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Così fan tutte, Komische Oper, 14 January 2024
SchillertheaterImages: Monika RittershausFiordiligi – Penny Sofraniadou Dorabella – Susan Zarrabi Guglielmo – Hubert Zapiór Ferrando – Caspar Singh Despina – Alma Sadé Don Alfonso – Seth Carico Sempronio – Amer El-Erwadi Tizio – Goran JurenecDirector, set and costume designer – Kirill SerebrennikovImplementation of direction, choreography – Evgeny KulaginStaff director (Spielleitung) – Martha JurowskiCo-costume designer – Tatyana DolmatovskayaAssistant set designer – Nikolay SimonovDramaturgy – Beate Breidenbach, Maximilian HagemeyerLighting – Olaf FreeseVideo – Ilya ShagalovChoral Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: Jean-Christophe Charron) Orchestra of the Komische Oper Erina Yashima (conductor) There should never be a run-of-the-mill Così fan tutte: Mozart’s most exquisite opera, arguably his profoundest, and perhaps ultimately his greatest. (It is, at any rate, my current favourite, and not only because I heard it last.) This was certainly not it, whether in origin, direction, or performance. Indeed, this staging from Berlin’s Komische Oper is an outstanding achievement in almost every […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-03-12 19:04:41
‘You Know, It’s Going To Cost You Something’: Building A New Opera About The Police Shooting Of A Young Black Man
The quote is what composer Jeanine Tesori told bass Ken Kellogg about taking his role (the young man’s father, a police officer himself) in Blue, which Tesori wrote with librettist Tazewell Thompson for Glimmerglass Opera and Washington National Opera. Matthew Guerrieri meets Tesori, Thompson, and Kellogg at a rehearsal. – The Washington Post
2019-02-01 16:18:00
[…] big problem).Sylvan was so brave to kiss another man in public back then, and he came out publicly as gay in the 1990s, when almost no classical music world figures were out. This week's tributes are rightly remembering the grace of his singing and the beauty of his voice, his kindness to others, and his bravery. He will be very greatly missed as a musician and a human.Elsewhere: Boston Musical Intelligencer NPR Alex Ross Matthew Guerrieri
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-10-16 19:04:57
‘Automation Divine’: Early Computer Music And The Selling Of The Cold War
“Matthew Guerrieri dives deep into something particular about the early days of computer music in the United States. It got its start, quite literally, in the off-hour downtime of the military-industrial complex.”
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