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2024-02-19 17:22:00
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 16 February 2024
Count Almaviva – Siyabonga Maqungo Doctor Bartolo – Renato Girolami Rosina – Marina Viotti Don Basilio – Grigory Shkarupa Berta – Adriane Queiroz Figaro – Samuel Hasselhorn Fiorillo – Dionysios Averginos Ambrosio, Notary – Florian Eckhardt Officer – Wolfgang BiebuyckDirector – Ruth BerghausDesigns – Achim FreyerRevival director – Katharina LangStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinIdo Arad (conductor)Images (from 2010): Monika Rittershaus I see that, in London, Jonathan Miller’s 1987 ENO production of The Barber of Seville is receiving another outing. It seems positively modern, though, at least when it comes to years and performances on the clock, when compared with Ruth Berghaus’s 1968 staging for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, first seen a little less than midway between the declaration of the German Democratic Republic and the fall of the Berlin Wall and now past 350 outings. In one of these near-miracles impossible fully to explain, though, Berghaus’s production seems […]
2023-11-12 04:01:00
[…] melody for soloist in compound meter. Each progresses to increasingly busy passagework with relentless sixteenth notes, and each ends with the opening melody in solo winds while the soloist decorates with graceful, perpetual motion flourishes. [Worth noting it's pretty unusual for a concerto first movement to begin and end softly/slowly.] I mentioned this to a couple of musician friends, and one (a violist) sent me a link to this remarkable article by the violist Atar Arad who makes a compelling case that Prokofiev's 1923 concerto served as a sort of hidden model for Walton's 1929 work. I'll leave it to you to read the article (which has some very detailed analysis) and follow up on these connections, but again, what was most interesting to me is that the dots connected naturally for me simply by playing the two pieces within the same hour. In addition to the openings, you could compare […]
All the conducting master class
2023-04-17 22:00:51
Conducting and Interpretation Masterclass with Maestro Benjamin Zander at the Arad International Masterclasses (August 14-19)
“Music is the most powerful and precise language for the human emotions that have ever been devised… Our job is to be the masters of that language.” Ben Zander Arad International Masterclasses is pleased to present the Conducting and Interpretation Masterclass with maestro Benjamin Zander. Maestro Zander’s masterclasses are widely seen and well praised all […]
All the conducting master class
2023-03-25 06:05:18
06 – 19 Aug, 2023 We are thrilled to present the programme for the summer 2023 of Arad International Masterclasses, which will take place in the Romanian city of Arad from the 6th to the 19th of August. In the first week (6-12/8), we will host Andrei Gavrilov (piano); in the second week (13-19/8), we […]
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