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2015-07-20 04:13:00
The Cleveland Orchestra – Strauss’s Daphne. Franz Welser-Most, conductor. July 18, 2015.
[…] killing him in the ensuing argument. Daphne acknowledges her responsibility for the tragedy. Apollo also asks for forgiveness and asking to love Daphne in the form of a laurel tree. This “bucolic tragedy,” as Strauss calls it, ends with Daphne singing off-stage among the shimmering sound of the orchestra. Daphne – Regine Hangler, Leukippos – Norbert Ernst, Apollo, Andreas Schager, Peneios (Daphne’s father) – Ain Anger, Gaea (wife of Peneios) – Nancy Maultsby.Concert Chorale of New York, James Bassi, music director. I of course know many people with the given name of Daphne, but never did try to find out the story behind that name. A couple of years ago, while visiting Rome, we stopped by the Borghese Museum, and saw this statue of Apollo and Daphne (by Bernini, 1620s); the story there was Daphne tried to evade Apollo’s advance by turning into a laurel tree. […]
2015-07-16 18:38:14
Blow a kiss, take a bough
[…] and straining for top notes. Wagner is really much gentler on his singers than Strauss, and there is no place to take cover. Still, if I hadn’t once heard it sung flawlessly, I’d account Schager’s a first-rate performance. Norbert Ernst had an easier time with the mortal but still stentorian Leukippos, Daphne’s unfortunate mortal boyfriend. He had room to glide and nothing too high to surmount. Estonian bass Ain Anger sang Peneios graciously but Nancy Maultsby, as Gaea, rasped for attention, her earth-mother depths only intermittently effective. Two of the liveliest brief roles in all opera are Daphne’s maids (fishermen’s daughters have maids? Two maids? Two Wagnerian soprano maids?), brilliant and flavorful parts, who flirt with Leukippos and sing, with him, the equivalent of a pas de trois in some grand ballet. They were captivatingly performed by Lauren Snouffer and Anya Matanovic. Photo: Stephanie Berger
2015-07-16 04:03:00
Daphne - Cleveland Orchestra, 7/15/2015Hangler, Schager, Ernst, Maultsby, Anger / Welser-MöstRemember the city's last notable concert presentation of Strauss, wherein Andris Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic brought not only a triumphant account of Salome, but revelatory new soprano Gun-Brit Barkmin in the title role? Well, this show wasn't really like that. An excellent night at the opera? Yes. Instant stardom? Not for the soprano, anyway...Regine Hangler isn't, mind you, bad: in fact she has just about the right voice for Daphne, a sort of oversized clearish lyric instrument that recalled the great middle-European Strauss singers of old. But if timbre and scale are near-ideal, the rest isn't so great. Perhaps recalling the not-so-good side of the old days, Hangler's pitch on high notes started off dicey, firmed up in the middle, and unfortunately started to wander again near the end. Bearable, but […]
2015-07-16 02:03:56
Daphne - Cleveland Orchestra, 7/15/2015 Hangler, Schager, Ernst, Maultsby, Anger / Welser-Möst Remember the city's last notable concert presentation of Strauss, wherein Andris Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic brought not only a triumphant account of Salome, but revelatory new soprano Gun-Brit Barkmin in the title role? Well, this show wasn't really like that. An excellent night at the opera? Yes. Instant stardom? Not for the soprano, anyway... Regine Hangler isn't, mind you, bad: in fact she has just about the right voice for Daphne, a sort of oversized clearish lyric instrument that recalled the great middle-European Strauss singers of old. But if timbre and scale are near-ideal, the rest isn't so great. Perhaps recalling the not-so-good side of the old days, Hangler's pitch on high notes started off dicey, firmed up in the middle, and unfortunately started to wander again near the end. Bearable, but her lack of musical/theatrical […]
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