Elly Bender News
opera singer
- soprano
- stage actor, opera singer
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2021-03-26 17:52:45
Bender currently serves as the permanent guest conductor of the Leipzig Opera and has conducted the masterworks including those of Wagner, Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, and Massenet. An opera specialist, he also has worked at theaters such as Aalto-Musiktheater Essen, Theater Chemnitz, Theater Lübeck, and Theater Erfurt. Bender is eager to begin his time with the […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2021-03-04 20:20:00
Anglais - Interview with Lotte de Beer, stage director of Aida at the Opéra national de Paris
Lotte de Beer made her highly anticipated Opéra national de Paris debut two weeks ago with an innovative Aida – starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier – which gathers the ghosts of colonialism. She has encompassed a certain number of opera genres (Falstaff, Puccini’s Il Trittico, Carmen, Rusalka, Mosè in Egitto, Lulu…), has been appointed Director of the Volksoper in Vienna from next September, and will stage Le Nozze di Figaro at the Aix-en-Provence Festival this summer. We had a chat with her a few hours before the premiere of Aida to discuss this first stage direction in France and the power of theatre… *** What are the challenges of directing Aida? As an opera, Aida has a very beautifully constructed story about war, identity, slavery, and a love triangle, and Aida stands right on the settle point of all this. On the other hand, […]
2019-10-21 17:58:00
The triumph of Mahler
Saturday was a day I shall remember for a very long time. When strange things connect, when music does what it was meant to do, when people from all parts of life reach new heights and new meanings come together and you realise that over the years melodies converge: we all need each other more than ever. Even today it's hard to know where to begin, but here it is - from the flame of a single candle in Wells Cathedral to the tsunami of energy and light that is Mahler's Symphony No.2 at its best. Inside Wells Cathedral I was in Wells for its Festival of Literature. Having arrived the night before (and massive thanks to the festival and its representatives for such a warm and hospitable welcome!), I started the day with a visit to the cathedral, which I had virtually to myself. […]
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