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2024-01-17 11:48:00
Antikrist, Deutsche Oper, 13 January 2024
Lucifer, A Voice – Thomas Lehman God’s Voice – Jonas Grundner-Culemann The Echo of the Air of Mystery – Valeriia Savinskaia The Air of Mystery – Irene Roberts The Mouth speaking Great Words – Clemens Bieber Despondency – Maire Therese Carmack The Great Whore – Flurina Stucki The Scarlet Beast – AJ Glueckert The Lie – Kieran Carrel Hatred – Philipp Jekal Dancers – Ashley Wright, Giorgia Bovo, Ana Dordevic, Sakura Inoue, Vasna Felicia Aguilar, Yuri Shimaoka, Joel Donald Small, Shih-Ping Lin, György Jellinek, Miguel Angel ColladoDirector, set designs – Ersan MondtagRevival director – Silke SenseCostumes – Ersan Mondtag, Annika Lu HermannLighting – Rainer CasperChoreography – Rob FordeynDramaturgy – Lara Gebhardt, Carolin Müller-Dohle Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Jeremy Bines) Opera-Ballet and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinHermann Bäumer (conductor)ANTIKRIST, Regie: Ersan Mondtag, Premiere 30. Januar 2022 Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Thomas Aurin Rued Langgaard’s ‘church opera’ Antikrist is […]
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2022-10-19 07:42:08
Hermann Bäumer is stepping down after 14 years... The post Maestro quits Mainz appeared first on Slippedisc.
2015-09-13 09:00:20
Antje Weithaas (violin), NDR Radiophilharmonie/Bäumer (CPO)When a musician can persuade you to revisit repertoire you thought you had tired of, you take notice. Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No 1, famous to the extent of ubiquity, fell into that category long ago for me, but here is a player who reminds you, with quiet and compelling eloquence, why it’s a masterpiece. The poetic but strong playing of the German violinist Antje Weithaas has nuance and detail without ever sounding mannered, individuality without indulgence. Her tone is silvery, not with any suggestion of weakness but of gleam and flexibility. Playing a 2001 Stefan-Peter Greiner violin, she puts a convincing case, too, for the substantial Serenade Op 75 and the lovely one-movement In Memoriam – Adagio. This technically dazzling player, a soloist and chamber player best known in the UK as leader of the world-class Arcanto Quartet, goes to the heart of the […]
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2014-11-07 12:19:59
Debate: Booing at the opera - justifiable or insufferably rude?
Shark and the chorus of Idomeneo in Martin Kušej’s production of Idomeneo © ROH.Catherine Ashmore 2014 Booing at the opera is nothing new. Audiences in continental Europe have been vocally reflecting their dislike of productions and performers for decades, even centuries. Over the past few years however, British audiences seem to have become a lot more vocal, most recently at the opening night of The Royal Opera's Idomeneo , a production which split audiences and the press, garnering polarized reviews from one to five stars . 'It is becoming more usual', Director of The Royal Opera Kasper Holten recently told the Times . 'I mind it when it becomes a standard reaction to anything that’s new. I don’t mind if it’s a real reaction to something you feel very strongly about.' The issue was discussed by broadcaster Petroc Trelawny and writer Gavin Plumley on BBC Radio 4's PM programme […]
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