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2024-01-22 07:34:00
Let the dialogue flow: Benjamin Bernheim leads a wonderfully memorable account of Massenet's Werther in Zurich
[…] it was rejected by the Opéra Comique in Paris as being too serious. Eventually the work would be premiered in Vienna at the Hofoper in German in 1892. The first performance in the original French was later in 1892 in Geneva, with the first performance in France not happening until 1893 when it was given by the Théâtre Lyrique and it was not until 1903 that the Opéra Comique took the work on.In Zurich, Klaus Grünberg's set consisted of a single wood panelled box with compartments/cupboards that opened to reveal the necessaries for the plot - dinner things, bread, Albert's pistol, an organ for Act Two, an urn with Charlotte's mother's ashes and so on. Costumes (by Silke Willrett) were roughly modern, however no mobile phones and Le Bailli uses a small portable typewriter.Massenet: Werther - Benjamin Bernheim, Rihab Chaib - Zurich Opera (Photo: Toni Suter)But there was also a […]
2020-07-14 22:17:46
Ida Haendel, the Polish-born violinist who lived in Montreal from 1952 to 1989, died early on July 1 at her home in Florida. Her nephew Richard Grunberg described her passing as peaceful on social media. Haendel’s age was long a subject of debate, turning in part on the question of whether she really could have won [...]
2019-11-22 01:06:00
Adler Fellows Concert, December 6, 2019
2019 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows (Photo: Cheshire Isaacs/San Francisco Opera) The annual year-end Adler Fellows concert is coming up in about two weeks, and as always it's varied and interesting. Eun Sun Kim conducts; she was fabulous in June's Rusalka, so it's likely to be very well conducted.Here's the program; the missing detail is that tickets will cost $30-65. This concert does tend to sell out, so buy soon.(I will admit it: I am faintly dubious at a countertenor in Berlioz, as wonderful as Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen is. I once heard a countertenor in the Brahms Four Serious Songs, and that did not work at all.)THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLER FELLOWS CONCERT Friday, December 6, 2019 at 7:30 P.M. Herbst Theatre, Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco Featuring the 2019 Adler Fellows: Mary Evelyn Hangley and Natalie Image, sopranos Ashley Dixon and Simone McIntosh, mezzo-sopranos Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor SeokJong Baek, Zhengyi Bai, Christopher […]
2019-06-07 02:00:00
The final repertory for the first half of the program and the cast for L'enfant et les sortilges:The first half of the program features an eclectic mix of chamber works by Debussy, Ravel, and Fauré. Pianist John Wilson performs excerpts from Debussy’s playful Children’s Corner and the sensual La Plus que lente, joined by members of the San Francisco Symphony. This is followed by the Allegro molto movement from Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, featuring SFS musicians Helen Kim on violin, Matthew Young on viola, Sébastien Gingras on cello, and pianist Sayaka Tanikawa. Mezzo-soprano Ginger Costa-Jackson sings Debussy’s “Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison” withPeter Grunberg on piano and, rounding out the first half, pianists Grunberg and Wilson perform Ravel’s The Enchanted Garden from Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose), inspired by children’s stories from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French collections, especially Charles Perrault’s Contes de ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Tales, published in 1697). That's right, it's all chamber music, which has me scratching my head. They must really need the rehearsal time for the Ravel.And here's […]
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