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Swiss-Dutch operatic mezzo-soprano
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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 […]
2015-06-08 01:00:00
Catel: Sémiramis
Charles-Simon Catel (1773-1830) Sémiramis (Tragedie Lyriques in Three Acts-1802) Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Gabrielle Philiponet, Mathias Vidal Nicolas Courjal, Andrew Foster-Williams, Nicolas Maire Hérve Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel (Period Instruments) Glossa GCD 921625 (2012) 2-Disc set If someone has a pdf booklet, can you please share it? I did not scan the booklet so as not to destroy the binding. [Flac & Partial Scans]
2013-02-27 17:44:00
Teatro Real in Madrid 2013-2014
[…] Magnus Staveland... April 2014: Lohengrin [new production]: dir- Lucas Hemleb, cnd- Hartmut Haenchen, cast: Christopher Ventris/Micheal König, Catherine Naglestad/Anne Schwanewilms, Thomas Johannes Mayer/Tomas Tomason, Deborah Polaski/Dolora Zajick... May 2014: Les contes d'Hoffmann [new production]: dir- Christoph Marthaler, cnd- Sylvain Cambreling, cast: Eric Cutler, Anne Sofie von Otter, Vito Priante, Ana Durlovski, Maesha Bruggergosman... July 2014: Orphée et Eurydice (opera/ballet presented in Paris a few years ago, corr- Pina Bausch): cnd- Thomas Hengelbrock, cast: Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Yun Jung Choi, Zoe Nicolaidou
2013-01-22 16:33:16
St David's Hall, CardiffHistory has never quite decided what it was about Alma Mahler that so held a succession of artists – including Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Werfel – in thrall. Nor did an answer emerge clearly in this portrait of Alma, conceived as a prelude to Welsh National Opera's themed season, Free Spirits. While Alma aspired to freedom from her stultifying environment, extracts from her journal, read by actress Tamsin Greig, resembled Fifty Shades of Alma; they revealed no great depth of character.Alma has invited sympathy over the years: Gustav Mahler's prenuptial deal dictated that his future wife should renounce her ambition to be a composer. Maria Riccarda Wesseling sang Alma's early setting of Four Songs for Middle Voice with less conviction than was needed to underline the betrayal, and three of the four songs petered out. Wesseling had earlier delivered […]
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