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2019-04-20 10:30:00
Platée, Semperoper Dresden, 16 April 2019
Semperoper Images: Semperoper Dresden/Ludwig OlahPlatée (Philippe Talbot), La Folie (Inga Kalna) Platée – Philippe Talbot Cithéron, Satyr – Giorgio Caoduro Jupiter – Andreas Wolf Junon – Ute Selbig Mercure, Thespis – Mark Milhofer Momus – Sebastian Wartig Thalie, Clarine – Iulia Maria Dan La Folie – Inga Klana Amour – Tania Lorenzo Two Menads – Katharina Flade, Hyunduk Na Rolando Villazón (director) Harald Tor (set designs) Susanne Hubrich (costumes) Philippe Giraudeau (choreography) Davy Cunningham (lighting) Kai Weßler (dramaturgy) Dancers Sächsische Staatsopernchor Dresden (chorus director: Cornelius Volke) Säschsische Staatskapelle Dresden Paul Agnew (conductor) I did not ever think I should live to hear the Staatskapelle Dresden play Rameau, let alone with such verve and sensitivity, such vigour and style as here. Outside France, occasions are still relatively rare to see Rameau’s operas staged: far rarer than they should be for […]
2018-10-04 12:04:00
Le nozze di Figaro, Semperoper Dresden, 30 September 2018
Count Almaviva – Sebastian Wartig Countess Almaviva – Iulia Maria Dan Susanna – Athanasia Zöhrer Figaro – Martin-Jan Nijhof Cherubino – Grace Durham Marcellina – Sabine Brohm Bartolo – Matthias Henneberg Don Basilio – Aaron Pegram Barbarina – Tahnee Niboro Don Curzio – Gerald Hupacj Antonio – Chao Deng Bridesmaids – Beate Apitz, Heike Liebmann Johannes Erath (director) Katrin Connan (set designs) Birgit Wensch (costumes) Noëlle Blancpain (revival director, costumes) Fabio Antoci (lighting) Francis Hüsers (dramaturgy) Dancers Saxon State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Cornelius Volke) Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden Kristiina Poska (conductor) Rarely can an opera house run on full cylinders night in, night out – especially when the night before has entailed a Moses und Aron premiere. One would not necessarily expect a starry Elektraor, indeed, a starry Figaro to follow. If the performative musical side of this Marriage of Figaro rarely scaled the heights, nor was […]
2018-02-13 07:46:28
Erich Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Semperoper, Dresden
[…] Georges Rodenbach and set to a libretto by Paul Schott, a collective pseudonym for the composer and his father, Julius Korngold. By the time of its première, Korngold was just 23 years old. David Bösch's production, the first time the work has been given at the Semperoper in Dresden, debuted in December 2017. On 2 February 2018, conducted by Dmitri Jurowski the performance featured Burkhard Fritz and Manuela Uhl as Paul and Marietta, with Sebastian Wartig as Frank/Fritz and Tichina Vaughn as Brigitta. Mahler described Korngold as a ‘musical genius’ and recommended him study with the celebrated Viennese-born composer, Alexander von Zemlinsky. Richard Strauss also spoke highly of him, too. Praise, indeed! Overcoming the loss of a loved one, the theme of Die tote Stadt, resonated with contemporary audiences of the 1920s who had just come through the trauma and grief of the First World War. This most probably […]
2016-05-15 17:38:37
Shooting in low light
[…] type, he is as commanding a musical and theatrical presence as I had hoped, pouring his arresting squid-ink-colored tone into Kaspar’s machinations, and physically resembling a younger Max von Sydow (circa Winter Light). The props he has to drag around may be laughable, but he never is. Four smaller male roles are in good to excellent hands. Veteran bass-baritone Albert Dohmen makes a solid contribution and is just vocally craggy enough as Kuno. Baritone Sebastian Wartig, only 26 at the time, sings the brief role of Max’s rival Kilian so heroically and with such beautifully inflected words that he seems out of step with the juvenile stage business he has to carry out. Bass Andreas Bauer, the Hermit, is in the tough spot of showing up at the tail end of a show that has been well served for lower male voices, but he is shrewdly cast. He brings a […]
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