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Norwegian singer (1896-1940)
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2024-02-04 19:38:41
The Taki Alsop Conducting Fellowship has named Alena Hron of the Czech Republic as its 2024-26 Fellow. It also announced the start of the Richmond Symphony Conducting Apprenticeship. Along with Hron, Nefeli Chadouli of Greece has been selected as an Associate Fellow. Award Recipients include Jessica Altarriba, Cuba, Hannah Howard Andresen, Denmark, Micah Gleason, U.S.A, and Karen Ní Bhroin of Ireland. The conductors were selected out […]
2023-08-30 08:42:00
Salzburg Festival (4) - Le nozze di Figaro, 20 August 2023
Grosses FestspielhausImages: © SF/Matthias HornCount Almaviva - Andrè SchuenCountess Almaviva - Adriana GonzálezSusanna - Sabine DevieilheFigaro - Krzysztof BączykCherubino - Lea DesandreMarcellina - Kristina HammarströmBartolo - Peter KálmánBasilio - Manuel GüntherDon Curzio - Andrew MorsteinBarbarina - Serafina StarkeAntonio - Rafał PawnukDirector - Martin KušejSet designs - Raimund Orfeo VoigtCostumes - Alan HraniteljDramaturgy - Olaf A. SchmittLighting - Friedrich RomSound design - Max PappenheimConcert Association of the Vienna State Opera (chorus director: Jörn Hinnerk Andresen)Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraRaphaël Pichon (conductor)Susanna (Sabine Devieilhe), Count Almaviva (Andrè Schuen)Martin Kušej’s new Figaro is my third in Salzburg, after Luc Bondy (my very first visit and my very first Figaro in the theatre) and Claus Guth. (I did not see Sven-Erik Bechtolf.) My hopes were high. Kušej is, of course, an eminent director, a key figure in Austrian theatre, with an estimable track record in opera in general and Mozart in particular. His Don Giovanni and […]
2022-09-02 11:10:00
Salzburg Festival (6) – Mozart, Die Zauberflöte, 27 August 2022
Grosses FestspielhausImages: SF / Sandra Then Sarastro – Tareq NazmiTamino – David Fischer, Mauro PeterQueen of the Night – Brenda RaePamina – Regula MühlemannThree Ladies – Ilse Eerens, Sophie Rennert, Noa BeinartPapageno – Michael NaglPapagena – Maria NazarovaMonostatos – Peter TantsitsSpeaker, First Priest, Second Armoured Man – Henning von SchulmanSecond Priest, First Armoured Man – Simon BodeGrandfather – Roland KochThree Boys – Stanislas Koromyslov, Yvo Otelli, Raphael Andreas ChiangOld Papagena/Cook – Stefan VituThird Priest – Valérie Junker Lydia Steier (director)Katharina Schlipf (set designs)Ursula Kudrna (costumes)Olaf Freese (lighting)Momme Hinrichs (video)Ina Karr, Maurice Lenhard (dramaturgy)Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera (chorus director: Jörn Hinnerk Andresen)Angelika-Prokopp-Summer Academy of the Vienna Philharmonic (stage music)Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraJoana Mallwitz (conductor)When Lydia Steier first presented her Salzburg Magic Flute in 2018, the world was, as they say, a very different place. The trials of the intervening years have left their mark on this wholesale revision. So, […]
2022-08-24 13:29:00
Grosses FestspielhausSaint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, op.47: Act II Wagner: Parsifal: Act II Elina Garanča (soprano)Brandon Jovanovich (tenor)Michael Volle (baritone)Members of the Young Singers ProjectConcert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus (chorus director: Jörn Hinnerk Andresen)Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraDaniel Barenboim (conductor)This was, alas, very much a concert of two halves, disturbingly so. For reasons that I hope will be obvious, I shall concentrate on what was best; there is neither critical nor broader human need to hammer home the shortcomings. Programming was unusual, yet revealing: an excellent case of using a cast to think what might conceptually as well as musically be possible. Consider what these two acts, premiered within five years of one another, have in common or in meaningful contrast, and the answer is quite a lot. Samson et Dalila is not, I think, a theological work; formal affinities to oratorio notwithstanding, it treats with religion, as […]
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