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Written on Skin, Deutsche Oper, 1 February 2024
Images: WRITTEN ON SKIN, Regie: Katie Mitchell, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Premiere: 27. Januar 2024, copyright: Bernd UhligProtector – Mark Stone Agnès – Georgia Jarman First Angel, The Boy – Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Second Angel, Marie – Anna Werle Third Angel, John – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Angel archivists – Leander Gaul, Yasmina Giebeler, Milli Keil, Maximilian ReisingerDirector – Katie MitchellRevival director – Dan AylingDesigns – Vicki MortimerLighting – Jon ClarkDramaturgy – Sebastian Hanusa Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Marc Albrecht (conductor) More than a decade has passed since I first saw George Benjamin’s second opera, Written on Skin, at Covent Garden. The premiere, both of the work and Katie Mitchell’s well-travelled production, took place at Aix in 2012. Now it reaches, for the first time, Berlin in a further revival of Mitchell’s staging for the Deutsche Oper. It is my fourth hearing, since I attended both the Royal Opera’s 2017 revival and, the year […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-08-20 18:02:59
Reissued Asterix Comics Have An Ugly-Racial-Stereotype Problem
A series of collected strips, in a new English translation, about the funny little Gaul and his fellows resisting the Romans is now being released in the U.S. That’s bringing new attention to an old problem: the way the original artist in the 1960s depicted African slaves. The U.S. publisher wanted to change the drawings, […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-03-25 15:05:00
Albert Uderzo, Co-Creator Of Astérix The Gaul, Dead At 92
“Born colorblind and with six fingers on each hand, [he] became one of the world’s most acclaimed cartoonists, known for drawing characters that ranged from the sword-wielding Astérix — with his winged helmet, bulbous nose and horseshoe mustache — to the roly-poly Obélix, a stonemason who joins Astérix in defending their village from Roman legionaries.” […]
2019-04-08 06:25:33
Italian charm with a French accent in Vivaldi's La Senna Festeggiante from Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo
[…] The piece sets a libretto by Domenico Lalli, a Venetian poet who had supplied the librettos for some of Vivaldi's operas, and it takes the personifications of L'Eta dell'Oro (the Golden Age), Virtu (manly valour) and the Seine. They moan about the state of the world today, are entertained by the singing and dancing of woodland deities and then, in the shorter second half, pay homage to 'the greatest star which is the light of Gaul', i.e. the 16 year old Louis. Vivaldi seems to have supplied music which prized entertainment value above all, much of the piece is positively toe tapping with strong vibrant rhythms, and some fine showy arias. It is not the deepest of works, and you certainly do not have to look at the libretto. But in a performance as finely engaging as the one from Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, there is much enjoyable charm […]
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