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San Francisco Opera 2023-24
War Memorial Opera House at DuskPhoto by Lisa HirschSF Opera announced its 2023-24 season the other day; herewith the lineup, with some comments. Parts of this were known in advance because SFO announced the three contemporary works in the season announcement for 2022-23, and they have indicated a plan for MD Eun Sun Kim to conduct one Verdi and one Wagner opera each season, leading up to an eventual Ring.Fall, 2023:Opening night gala concert, conducted by Music Director Kim, with tenor Roberto Alagna and soprano Aleksandra Kurzak. Verdi, Il Trovatore. Kim/Arturo Chacon-Cruz, Angel Blue, George Petean, Anita Rachvelishvili. David McVicar production, seen here in 2009. Classic barn (and baby) burner. I see two potential issues: Chacon-Cruz doesn't strike me as having the right kind of voice for Manrico, and Rachvelishvili has been cancelling a lot owing to some health problems. This is 8 months out, so we'll see. Bates, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. Michael Christie/John Moore (Steve Jobs), Sasha Cooke (Laureen […]
2017-10-22 00:40:00
Chamber Mahler Wagner Zermlinsky Lyric Symphony
Secession Orchestra dirigé par Clément Mao-Takacs à Royaumont (© DR)A very unusual concert last month at Royaumont in the L'Île-de-France,"Jardins d'amour", for all three pieces dealwith gardend, lushness and enchantment. - Mahler Blumine, Wagner Good Friday Music and Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony with the Secession Orchestra, conducted by Clément Mao-Takacs with soloists Stéphane Degout and Elsa Dreisig, now on France Musique. Royaumont, despite its royal connections was a Cistercian monastery, not quite the place for full scale Wagner, or Zemlinsky or Mahler, so this was an opportunity for close-up, detailed listening.It was also a good way to hear Mahler's orphan Blumine (1884) written as incidental music for the play Der Trompeter von Sakkingen, now lost. At first, he incorporated it into his Symphony no 1, but discarded it .It wasn't published together with the symphony, and was also thought lost until Donald Mitchell discovered the manuscript in 1967. Though it does […]
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