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2024-03-23 15:27:00
R.I.P. Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)
[…] beyond the concert hall and the opera house to the car factories of northern Italy. It would have been easier to glory in the world of ‘star performers’, but that was clearly never somewhere Pollini, however fêted, was ever at home. In many ways, his music-making was always a product of the ‘Years of Lead’ in which fascism, openly backed by much of ‘the West’, threatened to occupy much of Europe once again. Speaking in Bettina Erhardt’s wonderful film on Nono, A Trail on the Water, made after Nono’s death, Pollini recalled one incident in particular: There was a lot of tension in the air. We have to remember the situation in Italy back then. People were even talking about a possible Fascist coup. There was the example of the colonels in Greece. The fear of a turn towards authoritarianism was serious. After the massacre on the Piazza Fontana […]
2024-03-09 12:50:00
Parsifal, Deutsche Oper, 8 March 2024
[…] him, though not necessarily for those left behind. Perhaps, as I noted last time, Stölzl heeds John Deathridge’s warning against resolution in ‘high-minded kitsch’, for redemption is an alien concept, one that never arises. The problem for me was not so much the grim framing, as the danger that by now the production had become its own ritual, in danger of succumbing to something not a million miles away from what it claimed to portray. Image: Bettina Stöß Donald Runnicles led a performance not so very different – as memory serves – from Axel Kober ten years ago, though probably still more secure. He and the splendid Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper (the chorus too) put not a foot wrong throughout. This was not the sort of performance one might characterise as a particular ‘reading’; Runnicles’s collegial brand of music-making is not about that. Instead, he drew on what is, by […]
2024-02-21 18:49:00
Le nozze di Figaro, Deutsche Oper, 20 February 2024
Count Almaviva – Thomas LehmanCountess Almaviva – Maria Motolygina Susanna – Lilit Daviyan Figaro – Artur Garbas Cherubino – Meechot Marrero Marcellina – Michaela Kaune Don Basilio – Burkhard Ulrich Don Curzio – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Bartolo – Padraic Rowan Antonio – Patrick Guetti Barbarina – Ketevan Chuntishvili Two Bridesmaids – Yuuki Tamai, Asaha Wada Director – Götz FriedrichSet designs – Herbert WernickeCostumes – Herbert Wernicke, Ogün WernickeRevival director – Gerlinde PelkowskiChorus (chorus director: Thomas Richter) of the Deutsche Oper Orchestra of the Deutsche OperGiulio Cilona (conductor)DIE HOCHZEIT DES FIGARO von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin,copyright: Bettina StößCount Almaviva (Thomas Lehman), Susanna (Lilit Dayivan), Don Basilio (Burkhard Ulrich)Next stop on my tour of Berlin’s ‘vintage’ opera productions: Götz Friedrich’s Deutsche Oper Marriage of Figaro, a joy to encounter in itself and a nice sequel to Ruth Berghaus’s Barber of Seville across town at the Staatsoper. Friedrich’s productions are gradually making their […]
2024-01-14 14:18:00
Die Zauberflöte, Deutsche Oper, 11 January 2024
Sarastro – Tobias Kehrer Tamino – Kieran Carrel Speaker – Padraic Rowan First Priest – Kyle Miller Second Priest – Jörg Schörner Queen of the Night – Hye-Young Moon Pamina – Elena Tsallagova First Lady – Flurina Stucki Second Lady – Arianna Manganello Third Lady – Davia Bouley Papagena – Meechot Marrero Papageno – Philipp Jekal Monostatos – Burkhard Ulrich First Armoured Man – Patrick Cook Second Armoured Man – Youngkwang Oh Three Boys – Soloists from the Children’s Choir of the Deutsche OperDirector – Günter KrämerRevival director – Gerlinde PelkowskiDesigns – Andreas ReinhardtChorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Thomas Richter) Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinGiulio Cilona (conductor)DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Bettina StößImages from 2008, with different cast Premiered on 24 September 1991, six days short of 200 years from the work’s first performance, Günther Krämer’s Magic Flute has done sterling service […]
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