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2023-11-09 06:10:00
Thoughts on Lohengrin
Judit Kutasi as OrtrudAct 2, LohengrinPhoto: Cory Weaver/San Francisco OperaSince the SFO Lohengrin opened, I've been thinking a fair amount about the opera and some of the details in; also, having the odd second thought about my review. I should have praised Simon O'Neill more than I did; he sang tirelessly and musically in a solid and Wagnerian-sized voice. I realize that I have internalized an ideal Lohengrin and he's not it.You will understand this when I mention that my previous three Lohengrins were:Ben Heppner, who had a great voice and was an excellent physical actor.Brandon Jovanovich, who has a beautiful voice, is tall and handsome, and has a natural and confident masculinity. Honestly, this makes him just the kind of guy I would want to turn up to defend me if I had been falsely accused of murdering my brother.Klaus Florian Vogt, who is handsome in a completely different way from […]
2022-08-25 14:00:18
I had too much to dream last night
Trove Thursday previews next week’s BBC Proms presentation of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius with a 2008 broadcast conducted by Colin Davis with Sarah Connolly, Ben Heppner and Gerald Finley.
2022-03-08 17:28:00
[…] budget of under $500,000, according to the 990 forms that I glanced at this weekend, and yet they've managed to stage a production of Verdi's Otello - a problem opera if ever there was one - that I found more dramatically cogent and just plain exciting than the last two bring-ups at San Francisco Opera, a company that spends roughly $1 million per performance. I mean, those productions had issues. The 2002 production was announced with Ben Heppner singing the title role. He withdrew and was replaced by four tenors, each singing from one to four and a fraction performances. Yes, really: Jon Fredric West dropped out of the performance of October 26 after one act, with Antonio Barasorda singing acts 2, 3, and 4. I caught Vladimir Galouzine and remember him sounding vocally clumsy. Sergei Leiferkus, a wonderful singer in the right repertory, was badly miscast as Jago; he had the trill […]
2021-10-27 03:00:00
Berlioz: Les Troyens (Sir Colin Davis)
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) Les Troyens Ben Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis (conductor) 2014, Flac Files
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