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[…] 2019. It’s now making its final bow following a four-year tenure on the Grüner Hügel. Surprisingly, no other work in the Wagner canon has received such few productions. By the way, Kratzer made his Bayreuth début with this production which, I feel, has lost none of its shine or momentum since I attended its première. And I’m pleased to say that it was well received by the cognoscenti of the Grüner Hügel as opposed to Sebastian Baumgarten’s realization which received a chorus of disapproval from the army of traditionally-minded Wagnerites. Wagner: Tannhäuser - Klaus Floria Vogt, Ekaterina Gubanova - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Primarily based on the Pilgrims’ Chorus and partly on the contrasting music of the orgies in the court of Venus, the overture - summarising the theme of the whole story focusing on the struggle between sacred and profane love and redemption through love, a theme running […]
2022-02-04 00:35:29
Mapping Black dignity: Kennedy Center launches "Cartography Project” today; "Cartography’s" first installment features "The Road Ahead" by Carlos Simon
[…] March 15 & 16, 2022The REACH, Studio K Live world premieres of first eight commissions, performed by WNO singers and members of NSO and WNO Orchestra The Road AheadCarlos SIMON, music; Marc BAMUTHI JOSEPH, libretto and spoken word(WNO commission)With Katerina Burton, soprano; Karen Lowry-Tucker, violin; Amy Frost Baumgarten, cello; Robert Ainsley, piano Anthem for GOJessica MAYS, music(NSO commission; Aurora, CO)With Heather LeDoux Green & Jane Bowyer Stewart, violins; Eric deWaardt, viola; David Teie, cello; Jeffrey Weisner, double bass; Scott Christian, percussion Ahead of TimeNathaniel HEYDER, music(NSO commission; Cleveland, OH)With Paul Cigan, clarinet; Robert Rearden, horn; Jennifer Mondie, viola; Britton Riley, cello; Scott Christian, percussion Breonna’s LullabyDerek Douglas CARTER, music(NSO commission; Louisville, KY)With Paul Cigan, clarinet; Ruth Wicker, viola; Paul DeNola, bass; Jiyoung Oh, […]
2019-08-15 15:53:00
Bayreuth Festival (4) - Tannhäuser, 13 August 2019
Festspielhaus Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia – Stephen Milling Tannhäuser – Stephen Gould Wolfram von Eschenbach – Markus Eiche Walther von der Vogelweide – Daniel Behle Biterolf – Kay Stiefermann Heinrich der Schreiber – Jorge Rodriguez-Norton Reinmar von Zweter – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Elisabeth – Lise Davidsen Venus – Elena Zhidkova Young Shepherd – Katharina Konradi Four Pages – Cornelia Ragg, Lucila Graham, Annette Gutjahr, Elena Zhidkova Le Gateau Chocolat – Le Gateau Chocolat Oskar – Manni Laudenbach Tobias Kratzer (director) Rainer Sellmaier (designs) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Manuel Braun (video) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Christian Thielemann (conductor) Eight years after I last saw Tannhäuser at Bayreuth, in Sebastian Baumgarten’s truly bizarre production, came the highlight, for me at least, of this year’s Festival: Tobias Kratzer’s new staging, conducted not by Valery Gergiev, as […]
2019-08-15 07:08:52
Surprisingly, Tannhäuser has received only a handful of productions at the Bayreuth Festival and this new production by Tobias Kratzer chalks up its ninth outing
[…] Festival (seen 13 August 2019) featured Stephen Gould as Tannhäuser, Markus Eiche as Wolfram, Lise Davidsen as Elisabeth and Elena Zhidkova as Venus, conducted by Christian Thielemann. By the way, this production of Tannhäuser (which received its première in Dresden on 19th October 1845) is only the ninth to be staged at the Bayreuth Festival and, surprisingly, no other work in the Bayreuth canon has received such fewer productions. Following in the footsteps of Sebastian Baumgarten’s controversial production of Tannhäuser which received a chorus of disapproval from traditionally-minded Wagnerites, Mr Kratzer’s offering seemed just as biting but has found more acceptability among the cognoscenti of the Green Hill with a few boos here and there. But that’s to be expected at Bayreuth. Primarily based on the Pilgrims’ Chorus and partly on the contrasting music of the orgies in the court of Venus, the overture - summarising the theme of the […]
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