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Rusalka, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 4 February 2024
[…] might be better left upstairs in the deceased Prince’s apartment – but because they tell of dreams, fantasies, delights, and horrors. They are not of the sanitised, commercial world of Disney, but come from a place of sex, violence, and more. The mirror they hold up is truthful because it is distorted, not despite that distortion. This production recognises such twisted truths and turns them into a drama at least implicit in Dvořák’s –and Jaroslav Kvapil’s – work and world. It may predate Freud and Kafka, but it is not without connections and even presentiments. I have nothing at all against a production presenting a single-minded view of a work, incorporating more current concerns, and so on. The work, whatever it may be, will survive. But a particular point of interest here is that the director does not impose a framework, even a related conceptual framework, on the work, but […]
2018-01-18 01:24:00
San Francisco Opera, 2018-19
[…] Orlando Sasha Cooke♪ Angelica Heidi Stober♪ Dorinda Christina Gansch**♪ Medoro David Daniels♪ Zoroastro Christian Van Horn♪ Creative Team: Conductor Christopher Moulds* Director Harry Fehr** San Francisco Opera Orchestra RUSALKA by Antonín Dvořák Production New to San Francisco Opera June 16● (2 p.m.), 19● (7:30 p.m.), 22● (7:30 p.m.), 25 (7:30 p.m.), 28 (7:30 p.m.), 2019 Lyric Opera of Chicago production Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil, based on the novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué Sung in Czech with English supertitles Approximate running time: 3 hours, 25 minutes including two intermissions First performance: Prague; March 31, 1901 First SFO performance: November 26, 1995 Most recent SFO performance: 1995 Season Cast: Rusalka Rachel Willis-Sørensen♪ The Prince Brandon Jovanovich Vodník (Water Gnome) Ferruccio Furlanetto♪ Ježibaba Jamie Barton The […]
2017-08-25 01:00:00
Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944): String Quartet No. 3 Op. 46 Piano Sonatas No. 5 Op. 45, No. 6 Op. 49, No. 7 Kocian Quartet, Radoslav Kvapil [66:11] Recorded 2001 Krzysztof Penderecki (* 1933): Sextet for Clarinet, Horn, Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano (2000) Clarinet Quartet (1993) Divertimento for Solo Cello (1994) Michel Lethiec, Régis Pasquier, Bruno Pasquier, Arto Noras, Markus Maskuniitty, Juhani Lagerspetz [67:48] Recorded 2001 Heinz Holliger (* 1939): String Quartet (1973) Die Jahreszeiten (1975) Chaconne for Violoncello Solo (1975) Berner Streichquartett, Schola Cantorum Stuttgart (dir. Clytus Gottwald), Walter Grimmer [52:23] Recorded 1977/1979 Published 1991 TRACKLIST VIKTOR ULLMANN (1898-1944) CZECH "DEGENERATE MUSIC" (VOL. III) STRING QUARTET no. 3, Op.46 - STREICHQUARTETT Nr. 3, op.46 QUATUOR A CORDES n° 3 op.46 […]
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2017-06-04 13:08:16
Mutiny in Mahler’s orchestra
The first job Gustav Mahler held as chief conductor was in Olmütz – Olomouc – in the Czech region of Moravia. Mahler was 23. He lasted six months before landing a better post in Kassel. Olomouc has not enjoyed much musical excitement since then. Last week, new leaders of the musicians’ union at the Moravian Philharmonic orchestra, led a rebellion against the veteran managing director, Vladislav Kvapil. Union members threatened to perform Friday’s open-air concert in T-shirts instead of tails. About half the orchestra declared support for Kvapil, who has been in charge for 23 years. The town hall also gave him its endorsement. But the boss, in the end, resigned. Now the two halves of the orchestras are (we hear) not speaking to each other.
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