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2018-01-18 21:43:37
In this June 21, 2013, file photo, Jonas Kaufmann, right, in the role of Manrico and Elena Manistina as Azucena sing during a dress rehearsal for the opera "Il Trovatore" by Giuseppe Verdi in the Bavarian State Opera House in Munich, southern Germany. The world's most sought-after tenor is back in the United States after a four-year absence caused mostly by illness but partly by a desire to spend more time with his children.
2016-12-06 14:29:56
The naked truth
Highlights of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-2020 season will include the company premiere of Glass’s Akhnaten featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo and first local Turandot of Anna Netrebko (not pictured), according the always intriguing Met Future Wiki. More recently added data includes, in 2017-2018: Ekaterina Semenchuk as Santuzza; debuts of Etienne Dupuis and Luis Chapa; returns of Markus Werba, Elchin Azizov and Elena Manistina and possibly Doris Soffel as Klytamnestra. In 2018-2019 we an expect a centenary Trittico in late fall featuring Marcelo Alvarez as Luigi; Edith Haller‘s debut as Gutrune; the return of Karel Mark Chichon and the debuts of Cornelius Meister and Omar Meir Wellber. Further plans for 2019-2020 (previously revealed) include new productions of Porgy and Bess with Eric Owens, Aida (Anna Netrebko), The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh (Dmitri Tcherniakov), Der Fliegende Holländer (François Girard) and Wozzeck (William Kentridge.) Photo: Craig T. Mathew / LA Opera […]
2015-12-13 00:47:00
Prurient Prokofiev Fiery Angel Bayerische Staatsoper
[…] personality like Ruprecht gets sucked int the maelstrom ? Listen to the orchestra, though, for the music makes madness seem quite plausible. Jurowski is in his element. He's more elegant than Gergiev, and wilder than the eminently sensible Neeme Järvi, though you need to hear all three. The Fiery Angel is Prokofiev's Faust. Hence the litany of occult mumbo-jumbo that explodes in the First Act, heralding the entry of the Fortune Teller (Elena Manistina) a gorgeous camp caricature who disappears for the rest of the opera. This occultist laundry list tumbles out of the score like madcap music : cthe composer isn't bothered what they means, because they sound good, as words. Later, when renata (Svetlana Sozdateleva ) and Ruprecht (evgeny Nikitin) think they've summunoed up a spirit, loud knocks burst forth from the orchestra in almost joyous delirium, as if Prokofiev is suggesting that the gullible […]
2015-09-28 19:43:13
Blue light special
[…] Stage Direction: Robert Carsen With Amber Wagner, Brenda Rae, Alice Coote, Peter Seiffert a.o. November 15, 2015 Arrigo Boito Mefistofele (New Production) Musical Direction: Omer Meir Wellber Stage Direction: Roland Schwab With René Pape, Joseph Calleja, Kristine Opolais a.o. December 12, 2015 Sergej Prokofjew The Fiery Angel (New Production) Musical Direction: Vladimir Jurowski Stage Direction: Barrie Kosky With Evgeny Nikitin, Evelyn Herlitzius, Elena Manistina a.o. March 19, 2016 Giuseppe Verdi Un ballo in maschera (New Production) Musical Direction: Zubin Mehta Stage Direction: Johannes Erath With Piotr Beczala, Simon Keenlyside, Anja Harteros, a.o. June 12, 2016 Marius Petipa / Ivan Liška Le Corsaire Musical Direction: Aivo Välja Soloists and corps de ballet of the Bavarian State Ballet June 26, 2016 Fromental Halévy La Juive (New Production) Musical […]
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