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French film score composer
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2021-01-09 19:15:00
Tally of performances attended in 2020
[…] Alois Zimmermann 2 Hans Abrahamsen, Georges Aperghis, George Benjamin, Boulez, Brahms, Busoni, Isaac Cooper, Copland, Elgar, Samantha Fernando, Francesco Filidei, Franck, Saed Haddad, Hindemith, Johann Casper Kerll, Janáček, Christian Jost, Lachenmann, Mahler, William Marshall, Georg Muffat, Isabel Mundry, Mussorgsky, Olli Mustonen, Nielsen, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Jean-Féry Rebel, Wolfgang Rihm, Frederic Rzewski, Rebecca Saunders, Schnittke, Schoenberg, Sibelius, Strauss, Wagner, Webern, Jörg Widmann 1 Opera Bizet, Cherubini, Debussy, Beat Furrer, Holst, Humperdinck, Janáček, Mozart, Meyerbeer, Annelies Van Parys, Tom Smail, Wagner 1 Total Beethoven, Mozart 11 Bach 5 Haydn, Ravel, Stravinsky 3 Berg, Janáček, Schumann, Wagner, Bernd Alois Zimmermann 2 Hans Abrahamsen, Georges Aperghis, George Benjamin, Bizet, Boulez, Brahms, Busoni, Cherubini, Isaac Cooper, Copland, Debussy, Elgar, Samantha Fernando, Francesco Filidei, Beat Furrer, Franck, Saed Haddad, Hindemith, Holst, Humperdinck, Johann Casper Kerll, Christian Jost, Lachenmann, Mahler, William Marshall, Meyerbeer, Georg Muffat, Isabel Mundry, Mussorgsky, Olli Mustonen, Nielsen, Annelies Van Parys, Prokofiev, […]
2020-01-21 16:50:00
Usher, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18 January 2020
[…] first seen staged on the main stage at this very house in 1979 (courtesy of Juan Allende Blin’s reconstruction). Is it a completion? It depends what one means, but that was not in itself the point; this is not primarily an evening of metatheatre, nor does it seem intended to be. Better, then to say what it is: a chamber opera in three short acts, coming to about ninety minutes in total, by Annelies Van Parys and Gaea Schoeters, incorporating Debussy’s music and outline(s), themselves founded on Edgar Allen Poe’s story. (I suggest the plural ‘outlines’, given that Debussy wrote three libretti, each considering the story from a different standpoint.) What especially interested me in what I heard was a particular aspect of the relationship between music by the two composers. It was not so much that I could not tell where one ended and the other began, […]
2019-06-08 17:57:00
[…] interpretation is – well, obvious – it is not mandatory. There are alternatives, or at least aspects one might fill in differently. And so, whilst that affair, presumably long past, comes once again to life in his memory and leads the older man to rueful regret or worse, the woman in a sense takes charge again, just as her musical part and that of her semi-chorus are augmented by additional songs composed by Annelies Van Parys (whom some English opera goers will recall from her skilful chamber reduction of Pelléas et Mélisande, performed by English Touring Opera in 2015). There is no question of the significance of Kamila Stösslová for the cycle and its female character, Zefka, or indeed, for Janáček as creator, vice versa: ‘I do not have words to express my longing for you, to be close to you,’ he wrote. ‘Wherever I am I think […]
2019-06-08 11:00:12
The week in classical: The Diary of One Who Disappeared; Manon Lescaut; Agrippina/Il Pomo d’Oro; Philharmonia – review
[…] National Theatre, in a translation by Seamus Heaney, in 1999. Now the omnipresent Belgian director Ivo van Hove has constructed an elaborate and coolly mysterious version with the Flemish company Muziektheater Transparant. As part of a world tour, three performances were given at the Royal Opera’s Linbury theatre, with the British tenor Ed Lyon fierce and intense in the central role and Lada Valešová as pianist/music director. New songs by the Belgian composer Annelies Van Parys were incorporated, nominally to give the perspective of the Roma girl, Zefka, sung by the French mezzo-soprano Marie Hamard. If they didn’t add much, sitting discreetly and discretely within Janáček’s untouchable sound world, nor did they disturb. The troubled emotions of the man, here a photographer inhabiting a darkroom-cum-elegant studio home, dominate. An actor, Wim van der Grijn, plays a figure who might be a father, or an older version of the young man, […]
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