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2019-07-31 14:20:00
Munich Opera Festival (1) - La fanciulla del West, 26 July 2019
Nationaltheater Images: Wilfried Hösl Minnie – Anja Kampe Dick Johnson – Brandon Jovanovich Jack Rance – John Lundgren Nick – Kevin Conners Ashby – Bálint Szabó Sonora – Tim Kuypers Tim – Manuel Günther Sid – Alexander Milev Bello – Justin Austin Harry – Galeano Salas Joe – Freddie De Tomasso Happy – Christian Rieger Jim Larkens – Norman Garrett Billy Jackrabbit – Oleg Davydov Wowkle – Noa Beinart Jake Wallace – Sean Michael Plumb José Castro – Oğucan Yilmaz Pony Express Rider – Ulrich Reß Andreas Dresen (director) Mathias Fischer-Dieskau (set designs) Sabine Greunig (costumes) Michael Bauer (lighting) Rainer Karlitschek, Lukas Leipfinger (dramaturgy) Bavarian State Opera Chorus (chorus master: Stellario Fagone) Bavarian State Orchestra James Gaffigan (conductor) Many Puccini cognoscenti will speak of La fanciulla del West as Puccini’s finest opera – or at least his most musically interesting. In the […]
2017-01-21 20:30:00
Cast change announcement from the Met, re tonight's Barbiere; bad news for people who bought tickets to see Peter Mattei (and who wouldn't buy a ticket to see Peter Mattei): Edward Parks and Maurizio Muraro will sing the roles of Figaro and Dr. Bartolo respectively, in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at this Saturday evening’s performance. They will replace the originally scheduled Peter Mattei and Valeriano Lanchas, who are ill.Mr. Parks is a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and a 2008 winner of the company’s National Council Auditions. He made his Met debut in 2009 as Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, and since then, he has sung Met performances of Puccini roles including Schaunard in La Bohème, Jim Larkens in La Fanciulla del West, and Perichaud in La Rondine, as well as a Flemish Deputy in Verdi’s Don Carlo. Later this season, he will sing Escamillo […]
2016-01-28 16:00:29
Hello from the other side
[…] who profited the most from Minnie’s lesson.) The video director undercuts the Bible lesson, eloquently performed by Stemme, with an insert of Rance leering at Minnie. Ramerrez’s hunt for the Polka’s gold, curtailed by Minnie’s return, is nicely staged: plausible in timing and almost suspenseful. Ramerrez later has a startle response and nearly draws his gun on Wowkle when she surprises him; he is not always suave. Ensemble developments such as the collection to send Larkens home are not as effective as they should be, and things go best when Minnie and/or Ramerrez are around. Whether this is due to the compelling performances of Stemme and Kaufmann or the director’s greater interest in those characters, or both, is difficult to say. Franz Welser-Möst elicits from the Vienna State Opera Orchestra an account of the score that has virtuoso gleam and finish to it, and Puccini’s motifs are brought out with […]
2015-11-16 15:00:08
Girl of the Golden North
[…] Königliches Opernhaus Stockholm Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor 17 December 2011 Minnie – Nina Stemme Dick Johnson – Aleksandrs Antonenko Jack Rance – John Lundgren Nick – Niklas Björling Rygert Ashby – Michael Schmidberger Sonora – Ola Eliasson Trin – Karl Rombo Sid – Gunnar Lundberg Bello – Linus Börjesson Harry – Conny Thimander Joe – Magnus Kyhle Happy – Kristian Flor Larkens – Ian Power Billy Jackrabbit – Alar Pintsaar Wowkle – Agneta Lundgren Jack Wallace – John Erik Eleby José Castro – Anton Eriksson Pony Express Roder – Jon Nilsson
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