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2023-10-22 09:43:00
Elektra, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 20 October 2023
Images unless otherwise stated: (c) Jakob TillmannKlytämnestra – Waltraud Meier Elektra – Ricarda Merbeth Chrysothemis – Vida Miknevičiūtė Orest – Lauri Vasar Aegisth – Stephan Rügamer First Maid – Bonita Hyman Second Maid, Train-bearer – Natalia Skrycka Third Maid – Katharina Kammerloher Fourth Maid – Anna Samuil Fifth Maid – Roberta Alexander Overseer, Confidante – Cheryl Studer Young Servant – Siyabonga Maqungo Old Servant – Olaf Bär Orest’s Tutor – David WakehamPatrice Chéreau (director)Vincent Huguet (assistant director)Richard Peduzzi (set designs)Caroline de Vivaise (costumes)Dominique Bruguière (lighting)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinMarkus Poschner (conductor) For many of us, she has always been there. Not only ‘there’, somewhere, but there—at the top. It is difficult not to romanticise a little, though it is certainly not her style. She spoke briefly and with customary professionalism: she had had a wonderful career, done what she wanted to, and now it was time to say […]
2023-01-29 01:04:00
San Francisco Opera 2023-24
[…] the second time under the revival director, who is also directing this revival.Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, libretto by Rhiannon Giddens, Omar. John Kennedy/Jamez McCorkle (Omar), Taylor Raven (Fatima), Brittany Rene (Julie), Norman Garrett (Abdul and Abe), Daniel Okulitsch (Johnson and Owen), Barry Banks (Auctioneer and Taylor). SFO co-commission. Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore. Ramon Tebar/Pene Pati (Nemorino), Slávka Zámečníková (Adina), David Bižić (Belcore), Renato Girolami (Dulcamara). Production new to SFO, by Daniel Slater. Summer 2024: Mozart, Die Zauberflote. Kim/Amitai Pati (Tamino), Christina Gansch (Pamina), Lauri Vasar (Papageno), Kwangchul Youn (Sarastro), Anna Simińska (Queen of the Night), Zhengyi Bai (Monastatos). No Papagena announced. Production new to SF, by Barrie Kosky, set in the 1920s and using a lot of animation. It's been done in LA and Chicago and is popular. Kaija Saariaho, Innocence. Clément Mao-Takacs/Ruxandra Donose, Claire de Sevigne, Rod GIlfry, Miles Mykkanen, Kristinn Sigmundsson, Lucy Shlton, Vilma Jaa. US premiere, SFO co-production. "Sung in English, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, French, Swedish, German, Spanish and Greek with English supertitles." I've been […]
2019-05-17 16:53:00
Hans Werner Henze Phaedra - I was at the world premiere!
Henze Phaedra, Berlin 2007 photo by Ruth Walz Hans Werner Henze Phaedra at the Linbury, Royal Opera House with the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme. On 10th September 2007, I was at the world premiere in Berlin at the unrefurbished Staatsoper unter den Linden. Then, Michael Boder conducted Ensemble Modern, with Joihn Mark Ainsley sung by John Mark Ainsley, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Marlus Petersen, Axel Köhler and Lauri Vasar. In January 2010 it came to the Barbican London, unstaged but with the same personnel. Over the years I've written quite a bit about Henze and Henze's Phaedra in particular.. Here's what I wrote back in 2007 when it was new and my first impressions fresh.When he wrote L’Upupa, or TheTriumph of Will some years ago, Hans Werner Henze said it would be his last opera. Approaching his 80’s, Henze was dynamised by a whole new surge of creativity. This […]
2019-04-19 10:05:00
Betrothal in a Monastery, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 13 April 2019
Staatsoper Unter den Linden Images: Ruth and Martin WalzBogdan Volkov (Don Antonio), Goran Jurić (Mendoza), Aida Garifullina (Luisa), Anna Goryachova (Clara d’Almanza), Violeta Urmana (Die Duenna), Maxim Paster (Moderator), Stephan Rügamer (Don Jerome) und Lauri Vasar (Don Carlos) Don Jerome – Stephan Rügamer Don Ferdinand – Andrey Zhilikovsky Luisa – Aida Garifullina The Duenna – Violeta Urmana Don Antonio – Bogdan Volkov Clara d’Almanza – Anna Goryachova Mendoza – Goran Jurić Don Carlos – Lauri Vasar Moderator – Maxim Paster Dmitri Tcherniakov (director)Elena Zaytseva (costumes) Gleb Filshtinsky (lighting) Alexey Poluboryarinov (video) Jana Beckmann, Detlef Giese (dramaturgy) Prokofiev and Sheridan might not immediately sound the most obvious match. When one thinks about it a little, however, it is not incongruous – even if it remains surprising. The collaboration stands at a distance, of course, of more than a century-and-a-half: a distance that brings its owns […]
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