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Almost music theatre: Dominick Argento and Schumann song cycles about Virginia Woolf and Mary, Queen of Scots, expanded with dramatic texts from Sarah Connolly at Wigmore Hall
[…] from Schiller's play Mary Stuart (taken from Robert Icke's recent translation), whilst Dominick Argento's song cycle From the diary of Virginia Woolf was interspersed with readings from Woolf's diaries. The concert was dedicated to the memory of Dominick Argento who died in February this year. Sarah Connolly (Photo Christopher Pledger) Zemlinsky's Sechs Gesänge Op. 13 set poems by the Belgian symbolist poet and playwright Maurice Maeterlinck in German translations by Friedrich von Oppein-Bronikowski. As such they provide a fascinating link between Pierrot Lunaire, settings of German translations of Belgian symbolist poet Albert Giraud by Zemlinsky's pupil Arnold Schoenberg, and Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande setting Maeterlinck. Maeterlinck's poems as selected by Zemlinsky are all rather oblique, yet each features women being tested and badly treated, with endings often being left up in the air. One big feature of the songs in the original version for voice and piano […]
2012-10-21 01:25:08
[…] Marguerite but perhaps lacked vulnerability. James Creswell's outstanding Mephistophélès, electrifying and in herculean voice, had the right degree of villainy, smarm and charm.The production replaces Gounod's encrusted, ornate, sensual world with bland imagery of office blocks, electronic gadgets and men in suits. Far from delighting the eye or invoking wonder, Marguerite's jewel box is merely a big white cube: no wow factor, no bring on the bling. American pro-lifers make an appearance with Valentin (Marcin Bronikowski) as their squeaky-clean, stolid leader. This is too flimsy an interpretation to need a sledgehammer. Opera is more exciting than this.Goethe is never far from German romantic song, his texts set by numerous composers. On Tuesday, in this year's strongly programmed Oxford Lieder festival, a "Lunch with Schumann" concert highlighted two rising stars: Holly Marie Bingham, soprano, and Rick Zwart, bass-baritone, with César Vallejo as pianist – all currently study at Guildhall School of […]
2012-10-14 17:34:32
[…] down from the skies and Lillevan's screens are filled with whirling roulette wheels, Vegas-style.Things get worrying, however, when we reach Faust's relationship with Marguerite (Juanita Lascarro). Gounod presents her as a naive young girl, driven to insanity and the murder of her illegitimate child when her seduction brings down on her the wrath both of her soldier brother Valentin and of the judgmental society in which she moves. Braun and Kearley, however, reinvent Valentin (Marcin Bronikowski) as an evangelical politician with an anti-abortion agenda, whose followers hound Marguerite when she aborts Faust's baby.This creates immense problems. First of all, the reimagination of any narrative of infanticide in terms of abortion is profoundly questionable. And second, in an attempt to accomplish it in musico-dramatic terms, a fair amount of violence has been done to the score, with extensive cutting and dovetailing of episodes in the fourth and fifth acts.There are some […]
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