Irma Polak News
Slovene opera singer
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Irma Polak)
- Austria-Hungary, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
- opera singer, stage actor, film actor
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2023-07-26 14:27:00
Munich Opera Festival (5) - Tristan und Isolde, 21 July 2023
NationaltheaterTristan – Stuart Skelton King Marke – René Pape Isolde – Anja Kampe Kurwenal – Wolfgang Koch Melot – Sean Michael Plumb Brangäne – Jamie Barton Shepherd – Jonas Hacker Steersman – Christian Rieger Young Sailor – Liam Bonthrone Krzysztof Warlikowski (director) Malgorzata Szczęśniak (designs) Felice Ross (lighting) Kamil Polak (video) Claude Bardouil (choreography) Miron Hakenbeck, Lukas Leipfinger (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Johannes Knecht) Bavarian State Orchestra Lothar Koenigs (conductor)Images: Wilfried HöslTristan (Stuart Skelton) and Isolde (Anja Kampe) Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Tristan, first seen two years ago, marking an end to Nikolaus Bachler’s intendancy, is on first sight at least, a puzzling affair. There are ideas, certainly, though quite how they connect, let alone cohere, lay largely beyond me. They seemed, moreover, to bear precious relation to this most treacherous of works, perhaps the most resistant of all operas—if one may call it an opera at […]
2023-07-23 13:34:00
Munich Opera Festival (4) - Dido and Aeneas/Erwartung, 20 July 2023
Nationaltheater Dido/A Woman - Aušrinė Stundytė Aeneas – Günter Papendell Belinda – Victoria Randem Venus – Rinat Shaham Sorceress – Key'mon W Murrah First Witch – Elmira Karakhanova Members of the opera-ballet of the Bavarian State Opera – Aaron Amoatey, Erica D’Amica, Ahta Yaw Ea, Arnie Georgsson, Moe Gotoda, João da Gracia Santiago, Serhat Perhat, The Thien Nguyen Interlude: Paweł Mykietyn (music) Maria Magdalena Gocał (vocalist) Jarowsław Regulski (sound design) Krzysztof Warlikowski (director) Malgorzata Szczęśniak (designs) Felice Ross (lighting) Kamil Polak (video) Claude Bardouil (choreography) Christian Longchamp, Katharina Ortmann (dramaturgy) Bavarian State Orchestra Supplementary Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Sergej Bolkhovets) Andrew Manze (conductor) Images: Bernd Uhlig Purcell and Schoenberg: my kind of double-bill. Puritan ‘authenticity’, or whatever it is calling itself at the moment, is so all-pervasive when it comes to the seventeenth century that the fantasy has had little chance—until now. To be fair, the […]
2022-01-30 12:00:00
Music by Ravel, heard by Natalie Artemas-Polak. 'John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London's superb disc is a joy to listen to, and the sound quality is crisp and clear.'
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-10-22 19:51:26
In the Guardian: Israel needs cultural bridges, not boycotts
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