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Back with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden
[…] tether. It was a moving yet vigorous performance, aided by Michael Mofidian's nervy and anxious companion. Charles Workman was a handsomely glamorous as Agisth, a character you trust no further than you could throw him; you could see this Klytämnestra and Ägisth as media darlings, all surface and no depth.The maids (Noa Beinart, Veena Kama-Makia, Gabriele Kupsyte, Ella Taylor, Valentina Puskas) at the opening were well depicted, creating a vivid sense of place with Lee Bisset rather luxury casting as the Overseer. Marianne Cotterill and Amanda Baldwin were Klytämnestra's companions, whilst Michael Gibson was the young servant and Jeremy White was the Old Servant. And not a weak link anywhere.One last thing; I am not sure who was responsible for it, but Klytämnestra's off-stage scream was terrific too.Strauss: Elektra - Karita Mattila, Nina Stemme - Royal Opera (Photo: ROH/Tristram Kenton)Almost as important a character was the orchestra. Pappano's direction was […]
2022-08-07 14:33:00
Stupendous achievement: Grimeborn's Ring adventure comes to a thrilling and satisfying conclusion at the Hackney Empire
Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Lee Bisset - Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival at Hackney Empire (Photo Alex Brenner)Wagner: Siegfried & Götterdämmerung, adapted by Graham Vick & Jonathan Dove; Lee Bisset, Neal Cooper, Mark Le Brocq, Paul Carey Jones, Freddie Tong, director: Julia Burbach, Orpheus Sinfonia, conductor: Peter Selwyn; Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival at Hackney EmpireReviewed 6 August 2022 (★★★★★)The Grimeborn fringe Ring Cycle comes to a thrilling and satisfying conclusion, telling this complex story in a way that was engaging and direct, with some fine singing and acting.The Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival Ring adventure came to a triumphant conclusion yesterday (6 August 2022) with the performances of Julia Burbach's production of Wagner's Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at the Hackney Empire. The adaptation by Graham Vick and Jonathan Dove was used, with Peter Selwyn conducting the Orpheus Sinfonia. Lee Bisset was Brünnhilde, Paul Carey Jones was the Wanderer, Freddie Tong was Alberich, with Neal Cooper as Siegfried (in Siegfried) and Mark Le Brocq as […]
2022-07-23 07:45:00
From Bayreuth to Grimeborn: having assisted at Bayreuth Festival's new Ring Cycle, Peter Selwyn moves on to conduct the concluding parts of the Grimeborn Festival's ambitious Ring Cycle
[…] well.Wagner: Das Rheingold - Andrew Tipple (Fasolt), Paul Carey Jones (Wotan), Gareth Brynmor John (Donner), Dingle Yandell (Fafner) - Grimeborn Festival 2019 (Photo Lidia Crisafulli)There is nothing reduced about the casting, all could sing the full opera. They have gone for a full Wagner sound, and Peter admits that there is something of a crossover with Longborough Festival Opera in the casting, they have simply gone for some of the best people out there. Lee Bisset, who sings Brünnhilde at Grimeborn, sang the role in Longborough's production of Siegfried this year and will sing the Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde there next year. So Grimeborn is a chance for her to get this latter role under her belt. The reduced version preserves some 70% of the role and the Immolation Scene is intact. In the reduction, whilst some scenes are cut or are missing others are preserved intact, so for instance Wotan's monologue in Act […]
2021-05-24 15:07:23
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