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2022-10-08 01:59:00
Three Strikes and You're Out, Gene.
[…] more than in Tosca. And the music, really, is masterly, beautiful, well-put-together, autumnal. Tchaikovsky knew what he was doing.Friends clued me in to why I haven't been wowed by the opera: a series of competent baritones singing Onegin who just aren't compelling enough to persuade me that Tatyana would be instantly infatuated. To name them: Anthony Michaels-Moore in 1997 (I do not think that I saw David Okerlund...), Russell Braun in 2004, and now Gordon Bintner.I will own that it's possible that one issue is that for all of these performances, I was pretty far from the stage: in the balcony in 1997 and 2004, in the dress circle this year. But the singers playing Olga, Lensky, and Filipyevna came across loud and clear, vocally and emotionally, this year, and so I'm going to blame Michaels-Moore, Braun, and Bintner for smaller-than-life performances in a role that needs a big performance.My […]
2022-01-20 02:48:00
[…] the new Prioress; Michaela Schuster (Madame de Croissy, the Old Prioress), Melody Moore as Mere Marie, Deanna Breiwick as Sister Constance. Ben Bliss returns as the Chevalier de la Force. Eun Sun Kim conducts. A great opera that hasn't been done here since 1982. Two operas in styles not heard in a number of years Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky, Robert Carsen's production, which is supposed to be very beautiful. Evgenia Muraveva as Tatyana, Gordon Bintner as Onegin, Evan LeRoy Johnson (Lensky), Aigul Akhmetshina (Olga), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Prince Gremin). Vassilis Christopoulos conducts. in his American debut. Orpheus and Eurydice, Gluck, new SFO production. This will be the third production of this opera that I've seen in the last several years. Matthew Ozawa directs; his Fidelio was superb, so I have high hopes. Jakub Józef Orliński as Orpheus, Christina Gansch as Eurydice, Nicole Heaston as Amor. Peter Whelan from the Irish Baroque Orchestra […]
2018-10-06 16:16:17
INTERVIEW | Gordon Bintner Wants Onegin To Be One Of His Signature Roles
2018-09-26 07:00:00
Gordon Bintner aims for decency in title role in Canadian Opera Company’s Eugene Onegin - Toronto Star
Toronto StarBass-baritone makes his case for kindness in the Russian aristocrat.
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