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2024-02-11 17:00:24
Hamlet
Louis Langrée conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Stéphane Degout, Jodie Devos, Renée Tatum, and Raymond Aceto in a broadcast of Ambroise Thomas’s opera from last fall
2023-07-09 11:39:00
Le nozze di Figaro, Royal Opera, 8 July 2023
Royal Opera HouseFigaro – Mattia Olivieri Susanna – Siobhan Stagg Bartolo – Maurizio Muraro Marcellina – Dorothea Röschmann Cherubino – Anna Stéphany Count Almaviva – Stéphane Degout Don Basilio – Krystian Adam Countess Almaviva – Hrachuhí Bassénz Antonio – Jeremy White Don Curzio – Peter Bronder Barbarina – Sarah Dufresne Two Bridesmaids – Helen Withers, Miranda WestcottDavid McVicar (director)Tanya McCallin (designs)Paule Constable (lighting)Leah Hausman (movement)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseJoana Mallwitz (conductor)Images: Clive BardaCherubino (Anna Stéphany), Figaro (Mattia Olivieri), Susanna (Siobhan Stagg) ‘Figaro is the opera that a critic sees most often, and it is right that it should be.’ An opera critic I greatly admire wrote those words concerning a relatively early outing for this production in 2008. Michael Tanner proceeded to commend Charles Mackerras’s conducting of that revival of David McVicar’s staging, first seen in the Mozart Year of 2006, comparing it favourably […]
2022-07-04 06:06:00
Ravel: Concertos & Melodies (CD review)
Piano Concerto in G major; Don Quiehotte a Dulcinee; Deux Melodies hebraiques; Pavane pour une infante defunte; Trois Poems de Stephane Mallarme; Concerto for the Left Hand in D major; Sainte. Cedric Tiberghien, piano; Stephane Degout, baritone; Francois-Xavier Roth, Les Siecles. Harmonia Mundi HMM 902612.By John J. PuccioAlthough we’ve had quite a few recordings of French composer Maurice Ravel’s (1875-1937) music over the years, I don’t think I’ve ever heard one quite like this. The difference is in this recording’s use of original instruments. First, the French classical pianist Cedric Tiberghien, who takes the solo parts, uses a Pleyel piano from 1892, an instrument on which Ravel’s music might well have been played in his lifetime. Second, Francois-Xavier Roth leads his period-instrument band Les Siecles (“The Centuries”) in as historically accurate performance as possible. It helps, too, of course, that these are splendid interpretations of the material, making for a good […]
2022-02-18 23:02:00
This is the production I saw three years ago in Paris, during the 350th anniversary season of the Paris Opera. It was a season of big operas, including Tristan und Isolde (the Peter Sellars "Tristan Experience," with videos by Bill Viola), Les Huguenots, and Rusalka. The cast for Troyens was something: Brandon Jovanovich, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Stéphan Degout, Christian Van Horn, and others, with a production by Dmitri Tcherniakov that I liked and found thought-provoking, though I did not like the cuts. You can now stream this on the web site of the Opera National de Paris for $7.99. (I hope that it doesn't turn out that I need a VPN because they're in Europe.) You can read a review of the production at Mark Berry's blog Boulezian. I interviewed Jovanovich and Van Horn during the Troyens run.
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