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2023-10-22 09:43:00
Elektra, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 20 October 2023
Images unless otherwise stated: (c) Jakob TillmannKlytämnestra – Waltraud Meier Elektra – Ricarda Merbeth Chrysothemis – Vida Miknevičiūtė Orest – Lauri Vasar Aegisth – Stephan Rügamer First Maid – Bonita Hyman Second Maid, Train-bearer – Natalia Skrycka Third Maid – Katharina Kammerloher Fourth Maid – Anna Samuil Fifth Maid – Roberta Alexander Overseer, Confidante – Cheryl Studer Young Servant – Siyabonga Maqungo Old Servant – Olaf Bär Orest’s Tutor – David WakehamPatrice Chéreau (director)Vincent Huguet (assistant director)Richard Peduzzi (set designs)Caroline de Vivaise (costumes)Dominique Bruguière (lighting)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinMarkus Poschner (conductor) For many of us, she has always been there. Not only ‘there’, somewhere, but there—at the top. It is difficult not to romanticise a little, though it is certainly not her style. She spoke briefly and with customary professionalism: she had had a wonderful career, done what she wanted to, and now it was time to say […]
2021-10-04 06:43:32
'The more light-heartedly you can handle this, the better it would be' - Strauss, Hofmannsthal and Die ägyptische Helena
Richard Strauss' Die ägyptische Helena at La Scala, Milan in 2019 with Ricarda Merbeth as Helena Despite his virtues as an opera librettist, concision and clarity of plot were not Hugo von Hofmannsthal's strong points. His ideas behind Die Frau ohne Schatten, the collaboration with Richard Strauss which premiered at the Vienna State Opera in 1919, arose out of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, but the resulting opera became one of the largest and taxing in the repertoire, with performances developing into real occasions. The strange thing is that their subsequence collaboration, Die ägyptische Helena (1928), which has a similarly complex mythic plot and challenging solo parts, is so rarely performed that rather than being an occasion, the performance becomes a red-letter day. Whilst Covent Garden managed to put on concert performances of Die ägyptische Helena (at the Royal Festival Hall in 1998 with Deborah Voigt as Helena), the palm for creating […]
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2021-08-20 12:23:00
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor – Ural Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Zehetmair (HD 1080p)
[…] More photosSee also Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor – Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra (HD 1080p) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor "Choral" – Lauren Fagan, Hanna Hipp, Tuomas Katajala, Shenyang, Oslo Philharmonic Choir & Orcestra, Klaus Mäkelä (4K Ultra High Definition) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No.9 in D minor "Choral" – Ricarda Merbeth, Sophie Koch, Robert Dean Smith, Samuel Youn, Choeur de Radio France, L'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Myung-Whun Chung (HD 1080p)
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2021-03-08 10:00:20
Jonas has a cuddle in this week’s free operas from Vienna
The schedule: Dienstag, 9. März 2021, 19.00 Uhr Richard Wagner DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (Vorstellung vom 11. September 2015) Romantische Oper in drei Akten Musikalische Leitung: Peter Schneider Inszenierung: Christine Mielitz Mit u.a.: Michael Volle, Hans-Peter König, Ricarda Merbeth, Herbert Lippert Mittwoch, 10. März 2021, 19.00 Uhr Richard Strauss ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (Vorstellung vom 29. November […]
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