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La clemenza di Tito
From the Vienna State Opera: Adam Fischer conducts Benjamin Bruns, Caroline Wenborne, Margarita Gritskova, Hila Fahima, Miriam Albano.
2018-08-26 08:33:57
Bayreuth’s Die Walküre is pulled from the pack and given another airing conducted by Plácido Domingo
Richard Wagner Die Walküre: Catherine Foster, Stephen Gould, Regine Hangler, Anja Kampe, Mika Kaneko, Tobias Kehrer, Christiane Kohl, John Lundgren, Mareike Morr, Alexandra Petersamer, Marina Prudenskaya, Simone Schröder, Caroline Wenborne, dir: Frank Castorf, cond: Plácido Domingo; Bayreuth Festival, Germany Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 18 August 2018 Star rating: 5.0Frank Castorf’s Ring proved controversial at first but found its feet over its five-year runThe Bayreth Festival presented Wagner's Die Walküre as a stand-alone production (seen 18 August 2018) conducted by Plácido Domingo with Catherine Foster, John Lundgren, Anja Kampe, Stephen Gould, Tobias Kehrer and Marina Prudenskaya. In the second part of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre (in repertoire from 2013 to 2017 as part of the complete cycle to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth), Berlin-based, avant-garde, theatre director, Frank Castorf, unconventionally dumped the opera’s traditional romantic Rhineland setting for the rough-and-tumble […]
2017-08-25 11:08:00
Bayreuth Festival (2) - Die Walküre, 24 August 2017
Festspielhaus Siegmund – Christopher Ventris Hunding – Georg Zeppenfeld Wotan – John Lundgren Sieglinde – Camilla Nylund Brünnhilde – Catherine Foster Fricka – Tanja Ariane Baumgartner Gerhilde – Caroline Wenborne Ortlinde – Dara Hobbs Waltraute – Stephanie Houtzeel Schwetleite – Nadine Weissmann Helmwige – Christiane Kohl Siegrune – Mareike Morr Grimgerde – Weibe Lehmkuhl Rossweiße – Alexandra Petersamer Frank Castorf (director) Patric Seibert (assistant director and dramaturgical collaboration) Aleksandar Denić (set designs) Adriana Braga Peretski (costumes) Rainer Kasper (lighting) Andreas Deinert, Jens Crull (video) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Marek Janowski (conductor) Opera is such a difficult thing to get right: so many variables, so many contradictions. They are, however, part of its attraction and, when everything or most things in some sense come together, its greatness too. Not for nothing did Wagner designate the orchestra as his Greek Chorus: framer of, […]
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2015-08-23 10:19:20
Bayreuth gives away next year’s casting
Here’s what’s to expect: PARSIFAL Cond: Andris Nelsons Dir: Uwe Eric Laufenberg Amfortas: Ryan McKinny Titurel: N.N. Gurnemanz: Georg Zeppenfeld Parsifal: Klaus Florian Vogt Klingsor: Gerd Grochowski Kundry: ?? DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN Cond: Marek Janowski Dir: Frank Castorf DAS RHEINGOLD Wotan: Iain Paterson Donner: Markus Eiche Froh: Tansel Akzeybek Loge: Roberto Saccà Fricka: Sarah Connolly Freia: Caroline Wenborne Erda: Nadine Weissmann Alberich: Albert Dohmen Mime: Andreas Conrad Fasolt: Andreas Hörl Fafner: ?? Woglinde: Alexandra Steiner Wellgunde: Stephanie Houtzeel Floßhilde: Wiebke Lehmkuhl DIE WALKÜRE Siegmund: Christopher Ventris Hunding: Andreas Hörl Wotan: John Lundgren Sieglinde: Jennifer Wilson Brünnhilde: Catherine Foster Fricka: Sarah Connolly Gerhilde: Caroline Wenborne Ortlinde: Dara Hobbs Waltraute: Stephanie Houtzeel Schwertleite: Nadine Weissmann Helmwige: Christiane […]
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