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2023-08-24 06:45:00
The Bayreuth Festival is thrust into a new age, the digital age, by the application of Augmented Reality in a ground-breaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal
[…] staging. Just as well, really, as not every member of the Festspielhaus audience was equipped with 3D glasses owing to the high cost of providing them over the course of just seven performances. Therefore, with a seating capacity of 1,925, there was disappointment in many quarters because only 330 audience members or so were blessed in seeing the show as truly conceived by Scheib and his running mate, video/AR designer, Joshua Higgason. And with Joseph Calleja bowing out of the title-role because of a persistent throat infection, it caused further disappointment. He was replaced by Andreas Schager who, in fact, made his Bayreuth début in the same role in Uwe Eric Laufenberg’s magnificent staging of Parsifal in 2016. Originally, Schager had been scheduled to sing Erik in Holländer, the role passing on to Croatian tenor, Tomislav Mužek. A complicated process, the technology of Augmented Reality can only be viewed through headsets […]
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2023-07-10 10:43:54
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2023-04-17 09:51:33
Message from the Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja: ‘It... The post Calleja faces surgery appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-06-17 11:45:01
Strong meat: Grange Park Opera stages Ponchielli's rarity, La Gioconda in a performance that full embraces the work's drama
Ponchielli: La gioconda - Act One - Grange Park Opera 2022 (Photo Marc Brenner)Ponchielli: La gioconda; Amanda Echalaz, Joseph Calleja, Elisabetta Fiorillo, David Stout, Marco Spotti, director: Stephen Medcalf, the Gascoigne Orchestra, conductor: Stephen Barlow; Grange Park OperaReviewed 16 June 2022, (★★★★)A rare chance to hear Ponchielli's best-known opera in a large-scale and dramatic staging featuring a strong array of voices There were plenty of opera composers in Italy in the 19th century, but few wrote operas that have managed to stay in the repertoire and it is Verdi who dominated then and certainly dominates now. Between Donizetti's Caterina Cornaro (premiered in Naples in 1844) and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (premiered in Rome in 1890), few new operas by composers other than Verdi have managed to remain in the repertoire. One of these is Ponchielli's La gioconda (premiered 1876, revised 1880), though its hold on the repertoire is fragile. Opera North staged it (with Rosalind Plowright […]
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