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Faces of classical music
2021-08-17 06:15:00
Juan Diego Flórez sings arias by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet and Giacomo Puccini, with Vincenzo Scalera (HD 1080p)
[…] Lulu – Marlis Petersen, Kirill Petrenko, Dmitri Tcherniakov – Bavarian State Opera 2015 (Download the opera) Georges Bizet: Carmen – Elena Maximova, Giancarlo Monsalve, Michael Bachtadze, Johanna Parisi – Myron Michailidis, Enrico Castiglione (Taormina Festival 2015, HD 1080p)Giacomo Puccini: Turandot – Mlada Khudoley, Riccardo Massi, Guanqun Yu, Michael Ryssov – Wiener Symphoniker, Paolo Carignani – Marco Arturo Marelli (Bregenz Festival 2015 – Download the opera)Engelbert Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel – Brigitte Fassbaender, Edita Gruberova, Helga Dernesch, Hermann Prey, Sena Jurinac – Wiener Philharmoniker, Georg Solti (HD 1080p)Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice – A film by Ondřej Havelka – Bejun Mehta, Eva Liebau, Regula Mühlemann – Václav LuksGiuseppe Verdi: La Traviata – Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson – Carlo Rizzi, Willy Decker (Salzburg Festival 2005)Antonio Vivaldi: Ercole su'l Termodonte – Zachary Stains, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Alan Curtis, John Pascoe (Spoleto Festival 2006)Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Iolanta – Anna Netrebko, Sergei Skorokhodov, […]
2020-03-07 10:47:53
Musical peaks: Beethoven's Fidelio at Covent Garden with Lise Davidsen and Jonas Kauffmann
[…] production (on 1 March 2020), apologies were made for Kaufmann. We caught the third performance of Beethoven's Fidelio on 6 March 2020 at the Royal Opera House. Antonio Pappano conducted with Davidsen and Kaufmann joined by Robin Tritschler as Jaquino, Amanda Forsythe as Marzelline, Georg Zeppenfeld as Rocco, Simon Neal as Don Pizzaro and Egils Silins as Don Fernando. My first exposure to Beethoven's Fidelio was at Scottish Opera in the 1970s with Helga Dernesch (still singing as a soprano) and the great Charles Craig, in a production by Peter Ebert that might be described as intelligently traditional. At Covent Garden in 1981 it was again the casting which made its mark, Jon Vickers as Florestan and Linda Esther Gray as Leonore in a revival of a production which dated back to 1961! Since then, productions have veered towards the conceptual rather than the straightforward narrative. This reflects a […]
2019-08-01 13:11:44
A significant achievement: Wagner's Das Rheingold in an intimate production at the Grimeborn Festival
[…] that the final 'Folge mir, Frau!' was thrillingly done, giving us the musical frisson that the staging lacked. As his wife, Marianne Vidal (who is sharing the role in the run with Claire Barnett-Jones) made an elegant Fricka, yet an effective opponent to Carey Jones' Wotan. The two made a handsome couple but Vidal certainly stood up to him. Yet this was quite a warmly elegant portrayal, I have seen more sardonic Frickas (both Helge Dernesch and Rosalind Plowright were wonderful masters of the withering put down here). Physically Vidal was impressive too, negotiating the tricky 'cardboard box' staircase in tall heels! Wagner: Das Rheingold -The Rhinemaidens (Angharad Lyddon, Kiandra Howarth, Claire Barnett-Jones) and Alberich (Seth Carico) - Grimeborn Festival (Photo Lidia Crisafulli) Philip Sheffield is an experienced lyric tenor with a wide range of roles, and dramatically he created a wonderful picture of Loge as the wily eternal […]
2019-02-04 21:34:29
The octogenarian muse
Helga Dernesch is the singer whom I largely credit for rekindling my love for opera.
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