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A vivid and restless talent: music by Serbian composer Isidora Žebeljan in the first disc issued after her death last year
[…] she went on to become professor of composition at the same faculty in 2002. As well as five operas, Zora D, The Marathon, Simon the Chosen, Two Heads and a Girl, and Simon the Foundling she wrote a considerable amount of incidental music for the theatre, including for the National Theatre in Belgrade and Belgrade Dramatic Theatre. Her opera Zora D (2002/2003) premiered in Amsterdam in June 2003 (a co-production between Opera studio Nederland and Wiener Kammeroper) directed by David Pountney. It was the first Serbian opera that had a world premiere abroad and the first Serbian opera that has been staged outside Serbia since 1935. The compilation opens with the violin concerto Three Curious Loves which was written for the violinist Daniel Rowland who performs it here from the Stift Festival in 2017 with the Stift Festival Orchestra conducted by David Cohen. I am not sure what the […]
2017-08-14 16:02:43
All they are saying is give peace a chance
[…] serialist techniques and large tuned percussion sections which permeate his next and final opera, Death in Venice. About the work’s pacifist message, Britten labeled it his response to the Vietnam War. A stage premiere at Covent Garden in 1973 was a failure and the opera lay neglected till the end of the century. After a 1997 Glyndebourne revival, the work, often performed with reduced orchestration, has been given in London, Chicago, Vienna (by the now-defunct Wiener Kammeroper), and in Frankfurt in 2010 in a production by Walter Sutcliffe, the source of this week’s performance. Just as Henze conceived Prinz Friedrich Artur von Homburg for a lyric baritone, Owen Wingrave is performed by Michael Nagy, who shot to stardom as Wolfram von Eschenbach, one of the few saving graces of Bayreuth’s Tannhäuser from 2011 through 2013 (incidentally, Wolfram was the role of Christian Gerhaher’s Wiener Staatsoper debut in the premiere of […]
2016-08-29 16:41:28
Beyond the forest
[…] romantic piece of music ever conceived. In Vixen, Stösslová is also conjured by the drunken infatuation expressed by the Forrester, Schoolmaster, and Pastor with the (usually) unseen village girl Terynka, always out of grasp. My love affair with the opera began with the 1981 New York City Opera production with fanciful designs by children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak with Gianna Rolandi as Vixen Sharp-Ears. I have subsequently seen productions at the Bregenzer Festspiele, Wiener Kammeroper, two productions at Prague’s Národní divadlo, and, most recently, Otto Schenk’s lovely 2014 production at Wiener Staatsoper, the company’s premiere of the opera, which opened six days after the veteran director’s 84th birthday. At 74, Heinz Zednik was persuaded to don the Rooster’s comb and plumes and strut his stuff in the barnyard. The opera contains some of the most glorious music ever written, particularly the animal kingdom’s joyous wedding celebration for Vixen […]
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