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2023-10-27 10:42:00
Carmen, Deutsche Oper, 26 October 2023
Carmen – Aigul Akhmetshina Don José – David Butt Philip Micaëla – Maria Motolygina Escamillo – Byung Gil Kim Zuniga – Christian Simmons Moralès – Dean Murphy Frasquita – Meechot Marrero Mercédès – Arianna Manganello Dancaïro – Artur Garbas Remendado – Kieran Carrel Lillas Pastia – Dean Street Mercédès’s daughter – Fatima HammadOle Anders Tandberg (directo)Erlend Birkeland (set designs)Maria Geber (costumes)Ellen Ruge (lighting)Silke Sense (choreography)Children’s Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (chorus director: Christian Lindhorst)Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (chorus director: Jeremy Bines) Orchestra of the Deutsche OperBen Glassberg (conductor)Images from 2018 original production with different cast: © Marcus LieberenzHmmm. I think I could see, some of the time, what Ole Anders Tandberg was trying to do in his 2018 Deutsche Oper production of Carmen. There were some reasonable ideas, some less so, and some that were frankly terrible. Next to Dmitri Tcherniakov’s brilliant reimagining of the work for Aix the previous year, […]
2023-08-12 11:30:16
The week in classical: Proms 30: Sinfonia of London/Wilson; Prom 31: Dialogues of the Carmelites; Oxford piano festival – review
Royal Albert Hall, London; various venues, OxfordThe Albert Hall swooned to the sound of the Sinfonia of London and was silenced by Glyndebourne’s semi-staged Poulenc, while in Oxford you couldn’t move for great pianistsHurling all into the ether, detonating every orchestral sound he could Muster, William Walton achieved a feat of whirring ingenuity in his Symphony No 1 (1931-5). The giddy first movement, now sour, now tumultuous; the malicious presto; the melancholy respite of the third movement: each compels, but nothing matches the hair-raising abundance of the finale, from its first, eddying ascent to the assault of the six thunderous chords that bring it to a close. In last weekend’s Proms performance by the
2021-10-15 16:50:53
Today’s album is an especially colorful piece, organist Thilo Muster‘s world premiere recording of Eberhard Klotz’s transcription of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, streaming at Spotify. Beginning around two centuries ago and for many decades afterward, it was common for European organists to play music written for symphony orchestra, for audiences in small […]
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2020-12-10 17:31:53
A 2020 Best Theatre List Requires Expanding Your Mind
Peter Marks: “Putting the most positive spin I can Muster on the stricken field I cover — identifying the best of what has transpired in the worst of theatrical times — requires a look beyond play X and musical Y.” – Washington Post
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