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2019-11-07 15:00:06
Vermillion/Lehtipuu/Brandt/WDR Choir & SO/Eötvös/Santa Cecilia O/Pappano (Wergo)Eötvös’s oratorio, though influenced by the story and music of a medieval monk, is in reality a wry take on modern’s life’s babble Halleluja,
2019-04-03 06:20:36
Beyond Frankenstein: I chat to Emmy award winning sound-designer and composer Mark Grey after the premiere of his opera Frankenstein in Brussels
Mark Grey has a fascinating twin career, he is a sound designer and a composer. As a sound designer he was won an Emmy and collaborated regularly with composer John Adams, whilst as a composer Mark's first opera Frankenstein has just finished is world premiere run at La Monnaie in Brussels, and his symphony based on the opera will be heard in Rome in April (At the Auditorium Parco della Musica on 13 April 2019). I recently caught up with Mark, via Skype, to find out more.Frankenstein premiered at La Monnaie on 8 March 2019 in a production by Àlex Ollé (of La Fura dels Baus) and conducted by Bassem Akiki, with a libretto by Julia Canosa, featuring Topi Lehtipuu as the creature and Scott Hendricks as Victor Frankenstein. Mark feels that the performances have gone incredibly well, sold out with good audience reaction and largely positive press coverage. Mark […]
2016-10-06 00:39:00
Pop quiz: Who wrote the following excerpts from certain NY Times opera reviews? 1. The main character is a historical figure, Notker Balbulus (Notker the Stammerer), a ninth-century monk, musician and poet from Switzerland. Notker (sung poignantly by the tenor Topi Lehtipuu) is called Prophet in the text; he has wide-ranging exchanges with a jaded male angel (sung by a woman, the earthy-voiced mezzo-soprano Iris Vermillion), who has not been sober, he explains, since getting drunk long ago with Nietzsche. A blowhard narrator (the imposing actor Peter Simonischek, in a speaking role) dominates the oratorio, which unfolds in four parts, each asking a big question: “Who are we?” “Where are we?” “What do we want?” “What are we silent about?”2. The suave baritone Nicola Alaimo was almost miscast as the hapless Taddeo, singing with elegance and richness of tone.The sunny-voiced soprano Ying Fang perfectly inhabited the part of Elvira, Mustafà’s jilted, […]
2016-09-19 01:00:00
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Mass in C minor K.427, revised by L. Langrée Masonic Funeral Music K.477 Natalie Dessay, Véronique Gens, Topi Lehtipuu, Luca Pisaroni Le Concert d'Astrée Louis Langrée Virgin 00956 359309 2 4 (2006) [flac, cue, log, scans]
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