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A Life On-Line: Agrippina from The Grange, Sadko from Flanders, Les Troyens from the Met and Messiah from Bristol
[…] kitten' roles!). In the theatre, the performance made strong use of the small theatre, and film brought us even closer to the singers. With some great Handel singing and playing; Robert Howarth directing the Academy of Ancient Music. The performance is available for a limited time, with Bernstein's Candide and Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro to come; see the festival's streaming page for details. We have been continuing our exploration of the operas of Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov; he wrote 16 in all, containing some of his finest music yet they are woefully unexplored in the West. Flemish Opera produced Rimsky-Korsakov's 1895/96 folk-tale Sadko in 2017, directed by Daniel Kramer and conducted by Dmitri Jurowski, with Zurab Zurabishvili, Betsy Horne, Anatoli Kotscherga, Victoria Yarovaya and Raehann Bryce-Davies. It is a strange, complex tale inspired by a Russian oral epic poem, and as with any folk material there is a lot happening […]
2019-01-10 07:56:36
Oper Köln delivers a colourful account of Ralph Benatsky & Robert Stolz’ The White Horse Inn
[…] it but separated from the performers by an Edelweiss-patterned orchestra rail - what else! The actual performing area took place on a revolving stage which, overall, was en fête with Austrian balcony-style flags set off by a line of ornamented Victorian-style, wrought-iron, gas-lights with the White Horse Inn seen in all its glory overlooking the Wolfgangsee - a pretty picture, for sure!And helping that pretty picture was the imagination and creativeness of the lighting designer, Nicol Hungsberg, who in one lovely scene turned the entire stage into a picturesque winter postcard comprising an ice-skating rink finished off with the snow-covered mountain range glistening in the moonlight. Romantic to the core!But this production was wonderfully romantic through and through not least by the arrival of Kaiser Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and Hungary, a spoken role played regally by Christian Futterknecht who looked the part from head to toe while […]
2018-02-22 11:59:06
The Journey Begins
Introduction Hello Steemit community, My name is Nicol Hendrikse or @realnigel. I’m a creative
2018-02-22 11:59:06
The Journey Begins
Introduction Hello Steemit community, My name is Nicol Hendrikse or @realnigel. I’m a creative
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