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2016-10-04 15:00:48
Park and bark
Like Orest, I return to this house. Six months after the Met’s acclaimed new production had parterre preoccupied with all things Elektra, we have a C-Major DVD of something entirely different. The Catalan theatrical collective La Fura dels Baus created—for “staged” does not seem appropriate—an open-air Elektra for NorrlandsOperan in August 2014. Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s opera plays out on, around and high above a 200-meters-wide stage within the vast space of a Swedish industrial park, Umestan företagspark. The maids gossip and squabble at twilight. One hundred minutes later, Agamemnon’s three surviving children watch as Klytämnestra and Aegisth, or their parade-float representations, burn against a black night sky. Any filmed performance of Elektra will be taking place in a modern world, but in an indoor Elektra, whether it is staged in a distant period or it is updated or abstract, one’s view is focused on a world devised by the director […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-05-27 11:34:16
Woman conductors: The power list
[…] Mälkki, 47, chief conductor Helsinki Philharmonic; principal guest, LA Phil 5 Emmanuelle Haim, 54, founder Le Concert d’Astrée, France 6 Xian Zhang, 43, music director New Jersey Symphony 7 Han-na Chang , 33, ex-Qatar Philharmonic, now Trondheim Symphony 8 Ewa Strusińska, 39, music director Szczecin Philharmonic Orchestra, Poland 9 Anu Tali, 43, music director Sarasota Orchestra 10 Alondra de la Parra, 35, music director Queesland Symphony, Australia. 11 Elim Chan , 29, music director at NorrlandsOperan in Umeå, Sweden 12 Jo-Ann Falletta, 62, Buffalo Philharmonic 13 Gemma New, 28, Hamilton Philharmonic, Canada 14 Tania Miller, 47, Victoria Symphony, Canada 15 Julia Jones, 55, Generalmusikdirektor, Wuppertal, Germany 16 Karen Kamensek, 46, ex-music director Hannover State Opera 17 Karina Cannelakis, 34, Solti prize winner 18 Sarah Ioannides, 19 Joana Carneiro, 39, principal conductor, Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa 20 Kristiina Poska, 37, first kapellmeister at the Komische Oper, Berlin Readers’ additions: 21. […]
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