heights of their careers, yet seem to have fared better in Mozart than in Hasse. Set designs for both were provided by a team of three brothers: Bernardino, Fabrizio, and Giovanni Antonio Galliari. Hasse’s alleged remark, ‘Questo ragazzo ci farà dimenticar tutti’ (‘This boy will render us all forgotten’), rings with poetic if not incontrovertibly historical truth. A new production of […]
2022-07-20 14:48:36
The Protean Quartet, an early-music ensemble hailing from Germany, is comprised of Javier Aguilar and Edi Kotler (violins), Ricardo Gil (viola), and Clara Rada (cello). The group triumphed over six other finalists, including the renowned recorder quartet Palisander. York Early Music International Young Artists Competition carries a cash prize of £1,000, a professional recording contract […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-07-19 15:10:00
Protean Quartet wins this year's York International Young Artists Competition,
Protean QuartetThe Protean Quartet from Germany has been announced as the winners of this year's York International Young Artists Competition, a biennial competition that takes place at the National Centre for Early Music and came as the climax to this year's York Early Music Festival. Playing repertoire that included Josquin des Prez and Schubert's Rosamunde Quartet, the quartet (Javier Aguilar, Edi Kotler violins; Ricardo Gil viola; and Clara Rada cello), fought of competition from finalists including Ensemble Augelletti and Palisander from UK, plus artists from France, Netherlands, and Italy.The judging panel was Edward Blakeman (BBC Radio 3); Albert Edelman (President, Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne 2019 - 2022); Producer and recording engineer Philip Hobbs (Linn Records); violinist Catherine Mackintosh; and harpsichordist, Professor Barbara Willi. The winning ensemble receives a professional recording contract from Linn Records, £1,000 cash prize, and opportunities to work with BBC Radio 3 and the NCEM.The Prize for the Most […]