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German composer (1907-1995)
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2019-07-16 00:59:00
Alfred Walker in Korngold's "The Miracle of Heliane" at Bard SummerScape from July 26
Alfred Walker, Bass-Baritone Opera at Bard SummerScape 2019 Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957) The Miracle of Heliane (American premiere; new production) Libretto by Hans Müller-Einigen, after “The Saint” by Hans Kaltneker Sung in German with English supertitles American Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Leon Botstein, music director Directed by Christian Räth Bard Festival Chorale Set and costume designer: Esther Bialas Lighting designer: Thomas Hase Projection designer: Elaine McCarthy Movement Director: Catherine Galasso Heliane: Ausrine Stundyte, soprano Ruler: Alfred Walker, bass-baritone Stranger: Daniel Brenna, tenor Messenger: Jennifer Feinstein, mezzo-soprano Porter: Nicholas Brownlee, bass-baritone Blind Judge: David Cangelosi, tenor Judge No. 1: Derek Taylor, tenor Judge No. 2: Nathan Berg, bass-baritone Judge No. 3: Scott Conner, bass Judge No. 4: Richard Troxell, tenor Judge No. 5: Michael Hawk, tenor Judge No. 6: Kevin Thompson, bass Sosnoff Theater July 26* at 7:30pm July 28* at 2pm […]
2019-04-15 06:39:53
Barrie Kosky’s imaginative production of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story returns the musical to its harshness and explosive power
[…] it when it opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, in 1957. Neither had the West End when it arrived at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, in 1958, carrying its Broadway magic with it. The show was the talk of the town and I had the great pleasure of seeing it. A highly-impressive production, it was staged on a grand scale with a huge budget but Barrie Kosky’s production for Komische Oper (assisted by Esther Bialas who, incidentally, designed the costumes for ENO’s new production of The Merry Widow) was equally impressive and economical, too, in its staging.A well-drilled and well-disciplined dance ensemble (trained by choreographer, Otto Pichler) stamped its credentials on a fine and well-crafted production in which the moods and relationships erupted at the drop of a hat between the rival factions: the Italian-American gang, The Jets, led by Riff (Christoph Jonas) and the Puerto Rican gang, The […]
2019-03-02 11:35:25
The Merry Widow at English National Opera
[…] operettas by Gilbert & Sullivan, English National Opera has turned its attention to Austrian operetta and a new production of Franz Lehar's The Merry Widow debuted at the London Coliseum on 1 March 2019. The operetta has received a new book from April De Angelis (playwright and librettist of Jonathan Dove's Flight and lyrics from Richard Thomas (of Jerry Springer the Opera). Directed by Max Webster, with sets by Ben Stones and costumes by Esther Bialas, the production featured Sarah Tynan as Hanna, Nathan Gunn as Count Danilo, Andrew Shore as Baron Zeta, Rhian Lois as Valencienne, Robert Murray as Camille and Gerard Carey as Njegus. Kristiina Poska conducted. April de Angelis and Richard Thomas' new version discreetly updated the piece whilst keeping the original setting, some numbers received entirely new set-ups rather than being translations of the original, and the dialogue introduced a level of modish modernism to […]
2018-03-18 12:14:56
Coliseum, LondonAlan Opie injects true vocal class into director Daniel Kramer’s big old mess of a production There was a noise in the auditorium when the curtain went up on English National Opera’s new La Traviata: the sound of 4,000 eyebrows being raised simultaneously. Daniel Kramer’s production is his first here since taking over as the company’s artistic director, and it certainly makes a big impression. First staged in Basel last November, and designed by Lizzie Clachan (sets) and Esther Bialas (costumes), it opens with the kind of eyeful that UK opera-house budgets aren’t meant to stretch to any more: a big, glitzy party scene, with shiny walls stretching floor to ceiling. It might be a black-and-white ball in a very specialised nightclub. Lots of vaguely Edwardian men, having left their top hats in nifty lockers at the back, are in their vaguely Edwardian underwear, energetically engaging in variously camp forms […]
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