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Madama Butterfly, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 14 February 2024
Cio-Cio-San – Sonya Yoncheva Suzuki – Natalia Skrycka Kate Pinkerton – Rebecka Wallroth Pinkerton – Stefan Pop Sharpless – Carles Pachon Goro – Gonzalo Quinchahual Prince Yamadori – Taehan Kim Uncle Bonze – Grigory Shkarupa Commissioner – Dionysios Avgerinos Cio-Cio-San’s Mother – Verena Allertz Aunt – Michèle Cusson Uncle – Insoo Hwoang Child – Carl BeymeDirector – Eike GramssRevival director – Marcin ŁakomickiDesigns – Peter SykoraLighting – Irene SelkaStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinDomingo Hindoyan (conductor)Images (from the 1991 premiere): Gianmarco Bresadola Happy St Valentine’s Day! Ash Wednesday and an opera about sex tourism. Whatever we might think about the latter two, many will agree that the coincidence is well deserved by the pseudo-feast of heart-shaped balloons and ‘special menus’ at three times the price, a third of the culinary quality. In retrospect, or rather more or less as soon as I had arrived, I could not help but […]
2023-10-04 10:29:00
Il trittico, Deutsche Oper, 30 September 2023
[…] Ciesca – Arianna ManganelloMaestro Spinelloccio – Jörg SchörnerSer Amantio di Noclao – Markus BrückPinellino – Christian SimmonsGuccio – Gerard FarrerasBuoso Donati – Derrick AmantidisPinar Karabulut (director)Michela Flück (designs)Teresa Vergho (costumes)Carsten Rüger (lighting)Dorothea Hartmann (dramaturgy)Children’s Chorus (director: Christian Lindhorst) of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (director: Christian Lindhorst)Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (director: Jeremy Bines) Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinJohn Fiore (conductor)IL TRITTICO von Giacomo Puccini, Premiere am 30 September 2023, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Eike Walkenhorst (Suor Angelica) Integral performances of Puccini’s Il trittico, first seen and heard at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 1918, have seemed to gain in popularity of late. In recent years, I have seen two different productions in London (Covent Garden and Holland Park) as well as last year’s Salzburg Festival staging. The problem is largely one of cost, I suspect: to stage three operas, with decidedly different casting requirements, in a single evening […]
2022-04-06 08:01:47
New head of classical music, new resident ensembles: Southbank Centre launches its 2022/23 season
[…] to 25 September features a positive cornucopia of events including Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in John Adams with soloist Víkingur Ólafsson, plus music by Anna Clyne and Mahler organist Iveta Apkalna, principal organist of the Elbphilharmonie, plays the RFH organ pianists Graham Fitkin, Kathryn Stott, Clare Hammond and Ruth Wall perform music for eight hands including Steve Reich, Unsuk Chin, John Adams, Anna Meredith, and a new work by Fitkin Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene with Mary Bevan present one of their Alehouse Sessions Pararochestra performs Steve Reich Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder the Manchester Collective presents a multimedia production by Michael Gordon the weekend ends with the Philharmonia Orchestra and violinist Caroline Widmann in Korngold's Violin Concerto, plus music by George Walker and Mahler, whilst cellist Abel Selaocoe begins his residency with a concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. […]
2021-11-19 09:24:43
From a puppet 'Liederspiel' to men behaving badly: Thomas Guthrie and Barokksolistene at Temple Music
The Alehouse Session - Thomas Guthrie, Bjarte Eike and Barokksolistene in Oslo (Photo Knut Utler) Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, The Alehouse Sessions; Thomas Guthrie, Bjarte Eike, Barokksolistene; Temple Music at Middle Temple Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 18 November 2021 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) A very free interpretation of Schubert's song cycle which returned the work to its roots, and an evocation of a 17th century alehouse in an evening which by turns dazzled the imagination and frustrated.Last night's Temple Music concert at Middle Temple Hall brought together several different strands with director and baritone Thomas Guthrie at their centre. Guthrie's association with Middle Temple goes back to when he sang with Temple Church Choir, and more recently he has directed such events as Purcell's The Fairy Queen there. Guthrie also has a long association with Bjarte Eike's Barokksolistene, performing with them as singer and violinist in […]
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