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2022-10-17 16:26:49
“Meticulously shaped, beautifully tinted and propulsive”
Stefan Vinke brings to Tristan an indefatigable heldentenor of sturdy, muscular brilliance and a physical intensity that allowed him to fearlessly traverse this complex character’s broad emotional compass.
2022-04-16 15:00:36
Elektra
Live from the Met, Donald Runnicles conducts Nina Stemme (Elektra), Lise Davidsen (Chrysothemis), Michaela Schuster (Klytämnestra), Greer Grimsley (Orest), Stefan Vinke (Aegisth).
2020-10-09 06:26:12
Wagner 22: Oper Leipzig says farewell to its music director with all 13 of Wagner's operas
Wagner: The Ring - Siegfried - Oper Leipzig in 2018 (photo Tom_Schulze) In 2018, our correspondent Tony Cooper saw Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle at Oper Leipzig [see Tony's review], conducted by the company's music director and intendant, Prof. Ulf Schirmer. In 2022, Oper Leipzig will bid farewell to Prof. Schirmer with Wagner 22, a spectacular leaving present consisting of performances of all 13 of Richard Wagner's music dramas, with all the operas (except for the Ring Cycle) performed in chronological order, and the festival will include Wagner's three rarely performed early works, Die Feen, Das Liebesverbot and Rienzi. The Leipzig Gewandhausorchester will perform for all the events. To date, the list of confirmed guests includes Evelyn Herlitzius (Kundry), Jennifer Holloway, Lise Lindstrom, Daniela Sindram, Manuela Uhl, Markus Eiche, René Pape, Iain Paterson, Andreas Schager (Tristan), Stefan Vinke, Klaus Florian Vogt, and Michael Volle (Wotan in Das Rheingold). The event will […]
2020-06-01 07:09:55
Adventures on the Green Hill: with no Bayreuth Festival this year, Tony Cooper looks back at previous festivals
[…] of fire! Overtly contemporary, many of the scenes took place in scrubby rundown premises: a high-rise block, for instance, a discarded quarry, an empty school and a cut-down forest with a partially-built autobahn. All very new but for some, I’m afraid, too sensitive for their eyes! Herr Dorst was booed to bits at curtain-call but that’s often par for the course at Bayreuth. Wagner: Siegfried (Act 1) directed by Frank Castorf - Stefan Vinke (Siegfried), Andreas Conrad (Mime) - Bayreuth Festival 2017 (©Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath) But his Ring was not such a mind-blowing one as that conjured up by Berlin-based, avant-garde, theatre director, Frank Castorf, former Intendant of Berlin’s famed Volksbühne which I equally enjoyed. Staged in celebration of Wagner’s bicentenary in 2013, he delivered a Ring that proved so controversial that it made Dorst’s production look pretty tame in comparison. Committing sacrilege, he ditched […]
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