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2023-08-26 13:00:53
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Elsa Dreisig and Aigul Akhmetshina star in a performance recorded at the Salzburg Festival August 19.
2022-07-13 00:55:00
Zachary Woolfe of the Times reported on the Aix-en-Provence Festival the other day, and said this; boldface by me:The most eyebrow-raising casting at Aix this year was the soprano Elsa Dreisig as Salome, a role usually taken by those who also sing Wagnerian heroines. Dreisig, just into her 30s, is better known for far lighter roles like Mozart’s Pamina and Zerlina.Well, I'm not so sure about that, and "Wagnerian heroines" also includes lyric roles such as Elsa. Here's a list of notable historic and recent or current Salomes, some of whom I grabbed from the San Francisco Opera's archive:Maria JeritzaLily DjanelBrenda LewisLjuba Welitsch Maria CebotariEmmy DestinnAstrid VarnayBirgitte NilssonLeonie RysanekInge BorkhAnja SiljaJosephine BarstowGwyneth JonesMontserrat CaballeHildegard BehrensInga NielsenKarita MattilaAsmik GregorianMarlis PetersenPatricia RacetteTeresa Stratas (video and recording studio only)Maria EwingThat's...quite a range of voices.
2022-04-23 14:26:00
Berlin Festtage (5) – Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Don Giovanni, 17 April 2022
Don Giovanni – Michael Volle Donna Anna – Slávka Zámečníková Don Ottavio – Bogdan Volkov Commendatore – Peter Rose Donna Elvira – Elsa Dreisig Leporello – Riccardo Fassi Masetto – David Oštrek Zerlina – Serena Sáenz Vincent Huguet (director)Aurélie Maestre (set designs)Clémence Pernoud (costumes)Irene Selka (lighting)Robert Pflanz (video)Louis Geisler (dramaturgy)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus master: Martin Wright)Staatskapelle BerlinThomas Guggeis (conductor)Don Giovanni (Michael Volle), Commendatore (Peter Rose), Leporello (Riccardo Fassi)Images: Matthias Baus Don Giovanni was the first opera Daniel Barenboim conducted: at the 1973 Edinburgh Festival. Nearly fifty years on, this new production was eagerly awaited, if more for Barenboim than for director Vincent Huguet, whose previous contributions towards this Berlin Da Ponte ‘trilogy’ (see hereand here) have generally been considered disappointing at best. Alas, Barenboim, whose incendiary conducting of Peter Mussbach’s production here on Unter den Linden in 2007 remains one of my Mozart operatic highlights, had to withdraw, replaced by Staatskapellmeister Thomas […]
2022-02-07 19:32:31
Review: Mozart x 3 – Elsa Dreisig, Soprano
Soprano Elsa Dreisig, in a collaboration with Kammerorchester Basel, performs some of Mozart's best loved arias from his da Ponte and seria operas. The post first appeared on The Classic Review.
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