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2024-02-26 07:40:00
Marking the centenary of Puccini's death, Opera Holland Park in his early Messa di Gloria
[…] songs and operatic excerpts performed by sopranos Eleanor Broomfield and Fflur Wyn, and tenors Phillip Costovski, Joseph Buckmaster and José de Eça, accompanied by a quartet from the City of London Sinfonia.The large venue with its resonant acoustic brought out the operatic element in Puccini's songs, and indeed several of the songs ended up in the operas. Though the reuse did not stop there because bits of the Messa di Gloria pop up too (Anna Picard's article in the programme gave us the delightful details).First off, the string quartet gave a finely expressive and richly romantic account of Puccini's Crisantemi, his only piece of chamber music. Then Philip Costovski sang the early song Morire (which pops up in La Rondine in 1917). Fflur Wyn sang the highly dramatic scena, Mentia l'avviso (from 1882), which was re-worked for Manon and Eleanor Broomfield gave us the delightful little song, written in memory […]
2023-05-20 20:09:00
Wozzeck, Royal Opera, 19 May 2023
[…] Anja Kampe. I was about to say ‘we tend…’, but should really only speak for myself: I tend often somewhat to overlook the tragedy of Marie’s death, so overwhelmed am I by that of Wozzeck. Here I felt greater parity, doubtless a matter of Warner’s Personenregie but also of Kampe’s portrayal. (It is more or less impossible for an outsider to distinguish between the two.) This important corrective was brought into further relief by Anna Picard’s excellent programme note on ‘Maria and her World’, whose closing words seem very much to refer to what we saw and heard: ‘She is no Kundry. Neither is she a Judith or the hysterical Woman in Marie Pappenheim and Arnold Schoenberg’s monodrama, Erwartung. Her murder is not dressed up as a form of release for Wozzeck or a point of debate. It is simply a domestic tragedy of a very ordinary, and ever modern, […]
2022-02-03 22:07:48
This article by Isabelle Picard appeared in La Scena Musicale in 2005. Forty-two years ago, Claire Guimond had just finished her studies in baroque flute under Barthold Kuijk in the Netherlands and Hank Knox had been in Paris studying harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert. The duo joined Chantal Rémillard (viola) and Betsy MacMillan [...]
2022-02-03 22:07:48
This article by Isabelle Picard appeared in La Scena Musicale in 2005. Forty-two years ago, Claire Guimond had just finished her studies in baroque flute under Barthold Kuijk in the Netherlands and Hank Knox had been in Paris studying harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert. The duo joined Chantal Rémillard (viola) and Betsy MacMillan [...]
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