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2024-02-25 13:31:28
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffWelsh National Opera’s production maxes out on farce in the bet on female infidelity, but the absurdly lovely music antidotes any excess wackinessLa Scuola degli Amanti – The School for Lovers – was always the subtitle of Mozart’s and librettist Lorenzo da Ponte’s third collaboration and, accordingly, director Max Hoehn sets Welsh National Opera’s new production in a school. As an educational establishment, it’s decidedly unprepossessing and as cash-strapped as WNO.Forget any sun-drenched Mediterranean vistas: the single set combines assembly hall, gym and canteen, fish and chips high on the menu. Cut-out Adam and Eve, fateful fruit and serpents suggest the Fall in the Garden of Eden, while biology class is focused on reproduction, pollination via bee and hummingbird, and ancient diagrams of male and female sexual parts. Urinals, wash basins, and changing-room lockers are later wheeled on. So a lot of stuff, plus muddy rugby players, […]
All the conducting master class
2024-02-23 21:14:28
04 Jul 2024 – 02 Sep 2027 CELLO Antonio Meneses / David GeringasCHORAL CONDUCTING Lorenzo DonatiCLARINET Alessandro CarbonareCOMPOSITION Salvatore SciarrinoDOUBLE BASS Giuseppe EttorreFIVE CENTURIES OF GUITAR Eliot FiskFLUTE Patrick GalloisGUITAR AND NEW MUSIC FOR GUITAR Giovanni PudduINNOVATION IN CHAMBER MUSIC David KrakauerLIVE ELECTRONICS Alvise Vidolin – Nicola BernardiniOBOE Christian SchmittORCHESTRAL CONDUCTING Daniele Gatti – Luciano AcocellaPERCUSSION […]
2024-02-05 13:04:20
Lorenzo Viotti makes the score as dramatic as possible but leaves little room for the singers
2024-02-04 11:53:00
The Golden Cockerel, Komische Oper, 3 February 2024
SchillertheaterKing Dodon – Alexander Roslavets Prince Guidon – Pavel Valuzhin Prince Aphron – Hubert Zapiór General Polkan – Alexander Vassiliev Amelfa – Margarita Nekrasova Golden Cockerel – Julia Muzychenko, Daniel Daniela Ojeda Yrureta Queen of Shemakha – Kseniia Proshina Astrologer – James Kryshak First Boyar – Taiki Miyashita Second Boyar – Jan-Frank Süße Dancers – Michael Fernandez, Lorenzo Soragni, Silvano Marraffa, Kai Chun ChungDirector – Barrie KoskyAssistant director – Denni SayersSet design – Rufus DidwiszusCostumes – Victoria BehrChoreography – Otto PichlerDramaturgy – Olaf A. Schmitt, Meike LieserLighting – Franck Evin Orchestra and Chorus of the Komische Oper (chorus director: David Cavelius)James Gaffigan (conductor)Images: Monika Rittershaus Two productions, very different, of Rimsky-Korsakov’s last opera, The Golden Cockerel, within two years: James Conway for English Touring Opera, which I saw in Hackney, and now Barrie Kosky’s new production for Berlin’s Komische Oper in its temporary home in Charlottenburg. Both are experienced, though neither […]
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