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2024-02-03 12:46:00
BPO/Gatti - Schoenberg, Strauss, and Wagner, 2 February 2024
PhilharmonieSchoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, op.4 (1943 version for string orchestra) Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, op.24 Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude to Act I and ‘Liebestod’ Berlin Philharmonic OrchestraDaniele Gatti (conductor)Images: Stephan RaboldRepertoire, orchestra, and conductor: a marriage made in heaven—or, if we are to be Nietzschean about it, in the ‘voluptuousness of hell’ with which he diagnosed Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. In this cleverly devised programme, Daniele Gatti and the Berlin Philharmonic took us through three works of explicit transfiguration, that transfiguration, transcendence, or whatever we want to call it in each case following something darker, more malign, more voluptuous and yes, both heavenly and hellish—or, as Nietzsche would have it, beyond good and evil. The Berliners followed their outstanding Schoenberg programme of the previous week, under Kirill Petrenko, with a Verklärte Nacht of equal distinction. I often have my doubts about the version for string orchestra – what does […]
2024-01-30 12:30:00
Salzburg Mozartwoche (3) - Mozart and Salieri, 28 January 2024
Grosser Saal, MozarteumMozart: Die Zauberflöte, KV 620, Overture; Andante for flute and orchestra in C major, KV 315/285e; Rondo for flute and orchestra in C major, KV 373/285c (arr. Pahud) Salieri: Concerto for flute and oboe in C major Mozart: Symphony no.38 in D major, KV 504, ‘Prague’Emmanuel Pahud (flute)Camerata SalzburgFrançois Leleux (oboe/conductor)Images: Wolfang Lienbacher This was an interesting concert of music by Mozart and Salieri, the lesser known music faring better for me than the celebrated symphony on the programme. There is nothing unusual in that, of course, especially in repertoire in which very different aesthetics are in play—and ultimately, it may be of greater importance to grant an opportunity to rarely heard music than to present a Prague Symphony to rival Karl Böhm or Daniel Barenboim. The Magic Flute Overture, well known though it may be, stood somewhere in between. Tempi were apt and François Leleux took […]
2024-01-17 17:37:00
Così fan tutte, Komische Oper, 14 January 2024
SchillertheaterImages: Monika RittershausFiordiligi – Penny Sofraniadou Dorabella – Susan Zarrabi Guglielmo – Hubert Zapiór Ferrando – Caspar Singh Despina – Alma Sadé Don Alfonso – Seth Carico Sempronio – Amer El-Erwadi Tizio – Goran JurenecDirector, set and costume designer – Kirill SerebrennikovImplementation of direction, choreography – Evgeny KulaginStaff director (Spielleitung) – Martha JurowskiCo-costume designer – Tatyana DolmatovskayaAssistant set designer – Nikolay SimonovDramaturgy – Beate Breidenbach, Maximilian HagemeyerLighting – Olaf FreeseVideo – Ilya ShagalovChoral Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: Jean-Christophe Charron) Orchestra of the Komische Oper Erina Yashima (conductor) There should never be a run-of-the-mill Così fan tutte: Mozart’s most exquisite opera, arguably his profoundest, and perhaps ultimately his greatest. (It is, at any rate, my current favourite, and not only because I heard it last.) This was certainly not it, whether in origin, direction, or performance. Indeed, this staging from Berlin’s Komische Oper is an outstanding achievement in almost every […]
2024-01-14 14:18:00
Die Zauberflöte, Deutsche Oper, 11 January 2024
Sarastro – Tobias Kehrer Tamino – Kieran Carrel Speaker – Padraic Rowan First Priest – Kyle Miller Second Priest – Jörg Schörner Queen of the Night – Hye-Young Moon Pamina – Elena Tsallagova First Lady – Flurina Stucki Second Lady – Arianna Manganello Third Lady – Davia Bouley Papagena – Meechot Marrero Papageno – Philipp Jekal Monostatos – Burkhard Ulrich First Armoured Man – Patrick Cook Second Armoured Man – Youngkwang Oh Three Boys – Soloists from the Children’s Choir of the Deutsche OperDirector – Günter KrämerRevival director – Gerlinde PelkowskiDesigns – Andreas ReinhardtChorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Thomas Richter) Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinGiulio Cilona (conductor)DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Bettina StößImages from 2008, with different cast Premiered on 24 September 1991, six days short of 200 years from the work’s first performance, Günther Krämer’s Magic Flute has done sterling […]
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