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2024-02-15 10:28:00
Madama Butterfly, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 14 February 2024
Cio-Cio-San – Sonya Yoncheva Suzuki – Natalia Skrycka Kate Pinkerton – Rebecka Wallroth Pinkerton – Stefan Pop Sharpless – Carles Pachon Goro – Gonzalo Quinchahual Prince Yamadori – Taehan Kim Uncle Bonze – Grigory Shkarupa Commissioner – Dionysios Avgerinos Cio-Cio-San’s Mother – Verena Allertz Aunt – Michèle Cusson Uncle – Insoo Hwoang Child – Carl BeymeDirector – Eike GramssRevival director – Marcin ŁakomickiDesigns – Peter SykoraLighting – Irene SelkaStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinDomingo Hindoyan (conductor)Images (from the 1991 premiere): Gianmarco Bresadola Happy St Valentine’s Day! Ash Wednesday and an opera about sex tourism. Whatever we might think about the latter two, many will agree that the coincidence is well deserved by the pseudo-feast of heart-shaped balloons and ‘special menus’ at three times the price, a third of the culinary quality. In retrospect, or rather more or less as soon as I had arrived, I could not help but […]
2024-01-08 16:07:00
Catching up, January 2024
[…] and musical, and his attempts to synthesize music and color didn’t age well (especially in his orchestral output), but his piano music is still played very often and is of the highest quality. Among other anniversaries: Francis Poulenc’s 125th was celebrated on January 7th (he was born in 1899). Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, who died tragically young, aged 26, from tuberculosis, but left us a tremendous Stabat Mater and a brilliant intermezzo La serva padrona (Sonya Yoncheva is great as Serpina in this production), was born in a small town of Jesi, Italy, on January 4th of 1710.
2024-01-08 14:00:16
Siam giunte, F.B. Pinkerton
Before some important Madama Butterfly sopranos dominate the American scene in early 2024, Chris’s Cache offers live recordings of four vintage Cio-Cio-Sans, plus a brand new one: Renata Scotto; Galina Vishnevskaya, Anna Moffo, Gilda Cruz-Romo–and Sonya Yoncheva.
2023-12-04 10:18:47
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolThe Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s chief conductor’s wife, Sonya Yoncheva, was an exquisite and ideal soloist for Chausson’s song cycle that was the centrepiece of this focused and appealing concertLove, death, and the ocean: Ernest Chausson’s Poème de l’Amour et de la Mer began its 10-year gestation in the wake of the composer’s visit to Bayreuth for the premiere of Wagner’s Parsifal, but it wears its debt to Tristan und Isolde shimmeringly on its sleeve; a French impressionist spin on that dark and stormy cocktail. Programming the two side by side might have run the risk of anticlimax in every sense, but this concert by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic had the opposite effect, a vivid, focused performance – not to mention a starry soloist – ensuring Chausson’s bittersweet song cycle held its own as a centrepiece.The Wagner came first, the undulating Prelude and ecstatic Liebestod embodying all of Tristan’s heady […]
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