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2024-03-09 12:50:00
Parsifal, Deutsche Oper, 8 March 2024
Amfortas – Jordan Shanahan Titurel – Andrew Harris Gurnemanz – Günther Groissböck Parsifal – Klaus Florian Vogt Kundry – Irene Roberts Klingsor – Joachim Göltz Knights of the Grail – Patrick Cook, Youngkwang Oh Esquires – Sua Jo, Arianna Manganello, Kieran Carrel, Chance Jonas-O’Toole Flowermaidens – Flurina Stucki, Sua Jo, Arianna Manganello, Hye-Young Moon, Mechot Marrero, Marie-Luise Dreßen Voice from Above – Marie-Luise DreßenDirector – Philipp StölzlCo-director – Mara KurotschkaSet designs – Conrad Moritz Reinhardt, Philipp StölzlCostumes – Kathi MaurerLighting – Ulrich NiepelRevival director – Silke Sense Chorus, Men of the Extra Chorus, and Children’s Chorus of the Deutsche Oper, Berlin (chorus masters: Jeremy Bines and Christian Lindhorst)Opern-Ballet, Statisterie, and Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper, BerlinDonald Runnicles (conductor)PARSIFAL von Richard Wagner, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright.Image: Matthias BausMemory plays all manner of tricks: major and minor. I could have sworn I had seen Philipp Stölzl’s Deutsche Oper Parsifal twice before this, distinctly […]
2024-01-14 14:18:00
Die Zauberflöte, Deutsche Oper, 11 January 2024
Sarastro – Tobias Kehrer Tamino – Kieran Carrel Speaker – Padraic Rowan First Priest – Kyle Miller Second Priest – Jörg Schörner Queen of the Night – Hye-Young Moon Pamina – Elena Tsallagova First Lady – Flurina Stucki Second Lady – Arianna Manganello Third Lady – Davia Bouley Papagena – Meechot Marrero Papageno – Philipp Jekal Monostatos – Burkhard Ulrich First Armoured Man – Patrick Cook Second Armoured Man – Youngkwang Oh Three Boys – Soloists from the Children’s Choir of the Deutsche OperDirector – Günter KrämerRevival director – Gerlinde PelkowskiDesigns – Andreas ReinhardtChorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (chorus director: Thomas Richter) Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper BerlinGiulio Cilona (conductor)DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Bettina StößImages from 2008, with different cast Premiered on 24 September 1991, six days short of 200 years from the work’s first performance, Günther Krämer’s Magic Flute has done sterling service […]
2022-06-06 00:56:00
Ruth Reinhardt at San Francisco Symphony
Ruth Reinhardt made her debut conducting at San Francisco Symphony this past week, and drew a program of Mason Bates's new piano concerto, written for Daniil Trifonov, a short work by Lotta Wennäkoski, and Dvorak's Fifth Symphony. Wennäkoski's Om fotspår och ljus (Of Footprints and Light) didn't make a huge impression, and I was mildly disconcerted by a distinct change of style and tone partway through, undoubtedly where the composer incorporated music from a mid-20th c. work by a different composer. I also didn't take any notes, so, not much to say. The Bates....what to say. I had mixed feelings (which shocked one friend), but sure, I liked some aspects of it. Trifonov played with his accustomed fluency and smoothness; some of the musical materials were pretty and interesting to listen to. Overall, though? Well, none of the three movements had what I would call shape or direction […]
2022-05-01 17:47:00
Joshua Kosman had a fine column the other day in the SF Chronicle, about the several upcoming concerts at San Francisco Symphony that are conducted by women, namely, Xian Zhang, Karina Canellakis, Nathalie Stutzmann, and Ruth Reinhardt. This reminded me of my response, back in 2007, to a truly godawful profile of Marin Alsop, by Anthony Tommasini. Among other things, he had the nerve to say that "The dearth of leading female conductors is ultimately inexplicable," which, of course, it's not. (This is here to remind you that the NY Times paid him to be their chief classical music critic for quite a few years, years during which the women who were writing regularly for the classical music section failed to be hired as full-time employees and then largely disappeared from its pages. I'm sure that this is inexplicable too.) Joshua goes on to write the following about conductor Talia Ilan on the lack […]
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