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On this day in 1991 soprano Deborah Voigt made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Amelia.
2022-11-11 23:30:00
Callas-lite
But of course we were at this season's opening night at the Met. Sieglinde has been a stalwart of our diva Sondra Radvanovsky since we've heard her as Serving Woman in Elektra in the late 1990s, back in the day when Gabriele Schnaut, in the title role, molested our eardrums with daggers while Deborah Voigt, a hefty Chrysothemis, soothed the pain with cream. (Oh those were the days of yore ...) OK, we jest: you don't care about Serving Women, and neither do we. Anyway, Sondra quietly rose through other minor roles, through Musetta, and then to Luisa Miller, her first serious top bill which we scarcely remember because the opera itself is (don't hate us!) a snoozefest. Her Leonora in Il Trovatore in 2000 (more than two decades ago!) marked a turn towards stardom. Those performances predate these Diaries so we can't provide blow-by-blow details, but what we remember was […]
2022-07-22 06:51:00
Glenarm Festival of Voice
Northern Ireland Opera returns to the village of Glenarm on the North coast of Northern Ireland for the first time since 2019 for the 12th Glenarm Festival of Voice which runs from 26 to 28 August 2022. Five opera singers have been selected as finalists from applications received from across the island of Ireland. They will compete for the Deborah Voigt Opera Prize, the Audience Prize and the Song Prize by performing arias, ensemble pieces and Irish art songs in front of an audience and a judging panel.This year's finalists are Hannah O’Brien (soprano), Heather Sammon (mezzo-soprano), Michael Bell (tenor), Owen Lucas (tenor), David Kennedy (baritone) and the Peter Rankin Piano Intern for 2022 is Doireann O’Carroll.The team who will coach the finalists includes Kathryn Harries, Dr Ingrid Surgenor and pianist Simon Lepper. They will work with the finalists on their competition repertoire across the weekend in the build-up to the finale on […]
2021-10-04 06:43:32
'The more light-heartedly you can handle this, the better it would be' - Strauss, Hofmannsthal and Die ägyptische Helena
Richard Strauss' Die ägyptische Helena at La Scala, Milan in 2019 with Ricarda Merbeth as Helena Despite his virtues as an opera librettist, concision and clarity of plot were not Hugo von Hofmannsthal's strong points. His ideas behind Die Frau ohne Schatten, the collaboration with Richard Strauss which premiered at the Vienna State Opera in 1919, arose out of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, but the resulting opera became one of the largest and taxing in the repertoire, with performances developing into real occasions. The strange thing is that their subsequence collaboration, Die ägyptische Helena (1928), which has a similarly complex mythic plot and challenging solo parts, is so rarely performed that rather than being an occasion, the performance becomes a red-letter day. Whilst Covent Garden managed to put on concert performances of Die ägyptische Helena (at the Royal Festival Hall in 1998 with Deborah Voigt as Helena), the palm for creating […]
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