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Munich Opera Festival (2) - Semele, 18 July 2023
PrinzregententheaterSemele – Brenda RaeJupiter – Michael SpyresApollo – Jonas HackerAthamas – Jakub Józef OrlińskiJuno – Emily D’AngeloIno – Nadezhda KaryazinaIris – Jessica NilesCadmus, Somnus – Philippe SlyHigh Priest – Milan SiljanovClaus Guth (director) Michael Levine (designs) Gesine Völlm (costumes) Michael Bauer (lighting) rocafilm (video) Ramses Sigl (choreography) Yvonne Gebauer, Christopher Warmuth (dramaturgy) Bavarian State Orchestra LauschWerk (chorus director: Sonja Lachenmayr) Gianluca Capuano (conductor) Images: Monika Rittershaus I was sceptical, I admit, for the first two acts of Claus Guth’s new production of Semele, but it came together and offered an anthropological and psychoanalytical interpretation of Handel’s opera such as I have not encountered before. It is not really my way of thinking, but that is neither here nor there. And what I had initially seen as a disappointingly ‘stylish’ (that is, stylish, but not much more) production, rather in the manner of Christof Loy, albeit with suggestions of something closer […]
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2020-08-20 16:07:48
Bartoli casts Terfel, Kaufmann and Harteros in Tosca
This year, Cecilia Bartoli saw her Salzburg Spring Festival silenced by Covid. Today, she announced details of the 2021 event. Robert Carsen will direct Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo. Gianluca Capuano will conduct Les Musiciens de Prince-Monaco in this and in La clemenza di Tito. A concert performance of Tosca will feature Anja Harteros, Jonas […]
2019-05-04 19:05:02
The opening round candidates have been announced for the 2019 il Piccolo Violino Magico International Competition – to be held in San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy from the 3rd to 7th of July, 2019. The opening round candidates are: Toma Arakawa (Japan) Miryam Capuano (Italy) Ilva Eigus (Switzerland) Teo Gertler (Slovakia) Madeline Goh (Singapore) Mateusz Izdebski (Poland) Theodor Kaskiv (France) […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..