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Catalan composer and musical scholar and writer
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- Spain, United Kingdom
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2024-02-22 00:00:00
Machaut & Dufay - Motets [3CDS]
Guillaume de Machault (1300-1377)Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)MotetsDavid Cordier, Paul Gerhard Adam, Kai Wessel - altusWilfried Jochens, Gerd Türk, Knut Schoch - tenorEnsemble Helga WeberRecorded in 1990/91Label: IHW 3.108/I-IIIDownload 1fichier pixel workuploadN.B. The original release came with a 180-page bookletDetails: http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/rnr108.htmSome relevant scans includedCourtesy of Thomas Cadfael
2024-02-15 10:28:00
Madama Butterfly, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 14 February 2024
Cio-Cio-San – Sonya Yoncheva Suzuki – Natalia Skrycka Kate Pinkerton – Rebecka Wallroth Pinkerton – Stefan Pop Sharpless – Carles Pachon Goro – Gonzalo Quinchahual Prince Yamadori – Taehan Kim Uncle Bonze – Grigory Shkarupa Commissioner – Dionysios Avgerinos Cio-Cio-San’s Mother – Verena Allertz Aunt – Michèle Cusson Uncle – Insoo Hwoang Child – Carl BeymeDirector – Eike GramssRevival director – Marcin ŁakomickiDesigns – Peter SykoraLighting – Irene SelkaStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinDomingo Hindoyan (conductor)Images (from the 1991 premiere): Gianmarco Bresadola Happy St Valentine’s Day! Ash Wednesday and an opera about sex tourism. Whatever we might think about the latter two, many will agree that the coincidence is well deserved by the pseudo-feast of heart-shaped balloons and ‘special menus’ at three times the price, a third of the culinary quality. In retrospect, or rather more or less as soon as I had arrived, I could not help but […]
2024-02-06 18:50:00
Rusalka, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 4 February 2024
Rusalka – Christiane Karg Prince – Pavel Černoch Foreign Princess – Anna Samuil Vodník – Mika Kares Ježibaba – Anna Kissjudit Gamekeeper – Adam Kutny Kitchen Boy – Clara Nadeshdin Nymphs – Regina Koncz, Rebecka Wallroth, Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Huntsman – Taehan Kim Director – Kornél MundruczóDesigns – Monika PormaleLighting – Felice RossVideo – Rūdolfs BaltiņšChoreography - Candaş BaşDramaturgy – Kata Wéber, Christoph Lang Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinRobin Ticciati (conductor)Images: Gianmarco BresadolaRusalka (Christiane Karg) Director Kornél Mundruczó comes like a breath of fresh air to unsettle our conceptions of Dvořák’s last and, by some way, greatest opera and thus to do precisely what the material demands; or rather, it comes as something bitterly stale, menacing, even poisonous to accomplish what fresh air on its own might not be able. It is certainly refreshing, though it should not be, to have a production that takes class seriously as a form of […]
2024-01-21 14:35:00
Daphne, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 20 January 2024
Peneios – René PapeGaea – Anna KissjuditDaphne – Vera-Lotte BoeckerLeukippos – Johan KrogiusApollo – David Butt PhilipFour Shepherds – Arttu Kataja, Florian Hoffmann, Adam Kutuy, Friedrich HamelTwo Maids – Evelin Novak, Natalia SkryckaDirector, set design, costumes, lighting – Romeo Castellucci Revival director – José Dario Innella Choreography – Evelin Facchini Assistant director – Maxi Menja Lehmann Set design assistance – Lisa Behensky, Alessio Valmori Costume assistance – Clara Rosina Straßer, Theresa Wilson Lighting assistance – Marco GiustiStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinThomas Guggeis (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausDaphne (Vera-Lotte Boecker) Seen first last year, Romeo Castellucci’s production of Daphne receives its first revival. In one sense, it could hardly be more timely, snow falling outside in wintry landscapes across Berlin and beyond, as it does onstage. Yet that immediately presents a greater untimeliness to the mise-en-scène, for a modern snowscape seems perversely distant from the Thessalian pastoral of Joseph Gregor’s libretto […]
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