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2019-10-03 12:55:00
Katharina Kammerloher and friends - Wolf, Schoenberg, Brahms, Mahler, Wolf, Reutter, and Falla, 2 October 2019
Apollo Saal, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Wolf: Auf einer Wanderung; Verschwiegene Liebe; Begegnung; Nimmersatte Liebe; Lied vom Winde Schoenberg: Brettl-Lieder: ‘Galathea’, ‘Mahnung’, ‘Arie aus dem “Spiegel von Arkadien”’ Brahms: Feinsliebchen, du sollst mir nicht barfuß gehn, WoO 33 no.12; Da unten im Tale, WoO 33 no.6; Vergebliches Ständchen, op.84 no.4 Mahler: Des knaben Wunderhorn: ‘Trost im Unglück’; ‘Verlorne Müh’’; ‘Aus! Aus!’ Brahms: Zigeunerlieder, op.103: ‘Brauner Bursche’, ‘Röslein dreie’ Wolf: In dem Schatten meiner Locken Brahms: Liebesglut, op.47 no.2 Wolf: Die Zigeunerin Hermann Reutter: Tanz Falla, arr. Christian Dominik Dellacher: Siete canciones populares españolas (first performance) Katharina Kammerloher (mezzo-soprano) Roman Trekel (baritone) Klaus Sallmann, (piano) Ensemble Monbijou: Dana Sturm (piano), Tobias Sturm (violin), Boris Bardenhagen (viola), Hannah Eichberg (cello), Kaspar Loyal (double bass). With this recital, mezzo-soprano Katharina […]
Royal Opera House (The Guardian)
2014-11-23 01:05:07
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House; Royal Academy of Music, London The dream girl isn’t quite what she seems in the Søren Nils Eichberg’s Glare. And Puccini is in safe hands at the Royal AcademyThat old showbusiness adage “never work with children or animals” should be extended to encompass the pool table. In the Royal Opera’s production of German/Danish composer Søren Nils Eichberg’s Glare it plays a central – and distracting – role, the game becoming so engrossing it’s easy to miss the crucial narrative being sung around it. And make a note now: in the unlikely event that bass Ashley Riches invites you to play, be quick to decline: he’s a real demon.Actually, his character, Michael, is a very real demon. He’s a nasty manipulator, a modern misogynist with a chilling desire to control everybody in his life, including his best friend, the over-sexed and socially inept Alex, who can’t quite […]
2014-11-16 17:16:36
Linsbury Studio, London With deft instrumental music but drawn-out vocals, Thaddeus Strassberger’s staging of this new Royal Opera commission embraces blood, vomit and violence Continue reading...
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Royal Opera House
2014-11-13 17:57:21
How to be perfect: Androids, humans and the danger of the ideal
Sky Ingram © Christina Raphaelle, 2014 ‘My girlfriend is too perfect.’ It sounds like the opening line for a Jeremy Kyle show. But what could the problem be? Strangely, perfection is a deeply worrying concept when applied to people. While we would all love to think ourselves flawless, the human condition just does not allow it. So could a perfect man or woman actually be human? It’s a classic sci-fi question of android vs human that now has an operatic outing in Søren Nils Eichberg ’s Glare . Isaac Asimov summarized the neurosis that lurks behind the idea of robots. We create them to serve us, we improve them to be like us, they become better than us, they enslave us. Finally they get rid of us – redundant and imperfect as we are. This scenario is played out repeatedly in science fiction, where a humanoid - indistinguishable from humans […]
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