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2024-03-28 15:57:00
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Semperoper Dresden, 27 March 2024
Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Miina-Liisa Värelä (Baraks Frau), Komparserie; all images © Semperoper Dresden/Ludwig OlahEmperor – Eric Cutler Empress – Camilla Nylund Nurse – Evelyn Herlitzius Spirit-Messenger – Andreas Bauer Kanabas Barak – Oleksandr Pushniak Dyer’s Wife – Mina-Liisa Värelä Apparition of Youth – Martin Mitterrutzner Voice of the Falcon – Lea-ann Dunbar Voice from Above – Christa Mayer Guardian of the Threshold of the Temple – Nikola Hillebrand The One-Eyed – Rafael Fingerlos The One-Armed – Tilmann Rönnebeck The Hunchback – Tansel Akzeyebek Children’s Voices – Nikola Hillebrand, Sofia Savenko, Lea-ann Dunbar, Stephanie Atanasov, Dominika Škrabalová, Michal Doron Servants – Bryndis Gudjonsdottir, Sofia Savenko, Dominika ŠkrabalováDirector – David BöschSet designs – Patrick BannwartCostumes – Moana StembergerLighting – Fabio AntociVideo – Falko Herold, Patrick BannwartDramaturgy – Johann Casimir EuleChildren’s Chorus (director: Claudia Sebastian-Bertsch) of the Semperoper Dresden Chorus (director: André Kellinghaus) of the Semperoper DresdenSächsische Staatskapelle DresdenChristian Thielemann (conductor) […]
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2023-10-04 06:42:00
Offenbach's La princesse de Trébizonde from Opera Rara performed with wit & style, you can't help but be drawn in & have as much fun as the performers
Offenbach: La princesse de Trébizonde; Anne-Catherine Gillet, Virginie Verrez, Antoinette Dennefeld, Josh Lovell, Christophe Mortagne, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Daniel; Opera RaraA new edition, a performance that combines wit and charm, character and style, a cast clearly having great fun and making us do so to. This is prime Offenbach, from the centre of his career and full of all your favourite numbers that you didn't knowOffenbach's operetta La princesse de Trébizonde dates from 1869, a period shortly before the Franco-Prussian war of 1870 (when the composer and his family retired to Spain) that includes such works as La Périchole, Vert-Vert, and Les brigands. These are comic operettas where the satire is far less barbed than in his earlier works. Whilst Étienne Tréfeu and Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter's text does make occasional points, such as the circus performers puzzlement at the idea of living on one place, or the elements of social comedy involved in […]
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