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2024-01-11 10:54:00
Jenůfa, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 7 January 2024
Grandmother Buryja – Hanna Schwarz Kostelnička Buryja – Rosie Aldridge Jenůfa – Vida Miknevičiūtė Laca Klemeń – Stephan Rügamer Števa Buryja – Pavol Breslik Foreman – Grigory Shkarupa Jano – Victoria Randem Barena – Adriane Queiroz Mayor – David Oštrek Mayor’s Wife – Natalia Sckrycka Karolka – Maria Kokareva Herdswoman – Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Auntie – Rebecka Wallroth Voices – Olga Vilenskaia, Ben BloomfieldDirector – Damiano MichielettoRevival director – Marcin ŁakomickiSet designs – Paolo FantinCostumes – Carlo TetiLighting – Alessandro CarlettiChoreography – Thomas Wilhelm Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinAxel Kober (conductor)Images: Bernd Uhlig (from 2021 premiere, with different cast)Damiano Michieletto’s 2021 production of Jenůfa, now receiving its first revival, offers a relatively straightforward retelling of the story without prettifying or sentimentalising. Paolo Fantin’s set designs are stark: semi-transparent, enabling one to see, as in a small rural community, most of what is going on, whilst still maintaining some degree of secrecy. […]
2023-05-20 20:09:00
Wozzeck, Royal Opera, 19 May 2023
Royal Opera HouseWozzeck – Christian Gerhaher Marie – Anja Kampe Captain – Peter Hoare Doctor – Brindley Sherratt Margret – Rosie Aldridge Drum Major – Clay Hilley Andres – Sam Furness First Apprentice – Barnaby Rea Second Apprentice – Alex Otterburn The Fool – John Findon Soldier – Lee Hickenbottom Tenor Solo – Andrew Macnair Marie’s Son – Jonah Elijah McGovernDeborah Warner (director)Hyemi Shin (set designs)Nicky Gillibrand (costumes)Adam Silverman (lighting)Kim Brandstrup (choreography)Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: William Spaulding)Orchestra of the Royal Opera HouseAntonio Pappano (conductor)Images: Tristram KentonAndres (Sam Furness), Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher)Thirty years ago, in Sheffield, a teenage schoolboy saw his first opera in the theatre. It was Wozzeck, directed by Deborah Warner for Opera North. Quite an opera with which to begin, you might say, and indeed in many ways it was, yet why would you wish to begin with something that was not ‘quite an opera’? He knew a […]
2022-10-04 02:11:07
Previously: Toch, Lubitsch, Korngold, Salieri, Bruckner, Liszt, Georg Trakl, Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, Thomas Mann, Bach, Nietzsche, Monteverdi, Koussevitzky, Michael Furey, Luranah Aldridge, Ligeti, Frescobaldi, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Baudelaire and Beckett, Nadia and Lili Boulanger, Stravinsky and Nono, Zemlinsky,...
2022-04-11 13:12:15
Alcina and Arminio to Kurt Cobain and Kaija Saariaho to Werther and Wozzeck, the Royal Opera House's new season
[…] Don. Lovely to see that Ailish Tynan pops up as First Lady in The Magic Flute and Berta in The Barber of Seville. It is in the smaller roles that some of the most satisfying casting comes. Besides welcome returns for Jette Parker graduates including Dominic Sedgwick, Thomas Atkins, Michael Mofidian, Blaise Malaba, we also look forward to Ross Ramgobin as Schaunard (La Boheme) and Gamekeeper (Rusalka), Rowan Pierce as Papagena (The Magic Flute), Sam Furness and Rosie Aldridge as Andres and Margret in Wozzeck, Ella Taylor as Tebaldo in Don Carlo (a strong revival with Brian Jagde, and Lise Davidsen), Anna Stephany as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro. Full details from the Royal Opera House website.
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