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2023-08-23 21:44:00
Generational Change
[…] season, which opens on September 22.And keep in mind that something similar is going on across the street, where the Opera Orchestra has a number of openings. Additionally, when the next run of Der Ring des Nibelungen plays at the War Memorial Opera House, who do you think will be singing in it? Nina Stemme has retired the role of Brünnhilde, if I'm remember the program notes from her Cal Performances recital correctly. She and Iréne Theorin both turned 60 this year. I do not think that either Mark Delevan (age 64) or Greer Grimsley (age 67) will be back for Wotan a few years down the road.Looking around a bit, there's intriguing casting in Europe for a couple of performances of Die Walküre conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, aka the music director of the Metropolitan Opera. Tamara Wilson as Brünnhilde, Solomon Howard as Hunding, Elza van den Heever as Sieglinde, Brian Mulligan as […]
2023-03-10 02:54:00
[…] opinions on important news stories.Local news story of the year: In an amazing coup, Esa-Pekka Salonen will be the next music director of San Francisco Symphony.Second biggest local surprise of the year (after E-PS): Nic McGegan to retire after 30-odd years as music director of Philharmonia Baroque.Local non-story of the year: Two and a half years after the announcement of Nicola Luisotti's departure from San Francisco Opera, there's no new music director in sight.Favorite local cast changes: Irene Theorin stepping in for Evelyn Herlitzius in the SFO Ring, on almost no notice, and singing the heck out of Brünnhilde; Music Director Designate Salonen stepping into the concerts vacated by MGT, and being Salonen, MDD, improving the program.Big news (mostly) elsewhere: Abusive behavior resulted in the firings, resignations, or suspensions of James Levine (Met), Daniele Gatti (Royal Concertgebouw....but the Rome Opera hired him not long after, astonishingly), Charles Dutoit (after more than 20 years of stories! was fired […]
2022-08-06 20:41:00
Bayreuth Festival (4): Götterdämmerung, 5 August 2022
FestspielhausSiegfried – Clay Hilley Gunther – Michael Kupfer-Radecky Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Hagen – Albert Dohmen Brünnhilde – Iréne Theorin Gutrune – Elisabeth Teige Waltraute – Christa Meyer First Norn – Okka von der Damerau Second Norn – Stéphanie Müther Third Norn – Kelly God Woglinde – Lee-an Dunbar Wellgunde – Stephanie Houtzeel Flosshilde – Katie Stevenson Grane – Igor Schwab Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Luis August Krawen (video)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraCornelius Meister (conductor) Valentin Schwarz’s Ring ends more or less where it began, bar curtain-calls in which the long-awaited appearance of Schwarz and his team was greeted by the most intensive booing I have ever heard. I suppose a ‘cyclical’ turn will appeal to some who insist on referring to the Ring as a ‘cycle’, when it is nothing of the sort. Even […]
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 […]
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