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Die Frau ohne Schatten, Semperoper Dresden, 27 March 2024
Evelyn Herlitzius (Die Amme), Miina-Liisa Värelä (Baraks Frau), Komparserie; all images © Semperoper Dresden/Ludwig OlahEmperor – Eric Cutler Empress – Camilla Nylund Nurse – Evelyn Herlitzius Spirit-Messenger – Andreas Bauer Kanabas Barak – Oleksandr Pushniak Dyer’s Wife – Mina-Liisa Värelä Apparition of Youth – Martin Mitterrutzner Voice of the Falcon – Lea-ann Dunbar Voice from Above – Christa Mayer Guardian of the Threshold of the Temple – Nikola Hillebrand The One-Eyed – Rafael Fingerlos The One-Armed – Tilmann Rönnebeck The Hunchback – Tansel Akzeyebek Children’s Voices – Nikola Hillebrand, Sofia Savenko, Lea-ann Dunbar, Stephanie Atanasov, Dominika Škrabalová, Michal Doron Servants – Bryndis Gudjonsdottir, Sofia Savenko, Dominika ŠkrabalováDirector – David BöschSet designs – Patrick BannwartCostumes – Moana StembergerLighting – Fabio AntociVideo – Falko Herold, Patrick BannwartDramaturgy – Johann Casimir EuleChildren’s Chorus (director: Claudia Sebastian-Bertsch) of the Semperoper Dresden Chorus (director: André Kellinghaus) of the Semperoper DresdenSächsische Staatskapelle DresdenChristian Thielemann (conductor) Dresden […]
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Faces of classical music
2019-02-17 12:11:00
The best new classical albums: February 2019
Recording of the MonthFranz Liszt: Mazeppa (Symphonic Poem No.6, S.100) & Sardanapalo (unfinished opera, S.687)Joyce El-Khoury, sopranoAiram Hernández, tenorOleksandr Pushniak, baritoneOpera Chorus Nationaltheater WeimarStaatskapelle WeimarConductor: Kirill KarabitsRecorded August 17-20, 2018, Congress Centrum Neue WeimarhalleReleased on February 8, 2019 by AuditeAn immensely important issue, this is the first recording of the performing edition by British musicologist David Trippett of Sardanapalo, the only projected opera by the mature Liszt of which substantial material survives. Its genesis remains to some extent shrouded in mystery. Byron's 1821 play Sardanapalus, about the sensualist Assyrian king who immolated himself and his mistress after failing to quell an insurrection, was among the subjects that Liszt was contemplating, as early as 1842, to mark his return to opera, his only previous work in the genre being the juvenile Don Sanche of 1825. Why he chose Sardanapalo over, among others, Byron's Corsair and an opera about Spartacus, is seemingly unknown. […]
2019-02-07 15:00:11
Franz Liszt: Sardanapalo, Mazeppa review – lost opera of glittering scope | Classical CD of the week
El-Khoury / Hernández / Pushniak / Staatskapelle Weimar / Karabits (Audite)Musicologist David Trippet skilfully reconstructs a Liszt opera fragment, illustrating the composer’s fertile musical mind Received wisdom has been that Liszt wrote only one opera, and that it’s not very good; even the composer’s most dedicated admirers dismiss the teenage composer’s
2018-01-28 15:02:00
Rheingold Jurowski, RFH and van Zweden ,Hong Kong
[…] Kong in 2015. Last week Van Zweden conducted Götterdämmerung in Hong Kong, which a lot of my friends there attended too, and loved. How lucky I am to have an international network ! The Hong Kong Ring is pretty good, easily equal to many other Rings, and much better than some. Recommended ! The Rheingold cast was upmarket, and included stars like Michelle DeYoung (also in last week's Götterdämmerung ), Matthias Goerne, Kwangchul Youn, Oleksander Pushniak, Eri Nakamura, Stephen Milling and others (link here) And the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is pretty impressive. Decades ago I did backstage support for them - wow, am I ever proud. For Hong Kong, this Ring was a coming-of-age statement. The city sits on the edge of a massive hinterland, its potential market not only China but the world. In Asia, people don't sneer at classical music for being elitist. They see it as […]
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