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2021-11-24 07:35:19
In his passion for the music of Richard Wagner, Tony Cooper finds himself back in Deutschland attending yet another Ring cycle at Deutsche Oper Berlin
[…] January of next year (4th, 5th, 7th, 9th) and then that it until 2024. Review by Tony Cooper www.deutscheoperberlin.deDAS RHEINGOLDWotan: Derek WeltonDonner: Joel AllisonFroh: Attilio GlaserLoge: Thomas BlondelleAlberich: Markus BrückMime: Ya-Chung HuangFasolt: Andrew HarrisFafner: Tobias KehrerFricka: Annika SchlichtFreia: Flurina StuckiErda: Judit KutasiWoglinde: Valeriia SavinskaiaWellgunde: Arianna ManganelloFloßhilde: Karis TuckerDIE WALKÜRESiegmund: Brandon JovanovichHunding: Tobias KehrerWotan: Iain PatersonSieglinde: Elisabeth TeigeFricka: Annika SchlichtBrünnhilde: Nina StemmeHelmwige: Flurina StuckiGerhilde: Aile AsszonyiOrtlinde: Antonia Ahyoung KimWaltraute: Simone SchröderSiegrune: Ulrike HelzelRoßweiße: Karis TuckerGrimgerde: Anna LapkovskajaSchwertleite: Beth TaylorHundinglin: Eric NaumannSIEGFRIEDSiegfried: Clay HilleyMime: Ya-Chung HuangDer Wanderer: Iain PatersonAlberich: Jordan ShanahanFafner: Tobias KehrerErda: Judit KutasiBrünnhilde: Nina StemmeEin Waldvogel: Soloist from the boys’ choir of Chorakademie DortmundGÖTTERDÄMMERUNGSiegfried: Clay HilleyGunther: Thomas LehmanAlberich: Jordan ShanahanHagen: Albert PesendorferBrünnhilde: Nina StemmeGutrune: Aile AsszonyiWaltraute: Okka von der DamerauErste Norn: Anna LapkovskajaZweite Norn: Karis TuckerDritte Norn: Aile AsszonyiWoglinde: Meechot MarreroWellgunde: Karis TuckerFloßhilde: Anna Lapkovskaja Never miss out on future posts by following us The blog is […]
2020-09-15 07:37:46
Orchestral showcase: Simon Rattle conducts Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen on LSO Live
[…] Janacek's Sinfonietta with Rattle conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in 2018. A taut account of the work which comes over well, though for me it is a work which simply has to be heard live. Leos Janacek (1854-1928) - The Cunning Little Vixen (1923) Janacek - SinfoniettaLucy Crowe - VixenGerald Finley - ForesterSophia Burgos - Fox, ChocholkaPeter Hoare - Schoolmaster, Cock, MosquitoJan Martinik - Parson, BadgerHanno Muller-Brachmann - HarastaPaulina Malefane - Forester's Wife, Owl, WoodpeckerAnna Lapkovskaja - Mrs Paskova, LapakJonah Halton - PasekIrene Hoogveld - JayPoppy Dawid, Inji Galliet-Jakoby, Saoirse Exelby, Maeve McAllister, Eben Watson, Olivia Solomou, Theo Smith - treble soloistsLondon Symphony OrchestraLondon Symphony ChorusLSO Discovery VoicesSimon Rattle (conductor)Recorded live at the Barbican, London, 27 & 29 June 2019, 18 & 19 September 2018LSO LIVE LSO0850 2CDs [63:09, 56:28] Support Planet Hugill by buying this from Amazon. Elsewhere on this blog A one-man Paradise Lost […]
2019-10-16 13:11:00
Katya Kabanova, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 12 October 2019
Katěrina Kabanova – Eva-Maria Westbroek Marfa Ignatěvna Kabanicha – Karita Mattila Varvara – Anna Lapkovskaja Boris Grigorjevič – Simon O’Neill Váňa Kudrjáš – Florian Hoffmann Tichon Ivanyč Kabanov – Stephan Rügamer Savël Prokofjevič Dikoj – Pavlo Hunka Kuligin, Passer-by – Viktor Rud Glaša – Emma Sarkisyan Fekluša – Adriane Queiroz Woman – Liane Oßwald Andrea Breth (director) Annette Murschetz (set designs) Silke Willrett, Marc Weeger (costumes) Alexander Koppelmann (lighting) Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright) Staatskapelle Berlin Thomas Guggeis (conductor) Katya Kabanova (Eva-Maria Westbroek)Images: Bernd Uhlig, from the 2014 premiere Given the success of Andrea Breth’s Berlin Staatsoper production of Wozzeck, it was perhaps not surprising to emerge from this Katya Kabanova feeling similarly drained. It had not previously occurred to me to consider the points of affinity between these two tragic operatic masterpieces of similar length, written at a similar […]
2019-10-03 06:55:22
This revival of Guy Cassiers’ Ring cycle marks the first production of Wagner’s wondrous and epic work at Staatsoper Berlin since this historic theatre on Unter der Linden reopened a couple of years ago following seven years of intensive and detailed refurbishment
Wagner: Siegfried - Staatsoper Berlin (Photo Monika Rittershaus) Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen: Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Ekaterina Gubanova, Anja Kampe, Anna Lapkovskaja, Anna Larsson, Evelin Novak, Simon O’Neill, Stephan Rügamer, Serena Sáenz, Matti Salminen, Anna Samuil, Andreas Schager, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Natalia Skrycka, Falk Struckmann, Roman Trekel, Michael Volle, dir. Guy Cassiers; Staatskapelle Berlin, cond. Daniel Barenboim; Staatsoper Berlin Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 21-29 September 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) First presented in the 2013-14 season, this Ring cycle (a co-production with Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Toneelhuis Antwerp) was vividly created by 1960s-born Belgian-Flemish director Guy Cassiers and greatly endorsed by a strong visual presence conjured up by lighting designer Enrico Bagnoli and video designers Arjen Klerkx and Kurt D’HaeseleerOur roving correspondent Tony Cooper experiences Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen at Staatsoper Berlin (21-29 September 2019) directed by Guy Cassiers with Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Ekaterina Gubanova, […]
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