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2020-02-10 07:27:48
Les vêpres Siciliennes: Verdi's French Grand Opera makes a rare appearance in Welsh National Opera's striking new production
Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes - Wojtek Gierlach, Anush Hovhannisyan, Jung Soo Yun Welsh National Opera (Photo Johan-Person) Verdi Les vêpres Siciliennes; Anush Hovhannisyan, Jung Soo Yun, Giorgio Caoduro, Wojtek Gierlach, dir: David Pountney, cond: Carlo Rizzi; Welsh National Opera at Wales Millennium Centre Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 February 2020 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) Verdi's French Grand Opera makes a rare appearance in the UK, in a powerful evening from WNO Verdi: Les vêpres siciliennes - Wojtek GierlachWelsh National Opera (Photo Johan-Person) Apart from Otello, during Verdi's lifetime when his operas were performed at the Paris Opera they were given in French often in revised version with ballet which brought the works closer to the Paris Opera's concept of Grand Opera. Three times, Verdi created a work specially for the Paris Opera, crafting operas which, with their historical setting, large crowd scenes, scope for […]
2020-02-04 07:29:24
New operas, a new team - Welsh National Opera approaches its 75th anniversary
[…] with Rebecca Evans and Lucia Cervoni returning as the Marschallin and Octavian, plus Soraya Mafi and Julie Martin Du Theil as Sophie, and Andrea Silvestrelli as Baron Ochs.Fuchs is on duty again for Spring 2021's new production, Gounod's Faust, which is one of the first works to be performed by the fledgling WNO and marks the beginning of the 75 birthday celebrations. Alexander Joel conducts and the cast includes Jung Soo Yun as Faust, Wojtek Gierlach as Méphistophélès, Natalya Pavlova as Marguérite, Gareth Brynmor John as Valentin and Katie Bray as Siébel. There is no word yet of which version of the opera is being used grand opera/opera comique, recitative/spoken dialogue, ballet/no ballet, but it is a production with Teater Magdeburg (as was Fuchs' Der Rosenkavalier) so we can expect something rather interesting.The Spring season is completed with a revival of Peter Watson's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore conducted by […]
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2020-02-02 16:37:00
The best new classical albums: January 2020
[…] described as "essential listening... SOMM and the Dantes have broken important new ground with impressive commitment" by Gramophone and by Limelight as being "played with great élan and sensitivity by the excellent Dante Quartet".SOMM's championing of Stanford's chamber music will be completed by new recordings of his String Quintets Nos. 1 and 2 which are scheduled for release in late 2020.Source: somm-recordings.com Stanislaw Moniuszko: Cantatas – Milda / NijolaWioletta Chodowicz, sopranoMaria Jaskulska-Chrenowicz, sopranoEwa Wolak, mezzo-sopranoSylwester Smulczyński, tenorRobert Gierlach, baritoneSzymon Kobyliński, bassPodlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra Conductor: Łukasz Borowicz Recorded at Adam Mickiewicz University Auditorium, Concert Hall of the Poznań Philharmonic, Poland, August 26-30, 2019Released on January 4, 2020 by Dux The Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko studied in Berlin with Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, the director of the Singakademie, and thus developed a great love for choral music. Although in 1840 Vilnius was no longer part of […]
2018-04-28 09:19:18
Thrilling revival: Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk at Covent Garden
[…] with his wife.The strength of the production was partly the way these fine characters were surrounded by a welter of smaller ones, all strongly and characterfully etched, so that the whole told very well. Mikhail Svetlov made a disturbingly comic yet serious police inspector, his solo one of the highlights of the evening. Rose Aldridge's Aksinsya was here given a larger, non-speaking role in the discovery of the body by Peter Bronder's lively peasant. Wojteck Gierlach managed to make quite striking moments of the priests two small appearances, and brought some interestingly suggestive hints to his interpretation. Other soloists included Jon Bernays as the Workman from the Mill, Hubert Francis as the Coachman, SImon Shibambu as the steward and sentry, Jonathan Fisher as the porter, Luke Price, Hubert Francis and Donaldson Bell as workmen, Jonathan Fisher as a policemen, Thomas Atkins as a teacher, Lee Hickenbottom as the drunken guest. A […]
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