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2024-03-28
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2024-02-19 11:00:15
On this day in 1914 Zandonai‘s Francesca da Rimini premiered in Turin
2024-01-30 07:50:00
Back with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden
[…] fact that she is mentally broken. The recognition scene was powerful rather than touching, and the end, when it came, felt like sort of triumph. As with the finest Elektra performances, this did not feel like a performance but the singer incarnating the character.Sara Jakubiak is one of those singers who throw themselves wholeheartedly into a role; we saw her in 2023 at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin in another Christof Loy production, Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini [see my review]. Her Chrysothemis was glamorous, yes, but also powerful and feisty. Jakubiak made her restless and almost angry at times, chafing at her confinement, with Jakubiak's richly upholstered voice adding an extra dramatic quotient to the role. This was a thrilling performance that wonderfully matched Stemme, so that their scenes together really bristled with emotions, and Stemme was brilliant at the unsaid, the physical response to Jakubiak's vivid articulation of Chrysothemis' emotions.Strauss: […]
2024-01-01 11:16:00
A time to look back
The late Keel Watson as Wotan in Wagner's Die Walküre with Regents Opera in 2023 (Photo: Steve GregsonNew Year is always a time to look back and remember. 2023 saw us publishing 627 articles, from our review of the Dunedin Consort's 2022 New Year's Eve concert at Wigmore Hall to our note about Adam Whitmore and Phoenix Consort's crowdfunding for their debut disc of music by Alex Campkin. A total of 70 opera reviews, over 80 concert reviews, and over 40 interviews. You can explore further in our recently updated archives of live reviews, record reviews, and interviews.Overseas events that we covered included Le piano symphonique festival in Lucerne, Britten's Peter Grimes in Paris, Handel's Saul at the Komische Oper Berlin, Christoph Loy's production of Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carmen at Oper im Steinbruch in Austria, the launch of the Dresden Music Festival's historically informed Ring cycle with […]
2023-12-29 08:43:00
2023 in Opera and Music Theatre: historically informed Berlioz & Wagner, dramatic Handel, a G&S rarity, RVW, Zandonai in Berlin, new Jonathan Dove
[…] Opera Story presented Dani Howard and Joseph Spence's The Yellow Wallpaper, and Rania Chrysostomou & Sarah Parkin's On Being Vocal featured at Tête à TêteOpera North pops up twice on our list with a gripping production of Puccini's Tosca and David Pountney's quirky Purcellian, The Masque of Might.Rarities included Massenet's Le Roi de Lahore at Dorset Opera, Vaughan Williams' The Pilgrim's Progress from British Youth Opera at the Three Choirs Festival and Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, plus Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims and Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia from English Touring Opera.Riccardo Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini - Sara Jakubiak, Jonathan Tetelman - Deutsche Oper Berlin (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)Read our full selection of 2023 opera and music theatre performances below:A remarkable sense of energy & engagement: Wagner's Die Walküre from the London Opera Company at St John's Smith SquarePlenty of food for thought & some terrific singing: Oliver […]
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