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opera company located in Montpellier, France
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Wagner: Die Walkure - Act Three - Claire Barnett-Jones, Elisabeth Teige, Catherine Foster, Christa Mayer, Stephanie Houtzeel - Bayreuth Festival 2023 (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen; Aile Asszonyi, Hailey Clark, Okka von der Damerau, Markus Eiche, Catherine Foster, Mika Kares, Daniel Kirch, Daniela Köhler, Tomasz Konieczny, Christa Mayer, Andreas Schager, Olafur Sigurdarson, Elisabeth Teige, Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, dir: Valentin Schwarz; cond: Pietari Inkinen; Bayreuth Festival. Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 28 August 2023Finnish-born conductor, Pietari Inkinen, proudly walked the Grüner Hügel this year to conduct the complete Ring following his 2021 festival début with Die Walküre. Austrian stage director, Valentin Schwarz - who came to prominence in tandem with set designer Andrea Cozzi after winning the 2017 Ring Award - made his Bayreuth Festival début with this Ring cycle last year which received a mixed reception although it’s faring much better this year, conducted by […]
2017-12-23 06:30:00
Classical Music News of the Week, December 23, 2017
Artist Kevork Mourad to Bring a Contemporary Perspective to Handel's Israel in EgyptA new production of Handel's Israel in Egypt by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad aims to present the oratorio's story of human diaspora through a contemporary lens. The one-night-only performance on Sunday, February 11 will be conducted by Grant Gershon, the Master Chorale's Kiki and David Gindler Artistic Director, and feature 80 singers and 7 soloists. In addition to creating animated projections for Walt Disney Concert Hall for the performance, Mourad will be on stage, creating his paintings in real-time to be projected as he draws them. Born in Syria of Armenian descent, New York-based Mourad is committed to highlighting the current Syrian refugee crisis in his work. With Israel in Egypt, he aims to explore parallels between the exodus of the Israelites and the plagues that besieged Egypt, as chronicled in the […]
2015-09-07 21:09:58
Moor than a feeling
[…] has been performed from Montpellier (the source of today’s upload, starring Israeli bass-baritone Boaz Daniel and adventuresome American soprano Laura Aikin as Emily Brontë‘s doomed lovers Heathcliff and Cathy) to Minnesota to Braunschweig. Don’t be surprised if some of it sounds familiar: Herrmann borrowed some music composed from, among others, Citizen Kane and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and later recycled bits of it into Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Marnie. Bernard Herrmann: Wuthering Heights Opéra national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon Alain Altinoglu, conductor Opera Berlioz, Montpellier 14 July 2010 Heathcliff – Boaz Daniel Catherine Earnshaw – Laura Aikin Hindley Earnshaw – Vincent Le Texier Nelly Dean – Hanna Schaer Edgar Linton – Yves Saelens Isabelle Linton – Marianne Crebassa Joseph – Jerome Varnier Mr Lockwood – Nicolas Cavallier Hareton Earnshaw – Gaspard Ferret
2014-06-30 11:00:33
Lawrence Foster in Shanghai
What Conductor Lawrence Foster and Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Holloway will be in Shanghai on the 13th on July for a one night concert. They will perform pieces from Fauré, Bizet, and Gounod. Tickets start at 80rmb and go up to 880rmb for seat. Who Lawrence Foster was born in October 23, 1941, in Los Angeles, California and is an American conductor of Romanian ancestry. He started his carear as the conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, and served as Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. Since 2002, Foster has been the music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Lisbon. He has served as music director of the Orchestre National de Montpellier and the Opéra national de Montpellier since September 2009. In February 2012, Foster was announced as the next music director of l’Opéra de Marseille and the Orchestre philharmonique de Marseille, beginning […]
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