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Ukrainian operatic soprano (born 1986)
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2023-12-18 19:35:00
Ascanio in Alba, Oper Frankfurt, 17 December 2023
Bockenheimer DepotVenus – Kateryna Kasper Ascanio – Cecilia Hall Silvia – Karolina Bengtsson Aceste – Andrew Kim Fauno – Anna Nekhames Secretary – Aijan Ryskulova Bodyguard – Stefan Biaesch Silvia’s friends – Valentina Ziegler, Isabel Casás RamaNina Brazier (director)Christoph Fischer (set design)Henriette Hübschmann (costumes)Jonathan Pickers (lighting)Deborah Einspieler (dramaturgy)Vocal Ensemble (recorded)Frankfurt Opera and Museum OrchestraAlden Gatt (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausAceste (Andrew Kim), Silvia (Karolina Bengtsson), Venus (Kateryna Kasper), Ascanio (Cecelia Hall), Fauno (Anna Nekhames) It is not every day I get to hear a Mozart opera live for the first time. And yet, this year 2023, some time after my first year of opera-going, I have done so twice: Il re pastore at this year’s Salzburg Festival, albeit in concert performance, and now Oper Frankfurt’s new Ascanio in Alba, directed by Nina Brazier and conducted by Alden Gatt. Two to go, but another two ticked off the list—not that I ever wish to […]
2022-06-12 14:41:00
Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle, Oper Frankfurt, 5 June 2022
Frankfurt Opera HouseDido – Cecelia Hall Aeneas – Sebastian Geyer Belinda – Kateryna Kasper Second Woman – Karolina Bengtsson Sorceress – Dmitry Egorov First Witch – Elizabeth Reiter Second Witch – Karolina Makuła Spirit, Sailor – Carlos Andrés CárdenasBluebeard – Nicholas Brownlee Judith – Claudia Mahnke Prologue (on tape) – Benedek SalgoBarrie Kosky (director)Alan Barnes (revival director)Katrin Lea Tag (designs)Joachim Klein (lighting)Zsolt Horpácsy (dramaturgy)Frankfurt Opera Chorus (chorus director: Tilman Michael)Frankfurt Opern- und MuseumsorchesterBenjamin Reiners (conductor)First Witch (Elizabeth Reiter), Sorceress (Dmitry Egorov), Second Witch (Karolina Makula)Images: Barbara Aumüller The operatic double-bill presents problems and opportunities—like any staged event, one might say, though there are of course specific cases for each genre, even vis-à-vis spoken theatre. First, at least in most instances, comes the question of what to programme together, that is assuming one has rejected the obvious solution of leaving a shortish one-act opera on its own. Practices change: we now rarely programme […]
2021-07-09 14:08:00
Don Giovanni, Royal Opera, 5 July 2021
Royal Opera House Images: (C) ROH 2021, by Bill Cooper Don Giovanni (Erwin Schrott),Donna Anna (Adela Zaharia) Don Giovanni – Erwin SchrottLeporello – Gerald Finley Donna Anna – Adela Zaharia Don Ottavio – Frédéric Antoun Donna Elvira – Nicole Chevalier Zerlina – Zuzana Marková Masetto – Michael Mofidian Commendatore – Adam Palka Donna Elvira’s maid – Josephine Arden Kasper Holten (director)Jack Furness (revival director)Es Devlin (set design)Luke Halls (video design)Anja Vang Kragh (costumes)Bruno Poet (lighting)Signe Fabricius, Anna-Marie Sullivan (choreography)Kate Waters, Simon Johns (fight direction)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus director: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Constantin Trinks (conductor)This was the real thing, a return to Covent Garden that reminded one what opera can, should, even must be. We had made allowances for La clemenza di Tito, with which the ‘first reopening’ took place; there were admirable things, not least the return of […]
2021-06-19 06:41:08
Directing the Don and discovering Dido: I chat to director Jack Furness in advance of his production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera
Jack Furness with Rebecca Meltzer, movement director on Shadwell Opera's production of Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things are (Photo Nick Rutter) Director Jack Furness has made something of a name for himself with contemporary and 20th-century works, directing such operas as Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse [see our review], a double bill of Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Mark Anthony Turnage’s Twice through the Heart, and Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are with his company, Shadwell Opera. But Jack's work during the last three years has had another thread running through it, that of Mozart notably Don Giovanni. In 2019, Jack was the revival director for the performances of Kasper Holten's production of Don Giovanni at Covent Garden, and Jack directed his own production of Don Giovanni at the Teatru Manoel in Malta. Then in 2020, Jack was planning to direct Don Giovanni at Nevill Holt Opera. But […]
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