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2023-08-30 06:28:00
Wagner: Die Walkure - Act Three - Claire Barnett-Jones, Elisabeth Teige, Catherine Foster, Christa Mayer, Stephanie Houtzeel - Bayreuth Festival 2023 (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen; Aile Asszonyi, Hailey Clark, Okka von der Damerau, Markus Eiche, Catherine Foster, Mika Kares, Daniel Kirch, Daniela Köhler, Tomasz Konieczny, Christa Mayer, Andreas Schager, Olafur Sigurdarson, Elisabeth Teige, Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, dir: Valentin Schwarz; cond: Pietari Inkinen; Bayreuth Festival. Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 28 August 2023Finnish-born conductor, Pietari Inkinen, proudly walked the Grüner Hügel this year to conduct the complete Ring following his 2021 festival début with Die Walküre. Austrian stage director, Valentin Schwarz - who came to prominence in tandem with set designer Andrea Cozzi after winning the 2017 Ring Award - made his Bayreuth Festival début with this Ring cycle last year which received a mixed reception although it’s faring much better this year, conducted by Pietari […]
2022-08-04 17:19:00
Bayreuth Festival (3) - Siegfried, 3 August 2022
FestspielhausSiegfried – Andreas Schager Mime – Arnold Bezuyen Wanderer – Tomasz Koniezcny Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Fafner – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Erda – Okka von der Damerau Brünnhilde – Daniela Köhler Woodbird – Alexandra Steiner Young Hagen – Branko Buchberger Grane – Igor Schwab Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting)Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Cornelius Meister (conductor) This Siegfried made for pretty miserable music drama, I am afraid, the considerable qualities of the music ‘half’ notwithstanding. In a peculiar way, Wagner’s vision was vindicated. His works are not operas, nor are they intended to be. They may well impress in concert performances or in audio-only experiences at home—phenomena worthy of greater attention—but they need to impress musically and dramatically in the theatre, the whole so much more than the sum of its parts. One never knows what might be pulled out of […]
2022-08-03 10:03:00
Bayreuth Festival (2): Die Walküre, 1 August 2022
FestspielhausSiegmund – Klaus Florian Vogt Hunding – Georg Zeppenfeld Wotan – Tomasz Konieczny, Michael Kupfer-Radecky Sieglinde – Lise Davidsen Brünnhilde – Iréne Theorin Fricka, Schwertleite – Christa Mayer Gerhilde – Kelly God Ortlinde – Brit-Tone Müllertz Waltraute – Stéphanie Müther Helmwige – Daniela Köhler Siegrune – Stephanie Houtzeel Grimgerde – Marie Henriette Reinhold Rossweiße – Katie Stevenson Grane – Igor Schwab Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Cornelius Meister (conductor) The boos are getting louder: not, I think, for the musicians, but for the production of Valentin Schwarz, who has yet to appear for a curtain-call. That need be no bad thing artistically, though the practice itself is fascistic; should a bourgeois audience feel satisfied with what it has consumed, it will be a disturbing outcome for art. Here, though, the open mind I am endeavouring […]
2022-02-22 09:00:41
[…] Leipzig Baroque Opera present Susanna with a cast including Marie Lys, Ciara Henrick, Benjamin Hulett, and Benjamin Bevan, conducted by Philipp Ahmann. Howard Arman conducts the Staatskapelle Halle in Semele, in a version which re-constructs the performing edition used (cut and sung in German) for the opening concert of the 1922 festival. There are 67 events in total including concerts from Jordi Savall, Philippe Jaroussky, Ragna Schirmer or Romelia Lichtenstein, as well as countertenor Axel Köhler, who continued as Festival director after his retirement from the stage. Full details from the festival website.
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