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2024-04-15 07:42:20
Why do certain pianists play so fast? Because they can. That crossed my mind while hearing Daniil Trifonov and his erstwhile teacher Sergei Babayan Tear through the Rachmaninov Suite No. 2’s Waltz and Tarantella movements at record speed. To their credit, the pianists achieve this feat with the utmost control, as the swirling inner lines […]
2024-03-02 13:00:30
Coliseum; Hackney Empire, LondonThe anarchy and invention of Simon McBurney’s Mozart production triumphs as ENO plays on; Puccini gets a rough ride at English Touring Opera. Plus, the pros and cons of Radio 3’s new scheduleA precipitous stage that tips and tilts like a raft lost in a stormy sea; glugging, gurgling sound effects; chalk words animated on live video; paper birds given flight by scurrying figures in black; trials of fire and flood that appear to engulf the entire theatre. The orchestra sits raised above the pit, solo flautist stepping from her seat to provide true enchantment as the story demands. At times the audience too – terror upon terror – is on the verge of participation as characters Tear through the auditorium. Mozart and his librettist, the actor-impresario Emanuel Schikaneder, would have loved the pantomimic theatricality, the anarchy and invention and illusion, of English National Opera’s
2023-12-04 14:03:00
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Deutsche Oper, 3 December 2023
Hans Sachs – Johan Reuter Veit Pogner – Albert Pesendorfer Kunz Vogelgesang – Gideon Poppe Konrad Nachtigall – Marek Reichert Sixtus Beckmesser – Philipp Jekal Fritz Kothner – Thomas Lehman Balthasar Zorn – Jörg Schörner Ulrich Eißlinger – Patrick Vogel Augustin Moser – Paul Kaufmann Hermann Ortel – Stephen Bronk Hans Schwarz – Tobias Kehrer Hans Foltz – Byung Gil Kim Walther von Stolzing – Magnus Vigilius David – Ya-Chung Huang Eva – Elena Tsallagova Magdalena – Kathrin Göring Night Watchman – Tobias Kehrer Apprentices – Agata Kornaga, Freya Müller, Kangyoon Shine Lee, Yehui Jeong, Oleksandra Diachenko, Natalie Jurk, Jongwoo Hong, Thoma Jaron-Wutz, Leon Juurlink, Kyoungloul Kim, Sotiris Charalampous, Simon GrindbergJossi Wieler, Anna Viebrock, Sergio Morabito (directors)Torsten Köpf (co-set designer)Charlotte Pistorius (co-costume designer)Olaf Freese (lighting) Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines)Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinUlf Schirmer (conductor)Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, premiere am 12.6.2022 in der […]
2023-08-30 09:00:21
With David Geffen Hall open, Lincoln Center’s leader is working to diversify programming, staff and audiences and engage the city. But some worry about what’s being lost.
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