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2024-01-14 14:18:00
Die Zauberflöte, Deutsche Oper, 11 January 2024
Sarastro – Tobias Kehrer Tamino – Kieran Carrel Speaker – Padraic Rowan First Priest – Kyle Miller Second Priest – Jörg Schörner Queen of the Night – Hye-Young Moon Pamina – Elena Tsallagova First Lady – Flurina Stucki Second Lady – Arianna Manganello Third Lady – Davia Bouley Papagena – Meechot Marrero Papageno – Philipp Jekal Monostatos – Burkhard Ulrich First Armoured Man – Patrick Cook Second Armoured Man – Youngkwang Oh Three Boys – Soloists from the Children’s Choir of the Deutsche OperDirector – Günter KrämerRevival director – Gerlinde PelkowskiDesigns – Andreas ReinhardtChorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Thomas Richter) Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinGiulio Cilona (conductor)DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Bettina StößImages from 2008, with different cast Premiered on 24 September 1991, six days short of 200 years from the work’s first performance, Günther Krämer’s Magic Flute has done sterling service […]
2024-01-11 04:30:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (CD Review)
[…] many recordings with Les Siècles, the period-instrument orchestra that he founded. However, Roth has conducted many other orchestras, and in 2015, he was appointed Gürzenich Principal Conductor as well as General Music Director of the City of Cologne. In addition, the Gürzenich Orchestra, which was founded in 1827, has been associated with the music of Bruckner for more than a century, the liner notes pointing out that “among all chief conductors after the Second World War, Günter Wand is remembered for having featured Bruckner’s symphonies most prominently; he made them the mainstay of the orchestra’s repertoire during the entire course of his long tenure as General Music Director until 1974… Under Wand’s successors Yuri Ahronovitch and Markus Stenz, the symphonies of Anton Bruckner continued to play a key role in Gürzenich Orchestra concert programmes.”The notes go on to point out that in his first concert as Principal Conductor, Roth led the […]
2024-01-05 17:27:00
Der Rosenkavalier, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2 January 2024
[…] of Pets – Michael Kim Leopold – Oliver Chwat Lackeys, Waiters – Sooongoo Lee, Felipe Martin, Insoo Hwoang, Thomas Vogel Three noble orphans – Olga Vilenskaia, Anna Woldt, Verena Albertz Lerchenauschen – Peter Krumow, Stefan Livland, Mike Keller, Thomas Vogel, Ben Bloomfeld, Andreas Neher Paper artist – Tomas Höfer Mohammed – Joseph UmohDirector – André HellerAssistant director – Wolfgang SchillySet designs – Xenia Hausner, Nanna NeudeckCostumes – Arthur Arbesser, Onka Allmayer-BeckLighting – Olaf FreeseVideo – Günter Jäckle, Philip Hillers Children’s Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (chorus director: Vinzenz Weissenburger)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinJoana Mallwitz (conductor)Image: Stefan Liewehr (from 2020 premiere, with different cast) First seen in 2020, André Heller’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, ‘in collaboration with’ Wolfgang Schilly, is something of an enigma. Not only does there appear to be no overriding concept, nor even sense of what the work might be about; there also […]
2023-12-17 09:39:00
Eugene Onegin, Komische Oper, 15 December 2023
Schillertheater Eugene Onegin – Günter PapendellTatiana – Ruzan Mantashyan Olga – Deniz Uzun Lensky – Gerard Schneider Mme Larina – Stefanie Schaefer Prince Gremin – Tijl Faveyts Filipievna – Margarita Nekrasova M. Triquet – Christoph Späth Zaretsky – Ferhat Baday Captain – Jan-Frank Süße Guillot – Alexander KohlBarrie Kosky (director)Werner Sauer (revival director)Rebecca Ringst (set designs)Klaus Bruns (costumes)Simon Berger (dramaturgy)Franck Evin (lighting) Orchestra and Chorus (chorus director: David Cavelius) of the Komische OperJames Gaffigan (conductor)Images: Iko Freese / drama-berlin.de I first saw Barrie Kosky’s Eugene Onegin, premiered in 2016, in 2019, a few months before the theatres closed. Then it was at the Komische Oper’s permanent home on Behrenstraße. Now, the building having closed for several years for renovation, this latest revival may be seen across town in Charlottenburg’s Schillertheater, conducted by the company’s new music director James Gaffigan. The cast is a mix of old and new, Günter Papendell, Stefanie […]
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