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2022-08-04 14:16:02
The Nationaltheater Mannheim has named Italian conductor Roberto Rizzi Brignoli as the successor to current Music Director Alexander Soddy. Brignoli will begin in the 2023-24 season. A native Italian, Brignoli initially studied the piano at Milan's Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory. He began his conducting career as the assistant to Riccardo Muti at the Teatro alla […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-07-03 19:30:54
He will succeed Juraj Valcuha, music director of the opera’s orchestra since 2016. Ettinger made his debut in Tel Aviv in 1999. From 2003 to 2009, he was Kapellmeister and assistant at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden. Previous engagements include conducting the Nationaltheater Mannheim and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In tandem with his new position, he will […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-05-09 15:31:18
A Life On-Line: reinventing Josquin, rare late Richard Strauss, early Handel on TV, Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Elgar, Britten & Tippett
[…] was a very European composer. It started beautifully intimate, and though there were vivid moments this was a performance where intimacy and detail counted. When it was expansive, the music was never pompous, the image of the Edwardian gentleman that Elgar was fond of projecting was a long way away, and the emotional side of the composer was to the fore. [Philharmonia] Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie - Sophie Rennert as Phèdre - Nationaltheater Mannheim We ended the week in Mannheim where we caught Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie in a staging from the Nationaltheater Mannheim directed by Lorenzo Fioroni and conducted by Bernhard Forck. This was a very modern take indeed, not just Fiorini's iconography but the fact that the planned staging in 2020 was cancelled due to restrictions and this performance (recorded on 21 and 24 April 2021 without an audience) was a reworked version of […]
2019-04-28 08:22:33
Freshness & energy: Victoria Stevens on her new Le nozze di Figaro at the New Generation Festival in Florence
[…] his leading lady, Figaro as the cinematographer etc. Something that Victoria feels works out nicely.As the production takes place out of doors, set in a beautiful garden, Victoria is trying to work with the setting, and the production almost stars parts of the garden itself. One of the challenges which they are working on is how to make the projections work given the extended daylight hours! Staging rehearsal of Puccini's La BohemeVictoria Stevens at Nationaltheater Mannheim with conductor Alexander Soddy Victoria trained originally as a singer, so as a director she feels that this informs the way she works and helps to give her an insight into the process singers use to insert themselves into a character. And she likes to think that this insight makes her sensitive to what singers need, for example at the most basic level, an awareness of what positions a sing can and can't […]
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