Michèle Losier News
Canadian singer
- mezzo-soprano
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- opera singer, performing artist
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2020-08-04 16:19:13
Der Rosenkavalier
Camilla Nylund, Günther Groissböck, Michèle Losier and Nadine Sierra star, under the baton of Zubin Mehta.
2019-02-02 18:13:00
Berlioz Les Troyens, Paris - How to kill an opera
[…] to the heights, either. A rather depressing Royal Hunt and Storm, saved by Jordan's incisive conducting, splendidly luminous in the love scene, and demonic in the storm. So rewarding, in fact, you could enjoy this Les Troyens as an orchestral exercise. Very well cast minor roles - Véronique Gens as Hécube and Paata Burchulzade as Priam, who can still create character, Thomas Dear as The Ghost of Hector, Aude Extrémo as Anna, Cyrille Dubois as Iopas,Michèle Losier as a very fetching Ascagne, Christian van Horn as Narbal. At the end D'Oustrac, Dégout, Gens, Burchulzade and Dear return as ghosts, raising the staging from the grave. With this conductor, this orchestra and most of this cast, this Les Troyens could have been brilliant, but let's hope we won't have to wait another 30 years for a better production. This staging might be fine in some provincial house, but Paris is not the […]
2019-02-01 20:41:00
Les Troyens, Opéra national de Paris, 28 January 2019
Opéra Bastille Énée (Brandon Jovanovich)Images: Vincent Pontet / Opéra national de Paris Cassandre – Stéphanie d’Oustrac Ascagne – Michèle Losier Hécube – Véronique Gens Énée – Brandon Jovanovich Chorèbe – Stéphane Degout Panthée – Christian Helmer Hector’s Ghost – Thomas Dear Priam – Paata Burchuladze Greek Captain – Jean-Luc Ballestra Soldier – Jean-François Marras Polyxène – Sophie Clasisse Didon – Ekaterina Semenchuk Anna – Aude Extrémo Iopas – Cyrille Dubois Hylas – Bror Magnus Tødenes Narbal – Christian von Horn Mercure, Priest of Pluto – Bernard Arrieta Créuse – Natasha Mashkevich Andromaque – Mathilde Kopytto Astyanax – Emile Gouasdoué Polyxène – Francesca Lo Bue Dmitri Tcherniakov (director, set designs) Elena Zaytseva (costumes) Gleb Filshtinsky (lighting) Tieni Burkhalter (video) Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris (chorus master: José Luis Basso) Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris Philippe Jordan (conductor) […]
2018-12-08 09:12:52
A new record label, a new disc: I chat to Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka about bel canto and more
Donizetti: Anna Bolena - Michele Losier, Marina Rebeka - Opera National Bordeaux 2018 (Photo Maitetxu Etcheverria) The Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka has just released a new recital disc, Spirito, of bel canto arias by Bellini, Donizetti, and Spontini, on her new label, Prima Classic. Whilst appearing in the title role in Donizetti's Anna Bolena in Bordeaux, Marina made a brief visit to London and I was lucky enough to be able to meet up with her to chat about the new disc, and about her plans for the new label. Marina Rebeka (Photo Jānis Deinats) Spirito has scenes from Bellini's Norma and Il Pirata, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Anna Bolena, and Spontini's La Vestale, and in fact, they could all be classified as mad scenes or prayers and I wondered whether that had been a deliberate choice. In fact, Marina had chosen what she felt was the most […]
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