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Rimsky-Korsakov - Orchestral Suites
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)Suite from 'Snow Maiden'Suite from 'Legend of the Invisible City of KitezhNuit sur le Mont TriglavRussian National OrchestraMikhail Pletnev - directionRecorded January 2009Label: Pentatone PTC 5186 362
2024-03-18 02:43:58
Thia Monday, March 18, 2024 would be the 180th birthday of the Russian Romantic composer, Nikolai Ri
2024-02-20 10:00:00
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 […]
2024-02-04 11:53:00
The Golden Cockerel, Komische Oper, 3 February 2024
SchillertheaterKing Dodon – Alexander Roslavets Prince Guidon – Pavel Valuzhin Prince Aphron – Hubert Zapiór General Polkan – Alexander Vassiliev Amelfa – Margarita Nekrasova Golden Cockerel – Julia Muzychenko, Daniel Daniela Ojeda Yrureta Queen of Shemakha – Kseniia Proshina Astrologer – James Kryshak First Boyar – Taiki Miyashita Second Boyar – Jan-Frank Süße Dancers – Michael Fernandez, Lorenzo Soragni, Silvano Marraffa, Kai Chun ChungDirector – Barrie KoskyAssistant director – Denni SayersSet design – Rufus DidwiszusCostumes – Victoria BehrChoreography – Otto PichlerDramaturgy – Olaf A. Schmitt, Meike LieserLighting – Franck Evin Orchestra and Chorus of the Komische Oper (chorus director: David Cavelius)James Gaffigan (conductor)Images: Monika Rittershaus Two productions, very different, of Rimsky-Korsakov’s last opera, The Golden Cockerel, within two years: James Conway for English Touring Opera, which I saw in Hackney, and now Barrie Kosky’s new production for Berlin’s Komische Oper in its temporary home in Charlottenburg. Both are experienced, though neither […]
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