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Written on Skin, Deutsche Oper, 1 February 2024
Images: WRITTEN ON SKIN, Regie: Katie Mitchell, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Premiere: 27. Januar 2024, copyright: Bernd UhligProtector – Mark Stone Agnès – Georgia Jarman First Angel, The Boy – Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Second Angel, Marie – Anna Werle Third Angel, John – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Angel archivists – Leander Gaul, Yasmina Giebeler, Milli Keil, Maximilian ReisingerDirector – Katie MitchellRevival director – Dan AylingDesigns – Vicki MortimerLighting – Jon ClarkDramaturgy – Sebastian Hanusa Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Marc Albrecht (conductor) More than a decade has passed since I first saw George Benjamin’s second opera, Written on Skin, at Covent Garden. The premiere, both of the work and Katie Mitchell’s well-travelled production, took place at Aix in 2012. Now it reaches, for the first time, Berlin in a further revival of Mitchell’s staging for the Deutsche Oper. It is my fourth hearing, since I attended both the Royal Opera’s 2017 revival and, the year […]
2022-06-21 06:35:53
Giving voice to unconventional instruments: the Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet
[…] unconventional instruments and non-traditional ensembles."Eve Beglarian (born 1958) - I am really a very simple personAlex Temple (born 1983) - Thick LineMoondog (1916-1999) - Two instrumental rounds in snaketime: round 1Rei Coman (born 1999) - Gaelic Call (first half)Arvo Pärt (born 1935) - SummaRei Coman (born 1999) - Gaelic Call (second half)John Cage (1912-1992) - Toy PianoArvo Part (born 1935) - SolfeggioLawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet (Lee Cyphers, Ann Ellsworth, John Gattis, Mariel Lopez, Kyra Sims, Leander Star, Lydia Van Dreel )Available via BandcampNever miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogMadcap theatre & magnificent music: Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček at Grange Park Opera - opera reviewA strong affinity to melodic music: I chat to composer John Brunning about his works for guitar - interviewStrong meat: Grange Park Opera stages Ponchielli's rarity, La Gioconda in a performance […]
2022-03-15 13:15:46
Born on this day in 1907 controversial actress and singer Zarah Leander.
2021-01-16 11:53:41
The performer is a mirror who should serve the text and the composer: French pianist Vincent Larderet discusses his approach in the light of his recent Liszt recital 'Between Light and Darkness'
[…] too, which appeal to Vincent. He points to the composer's intellectuality, the way Liszt renewed sonata-form itself by taking a multi-movement work and creating one in a single movement. There is also the composer's emotional side, his love of the poetry of France with the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (from which comes Funérailles) inspired by the poetry of Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869), Ballade No. 2 (written 1852) inspired by the Greek myth of Hero and Leander, and La Notte by a Michelangelo poem.But Liszt's virtuosity is interesting as well, after all, he revolutionised pianistic technique. Chopin, for Vincent, is a very classically-inspired composer and Schumann is very romantic, inspired by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, whereas Liszt's piano music with its almost orchestral texture is closer to Brahms' piano writing. Vincent goes on to tell the story of Liszt going to see Brahms, who fell asleep during Liszt's performance of his B […]
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