Angela Brower News
American operatic mezzo-soprano
- mezzo-soprano
- United States of America
- opera singer
Last update
2024-03-28
Refresh
2021-05-25 07:57:07
Riveting drama: La Clemenza di Tito returns to Covent Garden after a near 20-year gap
Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito - Nicole Chevalier, Angela Brower, George Freeburn, Joshua Bloom, Jeremy White - Royal Opera House (Photo ROH/Clive Barda) Mozart La Clemenza di Tito; Edgaras Montvidas, Emily d'Angelo, Nicole Chevalier, Angela Brower, Christina Gansch, Joshua Bloom, dir: Richard Jones, cond: Mark Wigglesworth; Royal Opera Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 May 2021 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) The Royal Opera's return to large-scale opera was a strikingly modern, yet supremely intelligent take on Mozart's wondrous but problematic late workSomething about Mozart's La Clemeza di Tito seems to appeal to opera companies in the present climate. A new production was live-streamed from Bergen National Opera in March [see my review] and last month National Opera (based in Canberra, Australia) was launched with a production which featured soprano Helena Dix at Vitella. And now, the Royal Opera House has woken from its long slumber to welcome audiences […]
2021-05-20 12:02:00
Royal Opera House Tito – Edgaras MontvidasVitellia – Nicole Chevalier Sesto – Emily D’Angelo Annio – Angela Brower Servilia – Christina Gansch Publio – Joshua Bloom Senators – Jeremy White, George Freeburn Berenice – Fumi Kaneko Conspirators – Amanda Baldwin, Tim Parker-Langston, Nicholas Sharratt Guards – Andrew Carter, Davy Quistin Richard Jones (director) Ultz (designs) Adam Silverman (lighting) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding) Mark Wigglesworth (conductor) Over fifteen months since I had last set foot in an opera house—for Carmen at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden—it felt extraordinary to be back. All else would be secondary. Constant frustrations and persistent fears of the new ‘Johnson variant’ shutting down everything again made for a background of great uncertainty. Comparisons with the crisis of the social order sweeping Europe during the 1780s and 1790s will shed little light, yet all of us this side of […]
2019-02-21 02:09:00
[…] roles. Cornelius Meister, incidentally, is proving himself a natural Mozartean in this season's Don Giovanni.The Queen of SpadesAntonenko, Davidsen, Maximova, Diadkova, Golovatenko, Markov / Petrenko (November-December)I'm not sure Aleksandrs Antonenko has the internal forcefulness to make the most of Tchaikovsky's dramatic masterpiece, but the debuts of young Norwegian next-big-thing soprano Lise Davidsen and Russian (by way of Liverpool and Oslo) conductor Vasily Petrenko are interesting enough.Der RosenkavalierNylund, Kožená, Schultz, Groissböck, Polenzani / Rattle (December-January)Van Kooten, Brower, Schultz, Groissböck, Polenzani / Rattle (December 28)The production is a misfire, the Octavian seems quite miscast, and Simon Rattle isn't the first conductor who comes to mind for Strauss, but perhaps Camilla Nylund or the less-known Americans in the one-off can carry the day.The Magic Flute (abridged version in English)Harvey, Portillo, Lewek, Hopkins, Rosel, Carfizzi, Robinson / Koenigs (December-January)Fang, Portillo, Lewek, Hopkins, Rosel, Carfizzi, Howard / Koenigs (December)Fang, Groves, Park, Liverman, Rosel, Croft, Howard […]
2019-02-21 02:09:00
[…] roles. Cornelius Meister, incidentally, is proving himself a natural Mozartean in this season's Don Giovanni.The Queen of SpadesAntonenko, Davidsen, Maximova, Diadkova, Golovatenko, Markov / Petrenko (November-December)I'm not sure Aleksandrs Antonenko has the internal forcefulness to make the most of Tchaikovsky's dramatic masterpiece, but the debuts of young Norwegian next-big-thing soprano Lise Davidsen and Russian (by way of Liverpool and Oslo) conductor Vasily Petrenko are interesting enough.Der RosenkavalierNylund, Kožená, Schultz, Groissböck, Polenzani / Rattle (December-January)Van Kooten, Brower, Schultz, Groissböck, Polenzani / Rattle (December 28)The production is a misfire, the Octavian seems quite miscast, and Simon Rattle isn't the first conductor who comes to mind for Strauss, but perhaps Camilla Nylund or the less-known Americans in the one-off can carry the day.The Magic Flute (abridged version in English)Harvey, Portillo, Lewek, Hopkins, Rosel, Carfizzi, Robinson / Koenigs (December-January)Fang, Portillo, Lewek, Hopkins, Rosel, Carfizzi, Howard / Koenigs (December)Fang, Groves, Park, Liverman, Rosel, Croft, Howard […]
or
- timeline: Lyrical singers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): B...