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Jaromir Weinberger’s Svanda dudák is rarely performed at all and more often than not in German rather than its original Czech, so Trove Thursday inevitably offers Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer from Dresden with Marjorie Owens, Tichina Vaughn, Christoph Pohl and Ladislav Elgr.
2020-01-21 12:41:00
Jenůfa, Deutsche Oper, 17 January 2020
Jenůfa (Rachel Harnisch), Grandmother Burya (Renate Behle); Images © Bettina Stöß Grandmother Buryja – Renate Behle Kostelnička Buryja – Evelyn Herlitzius Jenůfa – Rachel Harnisch Laca Klemeň– Robert Watson Števa Buryja – Ladislav Elgr Foreman – Philipp Jekal Mayor – Stephan Bronk Jano – Meechet Marrero Barena – Karis Tucker Mayor’s Wife – Nadine Secunde Karolka – Jacquelyn Stucker Shepherdess – Fionnuala McCarthy Christof Loy (director) Dirk Becker (set designs) Judith Weihrauch (costumes)Bernd Purkrabek (lighting) Eva-Maria Abelein (Spiellleitung) Thomas Wilhelm (choreographic assistance) Christian Arseni (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin (chorus master: Jeremy Bines) Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin Donald Runnicles (conductor) If Jenůfa fails to move, something will have gone terribly wrong. That is not, however, to say that one should take for granted a performance as moving as this. It takes a good deal of musical work to […]
2019-07-20 10:21:21
First NIght of the Proms: Janacek, Dvorak and Zosha Di Castri launch the 2019 BBC Proms
Zosha Di Castri: Long Is the Journey - Short Is the MemoryKarina Canellakis, BBC Symphony Orchestra - BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall (Photo Chris Christodoulou) Zosha Di Castri Long is the Hourney, Short is the Memory, Antonin Dvorak The Golden Spinning Wheel, Leos Janacek Glagolitic Mass; Asmik Grigorian, Jennifer Johnston, LAdislav Elgr, Jan Martinik, Peter Holder, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Karina Canellakis; BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 5 July 2019 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) A rousing and historic start to the 2019 BBC Proms season Janacek: Glagolitic Mass - Ladislav Elgr, Karina Canellakis, BBC Symphony OrchestraBBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall (Photo Chris Christodoulou) The young American conductor Karina Canellakis made history as the first woman to conduct the First Night of the Proms last night (19 July 2019) as she […]
2019-07-19 21:04:00
Undemanding First Night of the Proms 2019
[…] long before the Hapsburgs consolidated their grip on Bohemia, so it isn't about the Church so much as Janáček's faith in secular and national Resurrection. Glagolitic Masses can be craggy, earthy, ferocious, almost anything but not a "sacred work" in a churchy sense. With the forces on hand this should, in theory, have been a good performance. The BBC SO, the BBC Singers and BBC Chorus know the piece, and the soloists, Asmik Grigorian, Jennifer Johnston, Ladislav Elgr, and Jan Martiník - are all good, Martiník in particular for this repertoire. Grigorian was another reason I was so keen to hear this - she was a sensational Salomé with Welser-Möst in Salzburg (read more HERE). But a performance needs to be more than a sum of its components. The Úvod held together, though it's more impressive as a statement of intent, like the foundation stone of a great edifice. The Kyrie can […]
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