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ALL ARTS Channel Broadcast – Monteverdi’s Orpheus. September 24, 2020.
Original Performance Date: September, 2012, Berlin Komische Oper. Story. See writeup on Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. In Gluck’s version Orpheus is successful in bringing Euridice out from hell. In Monteverdi’s retelling, Euridice disappears when Orpheus looks back at her, and Orpheus “leaves the world” to go to the heavens so he can see her in the stars. Conductor – Andre de Ridder; Orpheus – Dominik Koninger, Eurydike – Julia Novikova, Amor – Peter Renz, Sylvia/Proserpina – Theresa Kronthaler, Charon – Stefan Sevenic, Pluto – Alexey Antonov, Puppenspieler – Frank Soehnle. Explanatory note and caveat: Per the ALL ARTS website, Komische Oper Berlin staged three of Monteverdi’s operas in one single day, including Orpheus. Evidently the brainchild of the then new General Director Barry Kosky. The opera was translated into German, and the music was re-written to include both old and modern instruments (including the accordion). A search […]
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2017-05-11 14:18:58
Death of a high German soprano, 95
A notice has been posted of the death of Hanna Scholl-Völker, a high soprano who sang in Florence, Frankfurt and Munich and later became an influential and sympathetic teacher. She married the baritone Georg Völker. Her American student Helen Donath once said of her early years in Germany: ‘ I went through difficult years, even to the verge of losing my instrument. Thanks to the great bass-baritone George London, I met Paola Novikova, the teacher of Nicolai Gedda and many other stars, and then, Hanna Scholl-Völker, daughter in law of the legendary tenor Franz Völker and wife of Georg Völker, the best Beckmesser of his time. They and my husband conductor saved me.’
2017-01-16 15:00:42
Traveling music
Andrea Andermann is a crazy man, we are twice told, admiringly, in supplemental materials for Naxos’s new four-DVD box set. Andermann is the veteran film producer who had the notion to assemble top-flight talent from the worlds of music and cinema for a generously funded film of Tosca. The action would unfold at the story’s specified locations (Sant’Andrea della Valle, Palazzo Farnese, Castel Sant’Angelo), and the film would be broadcast live to 107 countries. After a lengthy period of planning and preparation for this risky undertaking, the live broadcast took place in three installments over a weekend in July 1992, at the story’s designated times of day. In a typical opera film, singers or actors mouth to a prerecorded soundtrack. A similar Tosca of 1976 (with the same Cavaradossi) had followed that game plan. Here, the singing was done live on the locations. The cast followed the Orchestra Sinfonica […]
2016-11-28 00:03:30
Based on two chapters from the 17th century Spanish novel of the same name by Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote was first performed in Moscow by the Ballet of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre in December 1869. It was choreographed by Marius Petipa (1818-1910) to a score by Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917), but subsequently heavily revised and is now performed along the same lines as a version staged by Alexander Gorsky (1871-1924) in 1900. Although the ballet is named after the eponymous hero of the novel the main action centres around the romance between Kitri and Basilio. Kitri’s innkeeper father is determined to marry her off to the wealthy Gamache instead, so the lovers conspire to run away together. Basilio fakes suicide and, while ‘dying’, convinces Kitri’s father to promise him her hand in marriage. Promise secured, he miraculously recovers and the ballet ends with their wedding. Saralanova and Novikova as Basilio […]
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