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German theater and silent film actor
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- actor, stage actor, opera singer
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2020-03-16 07:18:08
This crazy day: Joe Hill-Gibbins' new production of The Marriage of Figaro at English National Opera
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - Rowan Pierce, Hanna Hipp, Louise Alder, chorus - English National Opera 2020(Photo © Marc Brenner) Mozart The Marriage of Figaro; Elizabeth Watts, Johnathan McCullough, Louise Alder, Božidar Smiljanić, Hanna Hipp, dir: Joe Hill-Gibbins, cond: Kevin John Edusei; English National Opera at the London Coliseum Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 14 March 2020 Star rating: 4.5 (★★★★½) Theatre director Joe Hill-Gibbins provides a refreshing take on Mozart's masterpiece, with an emphasis on character Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - Božidar Smiljanić, Susan Bickley in the backgroundEnglish National Opera 2020- (Photo © Marc Brenner) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte's opera Le nozze di Figaro was written for a recently established Italian opera company in Vienna specialising in opera buffa. When that first audience saw the work in 1786, they would have seen a cast of singers with whom […]
2019-08-25 08:18:38
Final of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition in Oslo
Final of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition 2019First prize winner, Sergey Kaydalov (Russia) & H.M. Queen Sonja on Norway (Photo Adrian Nielsen) Final of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition; Oslo Opera House Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 23 August 2019 Six young singers from Germany, Poland, Russia, Moldova and China competing in the 30th anniversary edition of the competition Queen Sonja International Music Competition 2019Stefan Astakhov (Germany), Risto Joost (Photo Adrian Nielsen) 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the Queen Sonja International Music Competition, and this year the biennial event in Oslo, Norway featured over 300 young singers competing. On Friday 23 August 2019, the final involved six singers from Germany, Russia, Poland, China and Moldova, who sang arias and duets at the Oslo Opera House, in front of a distinguished jury from a variety of walks of musical life. The singers […]
2019-04-28 06:59:12
Royal Opera House, St John’s Smith Square, London A radiant and raw production brings out the nuances of Britten’s seafaring opera; and Bach offers Easter gifts Tangle up his hammock, mess his kit, spill his grog.With this childish incitement to spite, the tyrant Master-at-Arms seals the fate of the new boy aboard, handsome, genialBilly Budd,whose only weakness is to Stammer. All humanity’s cruelty is compressedinto this snapshot moment. It’s the kernel ofBenjamin Britten’sopera, based onHerman Melville’stale set on board theHMS Indomitable in theFrench revolutionary wars. In a strong production, Billy Budd can seem Britten’s greatest stage work (there can be no absolutes, with Peter Grimes or Turn of the Screw in contention). Deborah Warner’s striking and perceptive staging for the Royal Opera House (ROH), first seen at Teatro Real, Madrid, makes a fiercely eloquent case. Leading the predominantly British cast, baritone Jacques Imbrailo (Billy Budd), tenor Toby Spence (Captain Vere) […]
2019-04-26 20:15:00
Anglais - Inspired Staging Complements Poignant Opera in Billy Budd at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd, which premiered at the Royal Opera House in 1951 before undergoing revisions in 1960, is based on the eponymous novella by Herman Melville, and has a libretto by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier. With the main action set aboard the HMS Indomitable in 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars, the story centres on Billy Budd who at the start is pressed into serving in the Royal Navy from a merchant ship. He has a lot of positive attributes including loyalty and enthusiasm, and leaves a strong impression on Captain Vere and the crew at large. However, the Master-at-Arms John Claggart hears him sing the ‘Rights of Man’ and gets it into his head that Billy is a trouble maker. At the time the Royal Navy was reeling from two major mutinies and was threatened by the Revolutionary French Republic’s military ambitions, but in Billy’s case […]
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