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2024-04-02 16:24:00
St Matthew Passion, Deutsche Oper, 29 March 2024
Evangelist – Kieran Carrel Jesus – Padraic Rowan Bass – Joel Allison Tenor, False Witness – Kangyoon Shine Lee Petrus, High Priest, Pontifex II – Youngkwang Oh Pilatus, Judas, Pontifex I – Artur Garbas Soprano, First Maid – Siobhan Stagg Alto, False Witness, Second Maid – Annika Schlicht Girl – Zoé Höchse Friend – Selina Nüsse Director – Benedikt von PeterRevival directors – Eva-Maria Abelein, Matteo Marziano GrazianoSet designs – Natascha von SteigerCostumes – Lene SchwindVideo – Bert ZanderLighting – Roland EdrichDramaturgy – Dorothea HartmannChildren’s and Youth Choirs of the Deutsche Oper (director: Christian Lindhorst)Youth Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den LindenChildren’s Choir of the Aalto-Theatre, Essen (director: Patrik Jaskolka)Chorus of the Deutsche Oper (director: Jeremy Bines)Orchestra of the Deutsche OperAlessandro De Marchi (conductor)Images: Marcus Lieberenz Had someone told me I should be attending performances of the two Bach Passions on consecutive evenings, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, in Leipzig and […]
2024-03-25 08:15:00
Lush romanticism was a long way away: an immersive contemporary interpretation of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater from Figure
Our Mother - Rowan Pierce, Emma Kirkby, Alexandra Achillea Pouta - Figure at Stone Nest (Photo: Kristina Allen)Our Mother: Pergolesi: Stabat Mater with interludes by Alex Mills; Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce, Alexandra Achillea Pouta, Nadya Pickup, Figure, Frederick Waxman, Sophie Daneman; Stone NestReviewed 23 March 2024An abstract, immersive staging, concentrating on dramatising the emotional arc of Pergolesi's work interleaved with impressive new interludes from young composer Alex MillsHistorical performance group, Figure, music director Frederick Waxman, has become known for its fascinatingly staged interpretation of classics and recent work has included Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream at Opera Holland Park and This is my Body, an immersive staging of Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri [see my review]. For their latest project, Our Mother at Stone Nest (seen 23 March 2024), Figure performed Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with new interludes by composer Alex Mills. The soloists were Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce, Alexandra Achillea Pouta and Nadya Pickup, […]
2024-02-21 18:49:00
Le nozze di Figaro, Deutsche Oper, 20 February 2024
Count Almaviva – Thomas LehmanCountess Almaviva – Maria Motolygina Susanna – Lilit Daviyan Figaro – Artur Garbas Cherubino – Meechot Marrero Marcellina – Michaela Kaune Don Basilio – Burkhard Ulrich Don Curzio – Chance Jonas-O’Toole Bartolo – Padraic Rowan Antonio – Patrick Guetti Barbarina – Ketevan Chuntishvili Two Bridesmaids – Yuuki Tamai, Asaha Wada Director – Götz FriedrichSet designs – Herbert WernickeCostumes – Herbert Wernicke, Ogün WernickeRevival director – Gerlinde PelkowskiChorus (chorus director: Thomas Richter) of the Deutsche Oper Orchestra of the Deutsche OperGiulio Cilona (conductor)DIE HOCHZEIT DES FIGARO von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin,copyright: Bettina StößCount Almaviva (Thomas Lehman), Susanna (Lilit Dayivan), Don Basilio (Burkhard Ulrich)Next stop on my tour of Berlin’s ‘vintage’ opera productions: Götz Friedrich’s Deutsche Oper Marriage of Figaro, a joy to encounter in itself and a nice sequel to Ruth Berghaus’s Barber of Seville across town at the Staatsoper. Friedrich’s productions are gradually making their […]
2024-02-08 08:14:00
Sitting in a concert hall is not a great place to have a musical experience: Frederick Waxman introduces Our Mother, Figure's dramatic staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
This is my body Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri from Figure at the Swiss Church in 2023The ensemble Figure, co-artistic directors Frederick Waxman and Philip Barrett, has had some considerable success with its stagings at Opera Holland Park of Handel's Serse (in 2022) and Shakespeare/Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream (in 2023), but last year the company also created a remarkable immersive staging Buxtehude's sacred cantata sequence Membra Jesu Nostri [see my review].From 20 to 23 March 2024 they will be presenting Our Mother at Stone Nest. This will be a dramatised staging of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with additional music by Alex Mills. Directed by Sophie Daneman, the staging will be performed by women of multiple generations, Dame Emma Kirkby, Catherine Carby, Rowan Pierce and Katie MacDonald.When I chatted to Frederick Waxman about the production he commented that whilst everyone knows the first 20 seconds or so of Pergolesi's music, they wanted to […]
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