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2023-12-18 12:00:07
Written after a long car journey north, the track became a favourite festive cover
2023-09-20 12:42:36
Image by Johnhuxley on Wikimedia Commons Johann Sebastian Bach stands as an iconic figure in the Rea
2023-09-09 09:10:00
Operatic arias & overtures by Frederick the GReat's court composer, Graun, in the opera house built by the king's sister
[…] new production at IF Opera -opera reviewBayreuth Festival Ring: Tony Cooper revisits Valentin Schwarz’ Ring cycle and relishes it second time around - opera reviewFollies of youthful passion: Umberto Giordano's Fedora at IF Opera with Sky Ingram and Charne Rochford - opera reviewKlaus Florian Vogt is exemplary in the title-role of Tannhäuser at the Bayreuth Festival - opera reviewProm 50: large-scale drama from Allan Clayton, Philharmonia Chorus, Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings in Handel's Samson - concert reviewThrust into a new age, the digital age: Augmented Reality in a ground-bReaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival - opera reviewRevenge is the name of the Dutchman’s game: Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival - opera reviewUnbound and Unleashed: Hubert Parry's cantata Prometheus Unbound gets the glorious first recording that it deserves - record reviewHome
2023-05-20 20:09:00
Wozzeck, Royal Opera, 19 May 2023
Royal Opera HouseWozzeck – Christian Gerhaher Marie – Anja Kampe Captain – Peter Hoare Doctor – Brindley Sherratt Margret – Rosie Aldridge Drum Major – Clay Hilley Andres – Sam Furness First Apprentice – Barnaby Rea Second Apprentice – Alex Otterburn The Fool – John Findon Soldier – Lee Hickenbottom Tenor Solo – Andrew Macnair Marie’s Son – Jonah Elijah McGovernDeborah Warner (director)Hyemi Shin (set designs)Nicky Gillibrand (costumes)Adam Silverman (lighting)Kim Brandstrup (choreography)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseAntonio Pappano (conductor)Images: Tristram KentonAndres (Sam Furness), Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher)Thirty years ago, in Sheffield, a teenage schoolboy saw his first opera in the theatre. It was Wozzeck, directed by Deborah Warner for Opera North. Quite an opera with which to begin, you might say, and indeed in many ways it was, yet why would you wish to begin with something that was not ‘quite an opera’? He knew a […]
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