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From Harald en Italie to Le prophète in New York: 2024 Bard Summerscape focuses on Berlioz and his world
Fisher Center at Bard College (Photo: Peter Aaron '68/Esto) The Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in the Hudson Valley, New York City, presents an annual Summerscape festival and this year there are eight weeks of opera, theatre, dance and a music festival from 20 June to 18 August 2024. The theme of the music festival is Berlioz and His World. Alongside wide-ranging concerts of music by Berlioz and his contemporaries, there is a rare staging of Meyerbeer's Le prophète (26 July to 4 August) directed by Christian Räth, with the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein and featuring Robert Watson (Siegmund in Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Die Walküre at the Staatsoper, Berlin) in the title role plus Jennifer Feinstein as Fidès. Meyerbeer's Le prophète featured at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918 as a vehicle for Enrico Caruso, and returned in 1977 with James McCracken and Marilyn Horne, since then I am […]
2023-08-24 06:45:00
The Bayreuth Festival is thrust into a new age, the digital age, by the application of Augmented Reality in a ground-breaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal
[…] might as well sit at home and watch Wagner on DVD’. There you have it!Reviewed by Tony cooperConductor: Pablo Heras-Casado Director: Jay Scheib Stage designer: Mimi Lien Lighting designer: Rainer Casper Costume designer: Meentje Nielsen Video/AR designer: Joshua Higgason Dramaturg: Marlene Schleicher Chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich Amfortas: Derek Welton Titurel: Tobias Kehrer Gurnemanz: Georg Zeppenfeld Parsifal: Andreas Schager Klingsor: Jordan Shanahan Kundry: Ekaterina Gubanova First Knight: Siyabonga Maqungo Second Knight: Jens-Erik Aasbø First Squire: Betsy Horne Second Squire: Margaret Plummer Third Squire: Jorge Rodríguez-Norton Fourth Squire: Garrie Davislim Klingsor’s Zaubermädchen: Julia Grüter, Betsy Horne, Evelin Novak, Margaret Plummer, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Camille Schnoor, Alto solo: Marie Henriette Reinhold Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogRevenge is the name of the Dutchman’s game: Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival - opera reviewUnbound […]
2023-08-21 14:00:58
Horne aplenty
Recent discussion about the merits of Le Prophète has prompted Chris’s Cache to unearth a pirate recording of Meyerbeer’s opera with Marilyn Horne, Rita Shane and Guy Chauvet led by Charles Mackerras, along with an earlier collaboration of the mezzo and conductor: Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice in which Horne goes to hell to get back Adriana Maliponte with the help of Judith Blegen.
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