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2024-04-15 10:00:46
On this day in 1738 Handel‘s Serse premiered in London The post appeared first on parterre box.
2024-03-25 23:45:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18, 19, 21, and 24 March 2024
Images: Monika RittershausBrünnhilde (Anja Kampe)Wotan/Wanderer – Tomas Konieczny Donner, Gunther – Roman Trekel Froh – Siyabonga Maqungo Loge – Rolando Villazón Fricka – Claudia Mahnke Freia – Anett Fritsch Erda, Rossweisse – Anna Kissjudit Alberich – Johannes Martin Kränzle Mime – Stephan Rügamer Fasolt – Matthew Rose Fafner – Peter Rose Woglinde – Evelin Novak Wellgunde – Natalia Skrycka Flosshilde, Siegrune – Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Siegmund – Robert Watson Sieglinde – Vida Miknevičutė Hunding – René Pape Brünnhilde – Anja Kampe Gerhilde – Clara Nadeshdin Helmwige – Christiane Kohl Waltraute – Michal Doron, Violeta Urmana Schwertleite – Alexandra Ionis Ortlinde, Third Norn – Anna Samuil Grimgerde – Aytaj Shikhalizada Siegfried – Andreas Schager Woodbird – Victoria Randem Hagen – Stephen Milling Gutrune – Mandy Friedrich First Norn – Marina Prudenskaya Second Norn – Kristina StanekDirector – Dmitri TcherniakovRevival directors – Lilli Fischer, Thorsten CölleCostumes – Elena ZaytsevaLighting – Gleb FilshtinskyVideo – […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-02-29 22:25:01
Visiting Aucoin’s Underworld
Boston area favorite-son composer Matthew Aucoin reached a pinnacle of recognition in November of 2021 at the Metropolitan Opera, where his opera Eurydice (book and libretto by Sarah Ruhl) vividly and artfully retold the Orpheus-plus myth from the tragedienne’s perspective. The underworld has never since been the same. “It’s not surprising that a tale about the greatest musician in history, a man who could make the very stones weep when he performed, keeps appealing to his descendants. The scenario offers composers a wedding party, a tragic death, an evocation of what lies beyond, an attempt at resurrection, a plangent lament — opportunities to shine, and to place themselves in a grand tradition.” NYT 2021 For the Boston Lyric Opera’s production, Aucoin reduced the orchestration demands considerably, but according to our interview subject, award-winning bass-baritone Mark S. Doss*, who plays the newly added role of Eurydice’s father, “…the sound is quite […]
2024-01-31 10:23:00
Salzburg Mozartwoche (4) - Baborák Ensemble: Mozart, Reicha, and Michael Haydn, 29 January 2024
Grosser Saal, MozarteumMozart, arr. Radek Baborák: Horn Concerto no.4 in E-flat major, KV 495 Anton Reicha: Quintet for horn, string quartet, and double bass in E major, op.106 Michael Haydn: Horn Concerto in D major, MH 134: ‘Larghetto’ and Allegro ma non troppo’ Mozart, completed Süssmayr (ed. Baborák): Rondo for horn quintet in D major, KV 514 Mozart: Horn Quintet in E-flat major, KV 407 Radek Baborák (horn)Milan Al-Ashhab, (violin)Martina Bačová (violin, viola)Karel Untermüller (viola)Hana Baboráková (cello)David Pavelka (double bass)Image: Wolfgang Lienbacher Not very often does one have opportunity to hear a chamber concert led by a horn player. Still less will it be by one of the distinction of Radek Baborák. Still less than that will the rest of the ensemble be of the distinction of the players Baborák brought together for this, the fourth of my Mozartwoche performances this year. Mixing the familiar and the considerably less […]
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