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2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
[…] Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were escaping war-torn Britain on a pacifist ticket, Peter Grimes was premièred by Sadler’s Wells Opera (later to become English National Opera) at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Islington, on 7 June 1945, conducted by Reginald Goodall with Peter Pears in the title-role. First seen in St Martin’s Lane in 2009, revived in 2014 with Edward Gardner in the pit, David Alden’s realization of Peter Grimes (assistant: Ian Rutherford) originally featured Stuart Skelton in the title-role who delivered a brilliant performance while this fine production won a South Bank Sky Arts Award shortly after its première. Now with this second (and welcome) revival, opening English National Opera’s 2023/24 season, conducted by Martyn Brabbins (ENO’s musical director), the role of Peter Grimes fell to British tenor, John Findon (replacing Gwyn Hughes Jones due to illness) plunging himself wholeheartedly into this lonesome and anguished character in a telling and […]
2023-07-26 14:27:00
Munich Opera Festival (5) - Tristan und Isolde, 21 July 2023
NationaltheaterTristan – Stuart Skelton King Marke – René Pape Isolde – Anja Kampe Kurwenal – Wolfgang Koch Melot – Sean Michael Plumb Brangäne – Jamie Barton Shepherd – Jonas Hacker Steersman – Christian Rieger Young Sailor – Liam Bonthrone Krzysztof Warlikowski (director) Malgorzata Szczęśniak (designs) Felice Ross (lighting) Kamil Polak (video) Claude Bardouil (choreography) Miron Hakenbeck, Lukas Leipfinger (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Johannes Knecht) Bavarian State Orchestra Lothar Koenigs (conductor)Images: Wilfried HöslTristan (Stuart Skelton) and Isolde (Anja Kampe) Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Tristan, first seen two years ago, marking an end to Nikolaus Bachler’s intendancy, is on first sight at least, a puzzling affair. There are ideas, certainly, though quite how they connect, let alone cohere, lay largely beyond me. They seemed, moreover, to bear precious relation to this most treacherous of works, perhaps the most resistant of all operas—if one may call it an opera at […]
2022-05-31 08:10:45
Premiered in Norwich in 1936, the Norfolk & Norwich Festival give a celebratory performance of Vaughan Williams' Five Tudor Portraits
[…] such in the Oxford Dictionary of Music) a series of concerts were held on an ad hoc basis in St Andrew’s Hall while an annual performance of an oratorio took place in Norwich Cathedral. Pairing the Britten Sinfonia with the Norwich Philharmonic Chorus, so well drilled by David Dunnett, Norwich Cathedral’s organist, proved a good call as they delivered a masterful reading of Five Tudor Portraits set to a text by Tudor poet, John Skelton, known as a ‘Skeltonic line’, embodying a short erratic rhyming verse probably descending from medieval Latin rhyming prose. By the way, Skelton, tutor to Prince Henry, afterwards King Henry VIII, was a ‘local’ born around 1460 probably in Diss in the last decade of the 15th century. He was appointed Rector of St Mary the Virgin in this important south Norfolk town in 1504 preaching the gospel here until his death in 1529. […]
2022-02-09 20:06:00
Original performance date: 2019. Conductor - Philippe Jordan; Siegmund - Stuart Skelton, Sieglinde - Eva-Maria Westbroek, Hunding - Gunther Groissbock, Wotan - Greer Grimsley, Brunnhilde - Christine Goerke, Fricka - Jamie Barton. Speaking of not sitting through a PBS documentary on Itzhak Perlman, what started as "let's see what it is like" turned into a full 4-hour viewing of this broadcast. I did lose my focus, especially during some of the more "boring" monologues and dialogues. We saw the Met 2019 Ring Cycle and the cast for the performance we saw was mostly the same as the one for this show. One notable exception was Michael Volle sang the role of Wotan in the performance we attended. Interesting, we saw Grimsley as Wotan in the very first Ring Cycle we attended, in 2009 in Seattle. I didn't write much about the performances then, but distinctly remember Grimsley as […]
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