Rodolphe Briand News
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2016-05-11 17:37:46
[…] a fairytale. On a huge video screen behind the orchestra, we see the turning pages of an illustrated storybook, from which the characters emerge.The opera is sung in German, although six actors deliver the dialogue in English. Fischer’s direction is witty, playful and non-interventionist, and there are some fine insights. Having a young, handsome Sarastro (Krisztián Cser) tellingly makes him a rival to Bernard Richter’s Tamino for the affections of Hanna-Elisabeth Müller’s Pamina. Only Rodolphe Briand’s Monostatos, in bondage gear, strikes a slightly awkward note. Continue reading...
2013-08-12 20:54:21
New fashioned wedding
[…] Marcellina after having already suffered through two at the Met in 2007 and 2009. Although she began encouragingly by not pushing in the duet with Susanna, unfortunately her voice soon devolved into a harsh squall. Her Bartolo, Andrew Shore, who had been such a fine Don Alfonso in Mostly Mozart’s 2004 Così Fan Tutte, has apparently experienced a precipitous decline in the meantime: his “La vendetta” was ugly, empty bluster. More happily, French tenor Rodolphe Briand made a fine US debut as both a wittily sung Don Basilio (too bad his aria was cut) and an unctuous Don Curzio. Despite some real vocal weaknesses, this intimate and detailed Nozze often brought out the wit and humanity of Mozart’s masterpiece. As its three performances this summer quickly sold out and yesterday’s elicited the inevitable standing ovation, I suspect that we will be seeing a Così by Fischer and the BFO sometime […]
2013-04-30 02:01:51
[…] early. 8/9-18 the Bard Summerscape Music Festival spotlights Stravinsky and his world upstate in Annandale: roundtrip shuttle bus available from NYC. Too many shows to list, the entire calendar is here . 8/9, 10 PM Chuck Prophet at the Bell House, $12 adv tix rec 8/10, 8 PM Nick Lowe at Damrosch Park 8/11, 5 PM the Como Mamas – whose latest a-cappella gospel album is off the hook – followed by Motown’s Briand & Eddie Holland, Allen Toussaind and then Bobby Rush – at Damrosch Park 8/15, 7 PM Bachata Heightz at Highbridge Park in Manhattan 8/23-24 the Charlie Parker Festival. 8/23 at 8 PM features a Charlie Parker tribute by the Jimmy Heath Big Band at Marcus Garvey Park; 8/24 at 3 has vibraphonist Warren Wolf & the Wolf Gang, Christian Scott, Sheila Jordan and Lee Konitz leading a quartet at Tompkins Square Park […]
2010-01-09 17:02:00
[…] Sophie Marilley and Zoryana Kushpler, conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Espace 2 - From Cologne, Mozart's Così fan tutte, with Iulia Isaev, Bernarda Fink, Marcel Reijans, Marcel Boone, Pietro Spagnoli, Graciela Oddone, conducted by René Jacobs. Klara - From La Scala, the December 7th opening night performance of Bizet's Carmen, with Anita Rachvelishvili, Jonas Kaufmann, Erwin Schrott, Adriana Damato, Gabor Bretz, Mathias Hausmann, Michèle Losier, Adriana Kucerová, Gabriel Da Costa, Francis Dudziac, Rodolphe Briand and Carmine Maringola, conducted by Daniel Barenboim. WDAV - From NPR World of Opera (on a one week delay), a Royal Opera House, Covent Garden performance of Tchaikovsky's The Tsarina's Slippers, with Olga Guryakova, Vsevolod Grivnov, Larissa Diadkova, Vladimir Matorin, ergei Leiferkuss, Maxim Mikhailov, Vyacheslav Voynarovsky, Alexander Vassiliev and John Upperton, conducted by Alexander Polianichko. Concert FM (New Zealand) & ABC Classic FM (Australia) - Now that the Antipodes have begun their […]
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