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Rodin StatuesPalace of the Legion of Honor, San FranciscoAugust, 2018
2022-03-11 08:47:01
[…] (Friday 24th June) in his honour. All the performers taking part have connections to Knussen as a composer and conductor and the trio of concerts offers an introduction to his world and an upbeat to a concert by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth, comprising three pieces inspired by pictures and objects at art exhibitions by Mussorgsky, Respighi and, indeed, Knussen, whose unfinished work Cleveland Pictures will receive its first performance. From Rodin and Fabergé to Goya and Turner, each movement of Cleveland Pictures brilliantly translates a different item from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, into sound. Even in its incomplete form (15½ minutes) the work ranks as one of Knussen’s most extensive orchestral statements. Of seven projected movements, four exist complete, two exist as fully orchestrated fragments and one exists only as a ten-bar sketch in short score. The American première is […]
2022-02-21 10:32:39
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffAndrei Kymach as the dashing don leads an impressive cast in Welsh National Opera’s atmospheric but uneven revival of John Caird’s production Downright deceit, charm, wronged women determined to avenge, a raging storm … Mozart’s opera about the pathological liar and libertine could hardly seem more contemporary. When Welsh National Opera’s 2011 production was revived in 2018 – circa #MeToo – it appeared timely, but, with this latest revival, perhaps the reality is that it will always be so. Designer John Napier’s set, inspired by Auguste Rodin’s The Gates of Hell, creates the suitably tenebrous background to original director John Caird’s concept, underlining what is already the spoiler-alert of the title, Don Giovanni or The Dissolute Punished. The ironically whiter-than-white garb of the dashing don and the grey of his servant Leporello go against the setting’s general darkness, while the other costumes reflect the burnished colours of Spanish […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2020-11-15 09:15:30
As galleries auction off treasures to retain staff and plug cash gaps left by Covid, the art world is divided on ethics of disposal Going up close to a great work of art, perhaps to Auguste Rodin’s full-height sculpture of a shy Eve, is a rare pleasure in a neighbourhood gallery, especially since opening hours are now restricted by the pandemic. The Southampton City Art Gallery is one of those municipal buildings with perhaps more than its fair share of unexpected treats due to the bequest of a local chemist and businessman called Robert Chipperfield. He died rich in 1911, instructing his legacy to be spent on filling up a new gallery with top-notch pieces like Eve. Just over a decade ago the city considered selling valuable works including its Rodin sculpture, then worth just over £1million, to fund other projects, but the sale was stopped by a petition and a […]
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