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2024-03-04 07:33:00
Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
[…] the performance it was announced that Jones had recently returned after illness, and after the Act One the role was sung from the side of the stage by Brenton Spiteri (who is playing Edmondo in ETO's production of Puccini's Manon). Nazan Fikret was Anne Trulove, Jerome Knox was Nick Shadow, Trevor Eliot Bowes was Father Trulove, Lauren Young was Baba, Amy J Payne was Mother Goose and Robin Bailey was Sellem. Designs were by April Dalton, lighting by Ben Ormerod and movement by Alex Gotch.Is Stravinsky's opera (his first full-length opera) a pastiche, something new or simply Stravinsky? Much is often made of the self-consciously classical structure that Stravinsky used for the opera, but ETO's programme book quotes conductor Mark Wigglesworth as saying "it isn't neo-anything: it's pure Stravinsky, and Russian Stravinsky, the same person who wrote The Rite of Spring". I have to confess that rather too often the […]
2024-02-18 15:34:10
[…] fatal. Sofulak goes further still, explicitly linking the two operas by conceiving Aleko and Cavalleria’s Alfio as the same man, 20 years apart, and haunted – in every sense – by a crime he is doomed to repeat.Both stagings shift the action of their operas significantly: Cavalleria Rusticana trades sun-kissed Sicily for 1970s communist Poland, and Aleko’s gypsies become the free-loving denizens of a 1990s surfers’ colony, with designs by Charles Edwards (sets) and Gabrielle Dalton (costumes) doing delectable justice to both settings. If the former, with its stripped-back aesthetic and prevailing unease, packs more of a wallop than the candy-coloured latter, the same might well be said of the operas themselves: Rachmaninoff’s episodic score can’t quite match Mascagni’s, neither for momentum nor for word-painting, richly evocative though it undoubtedly is.
2024-01-15 16:11:56
Schein and many other, 2024
[…] known for his art songs. None of these composers were what is usually called “great” but all were talented and some of their works are very interesting. Listen, for example, to Alexander Tcherepnin’s 10 Bagatelles, op. 5 in a version for piano and orchestra (here). Margrit Weber is at the piano, Ferenc Fricsay conducts the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Or, in a very different way, here’s Duparc’s fine song, L'invitation au Voyage. Jessye Norman is accompanied by Dalton Baldwin. One composer, also born this week, interests us more than all the above, even though his name is almost forgotten- Johann Hermann Schein. Schein, a good friend of the better-known Heinrich Schütz, was one of the most important German composers of the pre-Bach era. He was born on January 20th of 1586 (99 years before Bach) in Grünhain, a small town in Saxony. As a boy, he moved to Dresden where he joined […]
2024-01-15 15:34:25
Henri Duparc - L'invitation au voyage Jessye Norman (Soprano)Dalton Baldwin (Piano)
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