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2024-04-06 11:15:00
Bizet's Carmen at Covent Garden: gritty realism & a reluctance to add any local colour & movement, redeemed by musical performances
Bizet: Carmen, Act One - Blaise Malaba, Aighul Akhmetshina - Royal Opera House (Photo: ROH/Camilla Greenwell)Bizet: Carmen; Aigul Akhmetshina, Piortr Beczala, Olga Kulchynska, Kostas Smoriginas, director: Damiano Michieletto, conductor: Antonello Manacorda; Royal OperaReviewed 5 April 2024The new production pairs finely musical performances with a sense of gritty realism and a reluctance to add any local colour and movement.For all its iconic status and abundance of good tunes, Bizet's Carmen remains something of a challenge for large opera companies. Until relatively recently matters of edition and style were unquestioning, the grand opera version with Ernest Guiraud's recitatives and a setting that was 'traditional 19th-century Spain'. Since then, things have got more complex with a return to using the opera comique version and a wish to avoid the lazy stage-Spanish stereo-types. It is worth emphasising that the Bizet's opera has little Spanish input, composer, librettists and original author were all French men. And whilst […]
2024-04-02 16:24:00
St Matthew Passion, Deutsche Oper, 29 March 2024
Evangelist – Kieran Carrel Jesus – Padraic Rowan Bass – Joel Allison Tenor, False Witness – Kangyoon Shine Lee Petrus, High Priest, Pontifex II – Youngkwang Oh Pilatus, Judas, Pontifex I – Artur Garbas Soprano, First Maid – Siobhan Stagg Alto, False Witness, Second Maid – Annika Schlicht Girl – Zoé Höchse Friend – Selina Nüsse Director – Benedikt von PeterRevival directors – Eva-Maria Abelein, Matteo Marziano GrazianoSet designs – Natascha von SteigerCostumes – Lene SchwindVideo – Bert ZanderLighting – Roland EdrichDramaturgy – Dorothea HartmannChildren’s and Youth Choirs of the Deutsche Oper (director: Christian Lindhorst)Youth Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den LindenChildren’s Choir of the Aalto-Theatre, Essen (director: Patrik Jaskolka)Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Jeremy Bines)Orchestra of the Deutsche OperAlessandro De Marchi (conductor)Images: Marcus Lieberenz Had someone told me I should be attending performances of the two Bach Passions on consecutive evenings, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, in Leipzig […]
2024-03-18 04:00:00
Haydn: L'Isola Disabitata (Alessandro de Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis)
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