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2024-04-22 15:34:00
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. Lorenzo Viotti, conductor. April 15, 2024.
[…] about the piece. A great performance would still allow the listener to construct a message. I have been able to do so with many of Mahler's symphonies, but not tonight. So my remark is not particularly unfair to the music director.For completeness, the movements of the symphony are (1) Allegro comodo; (2) Im Tempo eines gemachlichen Landlers, Etwas tappisch und sehr derb; (3) Rondo-Burleske: Allegro assai. Sehr trotzig; and (4) Adagio. Sehr langsam und noch zuruckhaltend.Viotti is the NL Philharmonic's music director, and he is all of 34 years old. His name may lead one to think he is Italian, but he is Swiss.Drinks are again included with the ticket price. Since there was no intermission, they were available after the concert as well.Both concerts offered free drinks. Here they are on offer after completion of the symphony as there was no intermission.Tram No. 12 got me back to the […]
2024-02-19 17:22:00
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 16 February 2024
Count Almaviva – Siyabonga Maqungo Doctor Bartolo – Renato Girolami Rosina – Marina Viotti Don Basilio – Grigory Shkarupa Berta – Adriane Queiroz Figaro – Samuel Hasselhorn Fiorillo – Dionysios Averginos Ambrosio, Notary – Florian Eckhardt Officer – Wolfgang BiebuyckDirector – Ruth BerghausDesigns – Achim FreyerRevival director – Katharina LangStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinIdo Arad (conductor)Images (from 2010): Monika Rittershaus I see that, in London, Jonathan Miller’s 1987 ENO production of The Barber of Seville is receiving another outing. It seems positively modern, though, at least when it comes to years and performances on the clock, when compared with Ruth Berghaus’s 1968 staging for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, first seen a little less than midway between the declaration of the German Democratic Republic and the fall of the Berlin Wall and now past 350 outings. In one of these near-miracles impossible fully to explain, though, Berghaus’s production seems […]
2024-02-05 13:04:20
Lorenzo Viotti makes the score as dramatic as possible but leaves little room for the singers
2024-02-01 14:30:53
Simon Boccanegra
Lorenzo Viotti conducts a live opening night broadcast from Milan with Luca Salsi, Ain Anger, Roberto De Candia, Andrea Pellegrini, Eleonora Buratto and Charles Castronovo
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