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2022-04-22 13:12:00
Orpheus/L'Orfeo, Komische Oper, 16 April 2022
(sung as Orpheus in German translation by Susanne Felicitas Wolf) Orfeo – Dominik Köninger Euridice – Josefine Mindus Amor – Peter Renz Sylvia/Proserpina – Maria Fiselier Plutone, Caronte – Tijl Faveyts Figures of Orpheus and Eurydice – Alexander Soehnle, Helen Schumann Dancers - Meri Ahmaniemi, Martina Borroni, Ana Dordevic, Zoltan Fekete, Michael Fernandez, Paul Gerritsen, Claudio Greco, Marcel Prét, Tara Rendell, Lorenzo SoragniBarrie Kosky (director)Katrin Lea Tag (designs)Katharina Tasch (costumes)Ulrich Lenz (dramaturgy)Otto Pichler (choreography)Alexander Koppelmann (lighting) Chorus (chorus master: David Caevlius) and Orchestra of the Komische OperMatthew Toogood (conductor)Amor (Peter Renz), Orpheus (Dominik Köninger)Images: Iko Freese / drama-berlin.deBarrie Kosky’s advent as Intendant of the Komische Oper in 2012 was marked by a twelve-hour ‘Monteverdi Trilogy’, in which the three extant Monteverdi operas were given in new productions and in newly composed realisations by Elena Kats-Chernin (also new German translations by Susanne Felicitas Wolf). Avid Monteverdian, especially in non-‘period’ guise, though I be, […]
2021-03-21 13:00:00
[…] a difficult opera to get right. Overplay the bawdry and you risk coarseness. Understate it, and things become anodyne. Medcalf, however, gets the balance between smut and sophistication more or less spot on, as Catherine Backhouse’s Concepción delivers double entendres aplenty direct to camera, while Ross Ramgobin’s strapping Ramiro hauls around the clocks in which Elgan Llŷr Thomas’s callow Gonzalve and Ashley Riches’s supercilious Iñigo are hidden. Toledo is represented by a print of El Greco’s view of the city hung on the shop walls. Medcalf makes it very clear by the end that cuckolded Torquemada (Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts) will be more than able to profit financially from his wife’s indiscretions.
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-21 19:03:00
Roger Mandle, Who Ran RISD And Co-Founded Qatar’s Museums, Dead At 79
As director of the Toldeo Museum of Art, he organized a pathbreaking (and record-breaking) El Greco exhibition. As president of the Rhode Island School of Design, he built a new museum and quadrupled the endowment. And when a member of the Qatari royal family was determined to turn Doha into an international art destination, she […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-05 15:04:00
Unknown El Greco Painting Discovered In Spain
The small canvas depicting Christ carrying the cross and wearing the crown of thorns, owned by a private individual, was authenticated after two years of study by a team at the University of Lleida. – ARTnews
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