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2020-12-15 08:56:22
Regular readers will recall that Beethoven’s faithful friend and unpaid assistant, Franz Oliva, is going with his employer, banker/sheep’s wool wholesaler Joseph Biedermann, to Moscow later this month to handle business there, for an expected period of approximately three months. On this date, Oliva applies for his passport to Moscow …
2020-01-07 07:30:22
From Rossini in Germany to Mozart in Wales: Max Hoehn directs La Cenerentola in Bremerhaven and Cosi fan tutte for WNO
Rossini: La Cenerentola at Stadttheater Bremerhaven, directed by Max Hoehn In May 2020, Welsh National Opera (WNO) launches a new production of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte which is being performed at mid-scale venues across England and Wales. The production is directed by the young British-Swiss director Max Hoehn, who has just directed Rossini's La Cenerentola for the Stadttheater Bremerhaven, where it opened on Christmas Day and runs until 29 March 2020. Judging from the photos it looks to be a lively and engaging production, and features some wild spaghetti! Rossini: La Cenerentola at Stadttheater Bremerhaven, directed by Max Hoehn Max Hoehn was a nominee for Best Young Director at the 2016 International Opera Awards, the first recipient of the Independent Opera Director Fellowship [for whom he directed Simon Vosecek's Biedermann and the Arsonists in 2015, see my review] and a prize-winner at the 9th Europäischer Opernregie-Preis. […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2015-11-22 09:30:11
Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells, London Not much happens, but Georg Friedrich Haas’s new opera is a mesmerising evocation of the great hereafter. And sparks fly at Independent OperaMany operas end with tragedy but are about life and hanging on to the last. The entire burden of Georg Friedrich Haas’s Morgen und Abend is death itself. It roars into action with a cacophony of thunderous drumming, then yields to ever shifting clouds of scudding sound. Stark and spare, with a glistening score and a brave absence of action, this 90-minute work tries to read the world from the other side. A man has just died but he still has a conscious mind. The opera charts his dawning realisation of his nonexistence and guesses at what happens after his last breath. “Let’s just say you’re not quite there,” as Beckett said to his star actor Billie Whitelaw during rehearsals for Footfalls […]
2015-11-18 18:06:23
Czech composer Šimon Voseček brings chilling effects to his satirical opera
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