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2022-04-03 04:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 3, 2022
[…] Opera premieres a new production of Richard Strauss’s Salome that will take celebrating the return of live performances to a new level by offering members of the audience the opportunity to not only watch the action, but to be immersed in it over two performances Friday, April 29 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, May 1 at 2:30 p.m. at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.The principal cast includes Julia Mintzer making her Salome role debut, tenor Jay Hunter Morris as Herod, and mezzo-soprano Katharine Goeldner as Herodias—all three singers making their Tulsa Opera debuts—and bass-baritone Wayne Tigges as Jochanaan.For details, visit https://tulsaopera.com/--Lisa Jaehnig, Shuman Associates2022 Newport Classical Music FestivalNewport Classical (formerly Newport Music Festival) announces its 2022 Newport Classical Music Festival, running from July 1-17, 2022. For its 54th season, Newport Classical Music Festival presents 24 concerts over 18 days, and will return for the first time since 2019 to the stunning […]
2020-12-20 23:18:56
Götterdämmerung
Starring Deborah Voigt, Wendy Bryn Harmer, Waltraud Meier, Jay Hunter Morris, Iain Paterson, Eric Owens, and Hans-Peter König, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From February 11, 2012.
2018-03-12 19:23:00
A dreaded cast change from the Met; Christine Goerke out sick:Sabine Hogrefe will perform the title role in Strauss’s Elektra at tonight’s performance, Monday March 12 at 7.30pm, replacing Christine Goerke who is ill. The German soprano makes her Met debut in tonight’s performance. She has previously sung the role of Elektra at Germany’s Theater Regensburg and Landestheater Detmold. Other engagements include Kostelnicka in Janáček’s Jenufa at the Opera Dijon, Ortrud in Wagner’s Lohengrin at Oper Frankfurt, and Brünnhilde in Wagner’sSiegfried at the Staatsoper Hannover. Tonight’s performance of Elektra is conducted by Met Music Director Designate Yannick Nézet-Séguin and includes Elza van den Heever as Chrysothemis, Michaela Schuster as Klytämnestra, Jay Hunter Morris as Aegisth, and Mikhail Petrenko as Orest. Remaining performances are on March 17 (matinee) and 23, 2018. I hope someone reports back about how Ms. Hogrefe does!
2018-03-10 18:54:00
Metropolitan Opera – Strauss’s Elektra. March 9, 2018.
Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center. Balcony (Seat B111, $110.50). Story. Klytamnestra plotted with Aegisth to murder her husband Agamemnon, and their daughter Elektra constantly mourns her father’s death and vows to avenge him. Her sister Chrysothemis doesn’t want to kill, despite all of her pleading. News reaches them that their brother Orest is dead. When Elektra is beginning to lose hope, a stranger shows up and is in fact Orest in disguise. He kills Klytamnestra, and also Aegisth when the latter shows up. Elektra celebrates by dancing in silence until she dies. Conductor – Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Elektra – Christine Goerke, Klytamnestra – Michaela Schuster, Chrysothemis – Elza van den Heever, Orest – Dwayne Croft, Aegisth – Jay Hunter Morris. Yesterday’s opera is about the tragic life of Cio-cio-san. Today’s about the equally tragic life of Elektra. Madama Butterfly rises and falls […]
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