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holocaust victim, b. 1876-06-14
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2024-02-04 11:53:00
The Golden Cockerel, Komische Oper, 3 February 2024
[…] and now Barrie Kosky’s new production for Berlin’s Komische Oper in its temporary home in Charlottenburg. Both are experienced, though neither was planned, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ETO’s first night less than a fortnight after, the Komische Oper’s second night falling as we approach the two-year anniversary (although intended for 2020 and thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic). Rimsky’s satire on tsarist power and Russian imperialism in the wake of the Russo-Japanese war could hardly be more topical, then, and it would be difficult, indeed perverse, to banish thoughts of today’s King Dodon from our minds completely. In neither production, though, were such ideas first and foremost—and that is arguably a good thing. Spelling out so clearly rarely is, though there will always be exceptions. ‘Rimsky in Hackney’ gave a good introduction to the piece and played fruitfully with ideas of orientalism. Though necessarily given in […]
2022-08-24 10:05:00
Salzburg Festival (2) - Il trittico, 21 August 2022
Grosses FestspielhausGianni Schicchi – Misha Kiria Lauretta – Asmik Grigorian Zita – Enkelejda Shkosa Rinuccio – Alexey Neklyudov Gherardo – Dean Power Nella – Lavinia Bini Gherardino – Daniel Fussek Betto di Signa – Manel Esteve Madrid Simone – Scott Wilde Marco – Iurii Samoilov La Ciesca – Caterina Piva Maestro Spinelloccio – Matteo Peirone Ser Amantio di Noclao – Mikołaj Trąbka Pinellino – Aleksei Kulagin Guccio – Liam James Karai Buoso Donati – Leopold Böhm Michele – Roman Burdenko Giorgetta – Asmik Grigorian Luigi – Joshua Guerrero Il Tinca – Andrea Giovannini Il Talpa – Scott Wilde La Frugola – Enkelejda Shkosa Song seller – Dean Power Lovers – Dean Power, Martina Russomanno Midinettes – Dijana Kos, Irena Krsteska, Wilma Maller, Irina Peroš, Katarína Porubanová, Anna Yasiutina Dancers – Clara Cozzolino, Mário Jorge Moisés da Silva Branco, Joni Österlund, Anna Possarnig, Guillaume Rabain, Nicolas Franciscus, Giulia Tornarolli Sister […]
2022-03-10 14:42:00
Hackney Empire Theatre King Dodon – Grant DoylePrince Guidon – Thomas Elwin Prince Aphron – Jerome Knox General Polkan – Edward Hawkins Amelfa – Amy J Payne Golden Cockerel – Alys Mererid Roberts Queen of Shemakha – Paula Sides Astrologer – Robert Lewis James Conway (director) Neil Irish (set designs and costumes) Rory Beaton (lighting) Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera Gerry Cornelius (conductor) No one could have known at the time of planning—a couple of years ago, I think—but in current circumstances it was eerie, even uncanny, to sit down to a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s final opera, The Golden Cockerel. Composed in the aftermath of the disastrous Russo-Japanese war and only premiered, following extended disputes with the censor, in 1909 after Rimsky’s death, it portrays a lazy king persuaded once again to defeat in war following claims, once again, of enemy incursions at the borders […]
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