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2024-01-30 07:50:00
Back with vengeance: Nina Stemme in Richard Strauss' Elektra at Covent Garden
Strauss: Elektra - Nina Stemme, Sara Jakubiak - Royal Opera (Photo: ROH/Tristram Kenton)Strauss: Elektra; Nina Stemme, Sara Jakubiak, Karita Mattila, Charles Workman, Lukasz Golinski, director: Christof Loy, conductor: Antonio Pappano; Royal Opera HouseReviewed 26 January 2024Nina Stemme back on form with a coruscating performance in the title role in a new production that showcases the vividly dramatic performances from the entire cast supported by the orchestra on top formI have been lucky with my Elektras over the years. My first was Pauline Tinsley in 1979 in Harry Kupfer's production for Welsh National Opera. I saw it on tour in Glasgow, and as far as I can tell this was the last time the work has been fully staged in Scotland (and that performance in Glasgow was the first time it had been staged there since 1910).Then in 1988, I was lucky enough to catch Gwyneth Jones on terrific form in the very last revival of Rudolf […]
2021-10-10 08:59:14
Intense and redemptive: Janacek's Jenůfa in the new production at Covent Garden
[…] and step-mother, and in many ways Grigorian's daughter was in the same image as her step-mother, as portrayed by Mattila, the two had the same sense of control, dignity and focused intensity. Which makes it all the more shocking when Mattila's Kostelnicka had her 'mad scene' at the end of Act Two. Vocally, I found Mattila (a former soprano) somewhat less whiplash intense than previous incumbents of the role (Susan Bickley, Susan Bullock and Pauline Tinsley for example), but Henrik Nanasi's quite refulgent approach in the orchestra might have also been to blame. Mattila' final scene, where Guth cleared everything away except the necessary, was profoundly moving in terms of drama, singing and the expressivity of body language. Janacek: Jenůfa - Jeremy White, Karita Mattila, Asmik Grigorian, Nicky Spence - Royal Opera House (Photo Ivor Kerslake/ROH) The two men in Jenůfa's life were superbly contrasted both […]
2021-05-14 19:41:40
Soprano whose commanding presence in Wagner, Verdi and Strauss was better appreciated internationally than in BritainThe soprano Pauline Tinsley, who has died aged 93, was idolised by audiences and critics alike for her peerless performances in a wide range of repertoire, yet was consistently passed over by the operatic establishment. The blazing intensity of her singing in such roles as Turandot, the Dyer’s Wife in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Elektra or any number of Verdi heroines could be searing and imprinted itself on the memories of countless operagoers, but notwithstanding acclaimed appearances with Sadler’s Wells Opera (1963–74, the year in which it became English National Opera) and Welsh National Opera (1962–72 and 1975–81), her talents were unaccountably neglected later in her career, both by British national opera houses and by commercial record companies.
2021-05-13 14:00:32
In memoriam Pauline Tinsley
Pauline Tinsley, who died May 11, made few commercial recordings; Trove Thursday offers the thrilling English soprano in excerpts over nearly two decades from nine works ranging from Handel to Richard Strauss.
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