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2019-07-31 18:35:00
Munich Opera Festival (2) - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 27 July 2019
Nationaltheater Images: Wilfried HöslHans Sachs (Wolfgang Koch) Hans Sachs – Wolfgang Koch Veit Pogner – Christof FischesserKunz Vogelgsang – Kevin ConnersKonrad Nachtigall – Christian RiegerSixtus Beckmesser – Martin GantnerFritz Kothner – Michael Kupfer-RadeckyBalthasar Zorn – Ulrich ReßUlrich Eißlinger – Dean PowerAugustin Moser – Thorsten ScharnkeHermann Ortel – Levente PállHans Schwarz – Peter LobertHans Foltz – Roman AstakhovWalther von Stolzing – Daniel KirchDavid – Allan ClaytonEva – Sara JakubiakMagdalena – Okka von der DamerauNight Watchman – Milan Siljanov David Bösch (director) Patrick Bannwart (set designs)Meentje Nielsen (costumes)Falko Herold (video)Rainer Karlitschek (dramaturgy)Theresa Schlichtherle (revival director) Bavarian State Opera Chorus and Extra Chorus (chorus master: Sören Eckhoff) Bavarian State Orchestra Kirill Petrenko (conductor) Beckmesser (Martin Gantner) and Sachs ‘Es klang so neu und war doch ein bißchen alt’? A little more than three years after first seeing David Bösch’s (then new) production of Die […]
2018-08-08 07:15:21
Jonas Kaufmann as Wagner’s Parsifal at the Munich Opera Festival
[…] Petrenko (by the way conducting his first Parsifal) his charges in the pit acted to his every whim. They were magnificent and heard to good effect in the Prelude (played against a grand drape depicting four skeletal objects in pen-and-ink) based on motives heard in The Love Feast and The Spear as well as the ‘Dresden Amen’ representing the Holy Grail. And let’s not forget members of the chorus who, under the guidance of Sören Eckhoff, put in some excellent and diligent work.Incidentally, the ‘Dresden Amen’ was composed by Johann Gottlieb Naumann for use at the Royal Chapel, Dresden. But such was its popularity that it took Saxony by storm and used by Catholics and Lutherans alike. Wagner also incorporated the piece in Das Liebesverbot (one of his earliest operas) and, indeed, drew upon it for the third act of Tannhäuser. Wagner: Parsifal - Christian Gerhaher - Munich Opera […]
2018-08-03 15:27:00
Munich Opera Festival (4) - Parsifal, 31 July 2018
Nationaltheater Parsifal (Jonas Kaufmann) and the FlowermaidensImages: Ruth Walz Amfortas – Christian Gerhaher Titurel – Bálint Szabó Gurnemanz – René PapeParsifal – Jonas KaufmannKlingsor – Wolfgang KochKundry – Nina StemmeFirst Knight of the Grail – Kevin ConnersSecond Knight of the Grail – Callum ThorpeSquires – Paula Iancic, Annika Schlicht, Manuel Günther, Matthew GrillsFlowermaidens – Golda Schultz, Selene Zanetti, Annika Schlicht, Nolevuyiso Mpofu, Paula Iancic, Rachael WilsonVoice from Above – Rachael Wilson Pierre Audi (director) Georg Baselitz, Christof Hetzer (set designs)Florence von Gerkan, Tristan Sczesny (costumes)Urs Schönebaum (lighting)Klaus Bertisch, Benedikt Stampfli (dramaturgy) Children’s Chorus, Chorus and Extra Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus masters: Stellario Fagone and Sören Eckhoff) Bavarian State OrchestraKirill Petrenko (conductor) And so, this year’s Munich Opera Festival and this year’s Bavarian State Opera season came to a close with everyone’s favourite Bühnenweihfestspiel, Parsifal, in the final outing this time around for Pierre Audi’s new […]
2018-08-02 19:52:00
Munich Opera Festival (3) - From the House of the Dead, 30 July 2018
Nationaltheater Images: Wilfried Hösl Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov – Peter MikulášAljeja – Evgeniya SotnikovaLuka Kuzmič (Filka Morozov) – Aleš BrisceinSkuratov – Charles WorkmanŠiškov – Bo SkovhusBig Prisoner, Prisoner with the Eagle – Manuel GüntherLittle Prisoner, Bitter Prisoner – Tim KuypersGovernor – Christian RiegerOld Prisoner – Ulrich ReßČekunov – Johannes KammlerDrunk Prisoner – Galeano SalasCook – Boris PrýglSmith – Alexander MilevPope – Peter LobertProstitute – Niamh O’SullivanDon Juan (Brahmin) – Callum ThorpeKedrill, Young Prisoner – Matthew GrillsŠapkin, Happy Prisoner – Kevin ConnersČerevin, Voice from the Kirghizian Steppes – Dean PowerGuard – Long LongFrank Castorf (director) Aleksandar Denić (set designs)Adriana Braga Peretski (costumes)Rainer Casper (lighting)Andreas Deinert (video, live camera)Stefanie Katja Nirschl (live camera)Jens Crull (video, live editing)Miron Hakenbeck (dramaturgy)Martha Münder (revival director)Bavarian State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Sören Eckhoff) Bavarian State OrchestraSimone Young (conductor) Frank Castorf might have been born to direct From the […]
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