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Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] the better of his greedy brother, Fasolt (Matthew Rose) - brothers in crime only! - by the help of a handgun. Another bullet to the head and another nod to Frank Castorf, too, while Anna Kissjudit delivered an impeccable and forthright performance as Erda. Of the more junior roles, South African-born tenor, Siyabonga Maqungo, was heard to extremely good effect as Froh while Roman Trekel made a strong impression in the companion role of Donner. Siegfried - Staatsoper Berlin, 2022 (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)Providing an idyllic setting for the preparation of the Gods' journey to Valhalla, the courtyard of ESCHE provided the departure lounge with the contingent of the heavenly-bound passengers seen happily sitting comfy on circular benches surrounding a mature flowering tree, a representation, maybe, of the World Ash Tree. Who knows? Tcherniakov? Anyhow, it was one of the very few hints of Nature to be seen in […]
2024-03-25 23:45:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18, 19, 21, and 24 March 2024
Images: Monika RittershausBrünnhilde (Anja Kampe)Wotan/Wanderer – Tomas Konieczny Donner, Gunther – Roman Trekel Froh – Siyabonga Maqungo Loge – Rolando Villazón Fricka – Claudia Mahnke Freia – Anett Fritsch Erda, Rossweisse – Anna Kissjudit Alberich – Johannes Martin Kränzle Mime – Stephan Rügamer Fasolt – Matthew Rose Fafner – Peter Rose Woglinde – Evelin Novak Wellgunde – Natalia Skrycka Flosshilde, Siegrune – Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Siegmund – Robert Watson Sieglinde – Vida Miknevičutė Hunding – René Pape Brünnhilde – Anja Kampe Gerhilde – Clara Nadeshdin Helmwige – Christiane Kohl Waltraute – Michal Doron, Violeta Urmana Schwertleite – Alexandra Ionis Ortlinde, Third Norn – Anna Samuil Grimgerde – Aytaj Shikhalizada Siegfried – Andreas Schager Woodbird – Victoria Randem Hagen – Stephen Milling Gutrune – Mandy Friedrich First Norn – Marina Prudenskaya Second Norn – Kristina StanekDirector – Dmitri TcherniakovRevival directors – Lilli Fischer, Thorsten CölleCostumes – Elena ZaytsevaLighting – Gleb FilshtinskyVideo – Alexey […]
All the conducting master class
2024-03-24 02:36:00
Assistant·e chef·fe en résidence (part-time, one-year) La nature de la nomination de l’assistant·e chef·fe en résidence de l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec a pour but de Donner l’opportunité à un·e chef·fe canadien·ne de lancer sa carrière et de travailler sur unebase régulière avec un orchestre symphonique professionnel de premier plan.L’assistant·e chef·fe en résidence travaillera en étroite […]
2023-08-30 06:28:00
[…] from Christa Mayer as Fricka, seen at the end of the opera nervously cradling a white neon-lit square box harbouring a flickering triangular image of Valhalla which regularly pops up throughout the cycle but flickers out entirely at the end of Götterdämmerung. Nervously playing her sister, Freia, Hailey Clark, busy shining her golden apples, delivered a sensitive and engaging performance while Okka von der Damerau’s portrayal of Erda was sublime. The two minor roles of Donner and Froh - which I always associate with those two minor characters in Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - were extremely well portrayed by Raimund Nolte and Attilio Glaser. Wagner: Die Walkure - Tomasz Konieczny, Georg Zeppenfeld, Christa Mayer - Bayreuth Festival 2023 (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Really, I’ve never giving much thought as to what happens to Freia after Rheingold when her life is spared after Wotan throws the cursed ring on to the […]
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