Johann Christian Franz News
German opera singer (1762-1812)
- Germany
- opera singer, stage actor
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2024-04-24
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2021-01-25 16:13:31
Watch Domingo’s last Nabucco in this week’s free Vienna stream
The weekly schedule: Dienstag, 26. Jänner 2021, 19.00 Uhr Richard Wagner SIEGFRIED (Vorstellung vom 17. Jänner 2016) Zweiter Tag des Bühnenfestspiels Musikalische Leitung: Adam Fischer Inszenierung: Sven-Eric Bechtolf Mit u.a.: Christian Franz, Linda Watson, Tomasz Konieczny, Herwig Pecoraro, Jochen Schmeckenbecher Mittwoch, 27. Jänner 2021, 19.00 Uhr Richard Wagner GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG (Vorstellung vom 24. Jänner 2016) Dritter Tag des […]
2021-01-13 17:02:10
Götterdämmerung
Adam Fischer leads Christian Franz, Linda Watson, Eric Halfvarson and Jochen Schmeckenbecher.
2021-01-10 15:14:17
Siegfried
From the Vienna State Opera: Adam Fischer conducts Christian Franz, Linda Watson, Tomasz Konieczny, Herwig Pecoraro and Jochen Schmeckenbecher.
2019-05-02 18:30:00
Robbing the cradle
Siegfried - Metropolitan Opera, 4/13/2019Vinke, Goerke, Volle, Siegel, Morley, Cargill, Koniecszny, Belosselskiy / JordanAs astounding and enjoyable was Stefan Vinke's vocal endurance and forcefulness in the title role in this house debut last month, so disappointing was the one-note personal characterization that accompanied it. The result was a barn-burner of an aural show that undoubtedly thrilled the general audience but frustrated me as the vocal failures of past revivals had not.A decade ago, in praise of Christian Franz - whose physical assumption was everything that Vinke's was not - I noted that his Siegfried "didn't, as is sometimes the case, seem the villain of the piece". And with this revival we saw how easy it takes to make Siegfried unsympathetic (one opera ahead of when he does, under mind-affecting magic, in fact act the bad guy). Whether it was the revival stage directors (J. Knighten Smith for the overall […]
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