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2021-08-31 12:14:00
Œdipe, Komische Oper, 29 August 2021
Images: Monika RittershausŒdipe (Leigh Melrose), Jocaste (Karolina Gumos), Laïos (Christoph Späth) Œdipe – Leigh Melrose Tirésias – Jens Larsen Créon – Joachum Goltz High Priest – Vazgen Gazaryan Night Watchman – Shavleg Armasi Shepherd – Johannes Dunz Laïos – Christoph Späth Jocaste – Karolina Gumos Sphinx – Katarina Bradić Antigone – Mirka Wagner Mérope – Susan Zarrabi Evgeny Titov (director)Rufus Didwiszus, Charlotte Spichalsky (set designs)Eva Dessecker (costumes)Ulrich Lenz (dramaturgy) Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin (chorus director: David Cavelius) Vocalconsort Berlin Children’s Choir of the Komische Oper Berlin (chorus director: Dagmar Fiebach) Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin Ainārs Rubikis (conductor) Tirésias (Jens Larsen), Œdipe, Jocaste Art returns in various ways. There is, nor should there be, no one-size-fits-all. In London, the Royal Opera, largely silent during the days of endless lockdown and occasional reprieve, lightened our […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-03-23 10:35:57
St Petersburg orchestra in disarray as rejected conductor is reappointed
At least six musicians and a deputy director have quit the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra after the reappointment of Alexander Titov as artistic director. The players voted overwhelmingly against his retention. But Titov has good connections in the Kremlin.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2020-12-11 09:46:54
Putin’s bag-carrier is caught in orchestra revolt
Musicians of the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra have sent a protest to the state governor over the involvement of the cellist Sergei Roldugin in their affairs. The players have just succeeded in voting out Alexander Titov as artistic director and installing Leif Segerstam as principal guest conductor. Titov has sought reinstatement through his friend […]
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2019-02-03 19:50:00
Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor – Alexandеr Malofeev, Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra, Dimitris Botinis (HD 1080p)
Accompanied by the Russian National Youth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of the Greek conductor Dimitris Botinis, the young Russian pianist Alexandеr Malofeev performs Sergei Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30. Recorded at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow, on December 12, 2018.✻Rachmaninov premiered the Third Concerto in New York with the New York Symphony Orchestra, led by Walter Damrosch, on November 28, 1909. The following January he played it with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Gustav Mahler. For many decades, it was neglected by pianists and public alike, in favor of the more compact, more tuneful and structurally sounder Second Concerto. It is a deeper work, full of virtuosic hurdles and lengthy cadenzas. But it was undermined by cuts Rachmaninov was prevailed upon to make, which, in the short run, served to make it more programmable in concerts, but ultimately sabotaged its artistic value. Since the […]
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