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2023-08-30 06:28:00
[…] pops up throughout the cycle but flickers out entirely at the end of Götterdämmerung. Nervously playing her sister, Freia, Hailey Clark, busy shining her golden apples, delivered a sensitive and engaging performance while Okka von der Damerau’s portrayal of Erda was sublime. The two minor roles of Donner and Froh - which I always associate with those two minor characters in Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - were extremely well portrayed by Raimund Nolte and Attilio Glaser. Wagner: Die Walkure - Tomasz Konieczny, Georg Zeppenfeld, Christa Mayer - Bayreuth Festival 2023 (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Really, I’ve never giving much thought as to what happens to Freia after Rheingold when her life is spared after Wotan throws the cursed ring on to the Giants’ hoard of gold in exchange for her. But when the curtain went up on Die Walküre I found out. One of the first things I spied on […]
2023-08-23 06:42:00
Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer - Tomislav Muzek, Elisabeth Teige, Nadine Weissmann - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele/Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer; Attilio Glaser, Tomislav Mužek, Elisabeth Teige, Michael Volle, Nadine Weissmann, Georg Zeppenfeld; dir: Dmitri Tcherniakov; cond: Oksana Lyniv; Bayreuth FestivalReviewed by Tony Cooper, 23 August 2023A creative and imaginative force, Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Holländer is a masterful production and one to chalk upThe myth of the Dutchman is thought to have come from an episode in Heinrich Heine’s satirical novel of 1833, Memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski, in which a character attends a theatrical performance of The Flying Dutchman in Amsterdam. Nevertheless, it could have also originated from the 17th-century Golden Age of the Dutch East India Company. However, the opera’s première took place in Dresden on 2nd January 1843 but was pulled from the repertoire after just four performances and shelved for a couple of decades. The inspiration for Wagner to write […]
2022-08-01 11:45:00
Festspielhaus Wotan – Egils Silins Donner – Raimund Nolte Froh – Attilio Glaser Loge – Daniel Kirch Fricka – Christa Mayer Freia – Elisabeth Teige Erda – Okka von der Damerau Alberich – Olafur Sigurdarson Mime – Arnold Bezuyen Fasolt – Jens-Erik Aasbø Fafner – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Woglinde – Lea-ann Dunbar Wellgunde – Stephanie HoutzeelFlosshilde – Katie Stevenson Valentin Schwarz (director) Andrea Cozzi (designs) Andy Besuch (costumes) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Luis August Krawen (video) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Cornelius Meister (conductor) In der Erde Tiefe tagen die Nibelungen: Nibelheim ist ihr Land. Schwarzalben sind sie; Schwarz Alberich hütet’ als Herrscher sie einst!So begins the Wanderer’s answer to the first of Mime’s three riddles, in which notoriously the dwarf asks his unwelcome visitor questions he hopes will catch him out—they do not—thereby wasting the opportunity to ask the chief of the gods what he, Mime, actually needs to know. Mime […]
2022-01-15 08:58:59
[…] lockdown, so that Sven had the name and the idea already, but 2020 gave him more time to concentrate on the music and bring things together. Normally he is travelling, giving concerts, but without this there was the time to dig deeper than usual. And, partly as a result of lockdown, he did the artwork for the cover himself, learning photography to do so. Recording session for Sven Helbig's Skills (Photo Mirko Glaser) When it came to the musical details, he had to consider how to approach the topic, to refer to different crafts perhaps. But he realised that whatever the craft or skill, people always go through a similar process, moving from attraction to ultimately mastership and then transfiguration. Sven had learned an instrument with lots of study, so he tried to distil the steps that this takes, induction, interest, immersion, dedication, desperation (he comments […]
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