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2018-11-09 16:37:59
Anglais - Patrice Chéreau's devastating Elektra returns to La Scala
[…] hand for the title role: her bright, weighty voice and razor sharp diction cut through dense orchestral textures, and the soprano powered through her music to vividly communicate an array of emotional states from bounding excitement to pulsing eroticism to stark despair. The restless, writhing Merbeth was a picture of turmoil and pent up rage. At key moments such as her opening account of the mariticide her voice built to a harrowing roar. Regine Hangler as Chrysothemis had charisma to match. Hers is a voluptuous voice, here used to evoke a naive reading of the character which boldly contrasted with the dark Elektra. Waltraud Meier's rich mezzo has lost some of its sheen and was not always audible over the orchestra, but her artistry remains as vital as ever. When Klytämnestra confided in her daughter Elektra, with the latter ultimately threatening to sacrifice the former, Meier spun an eloquent […]
2018-08-26 08:33:57
Bayreuth’s Die Walküre is pulled from the pack and given another airing conducted by Plácido Domingo
Richard Wagner Die Walküre: Catherine Foster, Stephen Gould, Regine Hangler, Anja Kampe, Mika Kaneko, Tobias Kehrer, Christiane Kohl, John Lundgren, Mareike Morr, Alexandra Petersamer, Marina Prudenskaya, Simone Schröder, Caroline Wenborne, dir: Frank Castorf, cond: Plácido Domingo; Bayreuth Festival, Germany Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 18 August 2018 Star rating: 5.0Frank Castorf’s Ring proved controversial at first but found its feet over its five-year runThe Bayreth Festival presented Wagner's Die Walküre as a stand-alone production (seen 18 August 2018) conducted by Plácido Domingo with Catherine Foster, John Lundgren, Anja Kampe, Stephen Gould, Tobias Kehrer and Marina Prudenskaya. In the second part of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre (in repertoire from 2013 to 2017 as part of the complete cycle to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth), Berlin-based, avant-garde, theatre director, Frank Castorf, unconventionally dumped the opera’s traditional romantic Rhineland setting for the rough-and-tumble […]
2018-02-09 07:24:46
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Semperoper, Dresden
[…] to frightening effect. The dual role of Wotan/The Wanderer was brilliantly and strongly sung by Ukrainian bass, Vitalij Kowaljow - who previously worked as a fireman in his homeland - while his long-suffering wife, Fricka (Christa Mayer) - Goddess of Marriage - proved quite business-like in her dealings with him offering an intelligent and thoughtful reading of the role standing up to her aggressive, arrogant and wayward husband in no uncertain terms while Freia (Regine Hangler) put in a dramatic and confident performance. And the brothers of Fricka and Freia - Donner (God of Thunder) and Froh (God of Spring) were dutifully sung by Derek Welton and Tansel Akzeybek while Albert Dohmen played Alberich (a master of the role) aggressively, craftily and nasty as befits this ugly character while his long-suffering brother, Mime, admirably sung by Gerhard Siegel, felt the heat and beat of his anger. The pastel-coloured theatre seating […]
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2016-04-01 20:12:46
Welser-Most: Music is about give and take
[…] These two roles undoubtedly make her one of THE Strauss singers of our times – one who knows how to convey the touchingly intimate aspects of this music. You often work with the same singers in Salzburg. What is the advantage of that? Music is about give and take. Familiarity makes many things easier, and you can probe the depths of a work much more profoundly. Stoyanova was my Ariadne and my Marschallin; Hangler was my sensational Daphne in New York; Konieczny sang Wotan and Mandryka with me, and since the almost unsingable role of Jupiter is a mix of the two former, he was the logical choice. Gerhard Siegel, who is unjustly pigeonholed in the Mime category, and Norbert Ernst, whose lyrical voice is developing increasingly in the direction of a lyrical hero, are also musical comrades-in-arms. After all the beautiful experiences I have shared with these […]
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