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2017-04-13 15:02:32
Mountain high, valley low
[…] dance floor. Schirrmacher was first rate, too, in the long final scene when he climbs the mountain to the shack to which Wally has retreated – only to have her perish in an avalanche before they can be united, rather like Tristan awaiting a possibly hallucinatory Isolde (which I daresay was Catalani’s inspiration). In this production, and I’m not sure how much this was librettist Luigi Illica’s idea or a brainstorm of the director, Aron Stiehl, Wally is going mad from solitude and despair, and Hagenbach, an apparition in white (every costume in the production had hitherto been some shade of gray, from dove to charcoal), is singing the adoring words any lonely lover would crave. The climax, then (slightly fudged at the Volksoper), is simply the end of her life, her last conscious instant, Schirrmacher’s voice ringing in her ears. He was very Italian (though singing in German). Not […]
2015-01-09 17:20:00
Wagner Das Liebesverbot Trieste, Lohengrin Amsterdam
Wagner Das Liebesverbot at the Teatro Verdi, Trieste reviewed HERE in Opera Today "Aron Stiehl’s production of this rare early Wagner opera cheerfully brings commedia dell’arte to La Cage aux Folles.At the outset it should be said that as Das Liebesverbot has so seldom been staged since its disastrous premiere in Magdeburg nearly 180 years ago, this was more a case of re-birth than resurrection. Reportedly after word had got around that the opera was echt Abfall, only three people turned up to the second performance and Richard Wagner (who was 23 at the time) virtually disowned his own composition and insisted that it must never be performed in the sacred Bayreuth Festspielhaus" MORE HERE Lohengrin in Amsterdam - Juliane Banse, Nikolai Schukoff MORE HERE IN OPERA TODAY
2012-02-11 01:03:35
[…] Oper Leipzig on 16 February, 24 February, 7 April, 20 April and 24 May 2013, followed by a concert version at Bayreuth on 9 July. Ulf Schirmer conducts, Renaud Doucet directs, and the cast includes Milcho Borovinov, Jennifer Porto and Arnold Bezuyen. Das Liebesverbot is premiered in Bayreuth on 8, 11 and 14 July 2013, with further performances in Leipzig in the 2013 - 2014 season (dates not yet disclosed). Constantin Trinks conducts, Aron Stiehl directs, and Milcho Borovinov and Martin Petzold are amongst the cast. Rienzi comes to Bayreuth on 7, 10 and 13 July 2013. Christian Thielemann conducts and Matthias von Stegmann directs. Hardworking Milcho Borovinov turns up yet again, together with the excellent Daniela Sindram and Jennifer Wilson. Robert Dean Smith takes on the title role. There's also a starry 200th birthday concert at the Festspielhaus on 22 May 2013. Eva-Maria Westbroek, Johan Botha […]
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