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2024-03-15 09:42:00
Almost an expressionist nightmare: Janáček's Jenůfa at ENO with Jennifer Davis in the title role
[…] hang over the whole enterprise. But this revival, directed by David Alden, with movement director Maxine Braham, seemed to be a stake in the sand, showing what ENO does best. Conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson, the cast included Jennifer Davis as Jenůfa, Susan Bullock as the Kostelnička, Richard Trey Smagur as Laca, John Findon as Števa and Fiona Kimm as Grandmother Burya. Set designs are by Charles Edwards with costumes by Jon Morrell, lighting by Adam Silverman revived by Gary James. The work was sung in the classic Edward Downes and Otakar Kraus translation.Jennifer Davis, who sang Jenůfa, is a singer who impressed in the title role of Dvořák's Armida at Wexford in 2022 [see my review]. Armida premiered in 1904 in Prague, just three months after the first performance of Jenůfa in Brno. Janáček was only 13 years younger than Dvořák yet the dramatic approaches of the two operas […]
2023-10-10 06:41:00
John Findon takes the title role in ENO's magnificent revival of David Alden's production of Britten's Peter Grimes
[…] while getting the better of Mrs Sedley in their exchange of banned substances. Apart from Ellen Orford the only other friend that Grimes could call on is retired old seadog, Captain Balstrode, boldly and authoritatively sung by Simon Bailey, who, despairingly, tells Grimes to go. Therefore, guilt-ridden and driven to near insanity following the death of his apprentices, he vanishes towards the open sea on an uncertain voyage, the scene so well illuminated by Adam Silverman’s moody lighting scenario (revival: Gary James) creating an overall stage picture of an eerie whitish-grey sky depicting so well an unsettled Suffolk seascape. The end of Grimes. A person greatly misunderstood brought down by a load of busybodies, bigots and betrayers - and more! The next morning, fresh as a daisy, the Borough begins its day anew as if nothing has happened. A report circulates from the coastguard of a ship sinking off the […]
2023-05-20 20:09:00
Wozzeck, Royal Opera, 19 May 2023
Royal Opera HouseWozzeck – Christian Gerhaher Marie – Anja Kampe Captain – Peter Hoare Doctor – Brindley Sherratt Margret – Rosie Aldridge Drum Major – Clay Hilley Andres – Sam Furness First Apprentice – Barnaby Rea Second Apprentice – Alex Otterburn The Fool – John Findon Soldier – Lee Hickenbottom Tenor Solo – Andrew Macnair Marie’s Son – Jonah Elijah McGovernDeborah Warner (director)Hyemi Shin (set designs)Nicky Gillibrand (costumes)Adam Silverman (lighting)Kim Brandstrup (choreography)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseAntonio Pappano (conductor)Images: Tristram KentonAndres (Sam Furness), Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher)Thirty years ago, in Sheffield, a teenage schoolboy saw his first opera in the theatre. It was Wozzeck, directed by Deborah Warner for Opera North. Quite an opera with which to begin, you might say, and indeed in many ways it was, yet why would you wish to begin with something that was not ‘quite an opera’? He knew a […]
2022-04-30 05:07:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 30, 2022
[…] concert program, “Bach and Quantz: Concertos for Flute, Violin, and Keyboard,” remains unchanged, with flutists Jennifer Gunn and John Thorne featured in Quantz’s Concerto for 2 Flutes in G Minor, QV 6:8, and violinist Desirée Ruhstrat as soloist in Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042.Both Bach Week concerts are at 7:30 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL.For more information about the Bach Week Festival, visit https://bachweek.org/--Nathan J. Silverman Co. PRMinnesota Orchestra Announces 2022-23 Season ProgrammingThe Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that pairs the music of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mendelssohn alongside newer compositions by Alberga, Mazzoli, and Montgomery; spotlights masterpieces of the piano repertoire; and features a major world premiere by composer Carlos Simon and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph called brea(d)th that embraces the aspiration of racial equity through music-centered community healing.Running from September 2022 to June 2023, the […]
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