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2022-08-04 17:19:00
Bayreuth Festival (3) - Siegfried, 3 August 2022
FestspielhausSiegfried – Andreas Schager Mime – Arnold Bezuyen Wanderer – Tomasz Koniezcny Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Fafner – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Erda – Okka von der Damerau Brünnhilde – Daniela Köhler Woodbird – Alexandra Steiner Young Hagen – Branko Buchberger Grane – Igor Schwab Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting)Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Cornelius Meister (conductor) This Siegfried made for pretty miserable music drama, I am afraid, the considerable qualities of the music ‘half’ notwithstanding. In a peculiar way, Wagner’s vision was vindicated. His works are not operas, nor are they intended to be. They may well impress in concert performances or in audio-only experiences at home—phenomena worthy of greater attention—but they need to impress musically and dramatically in the theatre, the whole so much more than the sum of its parts. One never knows what might be pulled out of […]
2022-08-01 11:45:00
Festspielhaus Wotan – Egils Silins Donner – Raimund Nolte Froh – Attilio Glaser Loge – Daniel Kirch Fricka – Christa Mayer Freia – Elisabeth Teige Erda – Okka von der Damerau Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Mime – Arnold Bezuyen Fasolt – Jens-Erik Aasbø Fafner – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Woglinde – Lea-ann Dunbar Wellgunde – Stephanie HoutzeelFlosshilde – Katie Stevenson Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Luis August Krawen (video) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Cornelius Meister (conductor) In der Erde Tiefe tagen die Nibelungen: Nibelheim ist ihr Land. Schwarzalben sind sie; Schwarz Alberich hütet’ als Herrscher sie einst!So begins the Wanderer’s answer to the first of Mime’s three riddles, in which notoriously the dwarf asks his unwelcome visitor questions he hopes will catch him out—they do not—thereby wasting the opportunity to ask the chief of the gods what he, Mime, actually needs to know. Mime […]
2019-10-04 12:23:00
Die lustigen Weiben von Windsor, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 3 October 2019
Images: Monika RittershausFrau Fluth (Mandy Friedrich) and Frau Reich (Michaela Schuster) Sir John Falstaff – René Pape Herr Fluth – Michael Volle Herr Reich – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Fenton – Pavol Breslik Junker Spärlich – Linard Vrielink Dr Cajus – David Oštrek Frau Fluth – Mandy Friedrich Frau Reich – Michaela Schuster Jungfer Anna Reich – Anna Prohaska First Citizen – Javier Bernando David Bösch (director) Patrick Bannwart (set designs) Falko Herold (costumes) Michael Bauer (lighting) Detlef Giese (dramaturgy) Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus master: Martin Wright) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) René Pape (Sir John Falstaff) and Chorus No one would seriously claim Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor to be a masterpiece; the only question, it seems, is whether one might occasionally bear it. In that sense – and probably a few others – it is riper for conversion into opera than […]
2019-08-20 07:07:26
A provocative production in so many ways, Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s Parsifal was sensitively directed and performed by a brilliant cast
Wagner: Parsifal - Ryan McKinny - Bayreuth Festival 2019 (photo Enrico Nawrath) Wagner Parsifal: Günther Groissböck, Ryan McKinny, Elena Pankratova, Andreas Schager, Wilhelm Schwinghammer, Derek Welton, dir: Uwe Eric Laufenberg, cond: Semyon Bychkov; Bayreuth Festival, Germany Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 5 July 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Gérard Naziri’s stardust ride through the Galaxy to the Land of the Grail proved a remarkable and visually-exciting video sequence Wagner: ParsifalElena Pankratova, Andreas SchagerBayreuth Festival 2019 (photo Enrico Nawrath) Specifically written for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage) not an opera thereby underlying the work’s deeply-religious overtones. The philosophical ideas of the libretto, however, fuses Christianity and Buddhism but the trappings of Wolfram von Eschenbach’s 13th-century poem - focusing on the Arthurian hero Parzival and his long quest for the Holy Grail - are […]
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