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2021-12-15 16:01:59
Anglais - Jacques Offenbach's "Orphée aux Enfers" at the Komische Oper Berlin
[…] In this production, he and Esteban Muñoz, who took over the rehearsals in Berlin while Kosky was busy with a new Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera - instill the singers and chorus with Dyonisian attributes and physical expressions of frivolous and erotic pleasures. Yet this constant actionism gets tiresome and wears thin after two hours - as so often is the case, less would have been more. Among the soloists, actor Max Hopp's portrayal of John Styx must be mentioned first and foremost. In the original, the role of Styx is a minor supporting role. Kosky expands it to a leading role and Styx becomes narrator, servant, conferencier, noisemaker, confidant. Hopp - in a conspicuously shiny purple satin tuxedo - is on stage almost the entire time, takes over almost all the dialogues - which in turn are mimed by the singers - and delivers a multitude […]
2019-04-07 09:05:17
Andreas Homoki directed a stylish production of Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady, a musical bridging Low Life and High Life, often referred to as ‘The Perfect Musical’
Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady - Komische Oper, Berlin (Photo Iko Freese) Lerner & Loewe My Fair Lady; Max Hopp, Katharine Mehrling, dir: Andreas Homoki, cond: Peter Christian Feigel; Komische Oper, Berlin Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 2 April 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Defying the generation gap, My Fair Lady proved a winner all the way to the finishing line Lerner & Loewe: My Fair Lady Komische Oper, Berlin (Photo Iko Freese) Max Hopp - coming fresh from the starring role of Tevje the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof - put in a commanding and athletic performance as the eccentric professor of phonetics, Henry Higgins, in this welcome revival of Komische Oper’s 2015 production of Frederick Loewe’s My Fair Lady (dubbed ‘The Perfect Musical’) based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, directed by […]
2017-09-19 12:37:00
Musikfest Berlin (8) - Tetzlaff/RSB/Jurowski - Yun, Schoenberg, Nono, and Beethoven-Mahler, 17 September 2017
Philharmonie Images: Kai Bienert Isang Yun: Dimensionen, for large orchestra with organ Schoenberg: Violin Concerto, op.36Nono: Julius FučikBeethoven, retouched by Mahler: Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67 Christian Tetzlaff (violin) Max Hopp (speaker: Fučik) Sven Philipp (speaker: Officer) Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) My final – although not quite the final – concert of this year’s Musikfest Berlin fell on the hundred birthday of Isang Yun. Having heard some of his chamber music that afternoon, it was an interesting prospect to hear a work for full, indeed large, orchestra, with organ. (Alas, I was unable to find the name of the organist anywhere in the programme.) Dimensionen, or Dimensions, was commissioned by the city of Nuremberg, as part of the 1971 celebrations for the five-hundredth anniversary of Albrecht Durer. I wish I had been able to respond more than I had, but […]
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2016-02-12 10:59:27
Self-taught Greek composer wins 400,000 Euro prize
[…] co-founded with his wife, the actress Edith Scob the Atelier Théâtre et Musique (ATEM), where musicians acted and actors played. Among 20 works he wrote for ATEM are Jojo (1990), Sextuor (1993) and Commentaires (1996). Last year, Aperghis was honoured with Lion d’Or at the Venice Biennale. The BBVA jury was chaired by Philippe Albèra, Director of Éditions Contrechamps, with Ranko Markovic, professor of music at Zurich University of the Arts; Winrich Hopp, Artistic Director of Musikfest Berlin; Martin Kaltenecker, musicologist at Université Paris Diderot; Tilman Kuttenkeuler, intendant of Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin; Paolo Pinamonti, Director of Teatro di San Carlo, Naples; Gianni Possio, Professor at Milan Conservatory; Massimo Acanfora Torrefranca, professor in The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya (Israel); and Dimitri Vassilakis, pianist of Ensemble Intercontemporain (France).
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