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2023-08-30 06:28:00
Wagner: Die Walkure - Act Three - Claire Barnett-Jones, Elisabeth Teige, Catherine Foster, Christa Mayer, Stephanie Houtzeel - Bayreuth Festival 2023 (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen; Aile Asszonyi, Hailey Clark, Okka von der Damerau, Markus Eiche, Catherine Foster, Mika Kares, Daniel Kirch, Daniela Köhler, Tomasz Konieczny, Christa Mayer, Andreas Schager, Olafur Sigurdarson, Elisabeth Teige, Klaus Florian Vogt, Georg Zeppenfeld, dir: Valentin Schwarz; cond: Pietari Inkinen; Bayreuth Festival. Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 28 August 2023Finnish-born conductor, Pietari Inkinen, proudly walked the Grüner Hügel this year to conduct the complete Ring following his 2021 festival début with Die Walküre. Austrian stage director, Valentin Schwarz - who came to prominence in tandem with set designer Andrea Cozzi after winning the 2017 Ring Award - made his Bayreuth Festival début with this Ring cycle last year which received a mixed reception although it’s faring much better this year, conducted by […]
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 […]
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. […]
2022-01-15 08:58:59
Sven Helbig in an image he posted on Kickstarter in March 2021 German composer and music-producer Sven Helbig and my paths have crossed several times over the years. I first came across him at the first UK performance of his Pocket Symphonies [and I also caught them in Hamburg at the 2013 Reeperbahn Festival, see my review], and most recently, in 2019, I heard the premiere of his work for cello and orchestra commissioned for the Dresden Music Festival as part of a new concerto with each movement written by a different composer, the others being Nico Muhly and Zhou Long [see my review]. In between we have managed to cross paths in various ways including my interview in 2016. Now he has a new album, Skills, that comes out next month and we met up over Zoom to chat about it. Sven's musical style is very much a product of […]
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