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A festival of new music theatre: 18th Münchener Biennale explores the theme of good friends, opening with a new work based on writings by Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan
[…] (in a German translation by Claudia Dathe). The work examines the dramatic effect on the human individual of war, displacement and flight, using a blend of choral passages and short dialogues to depict everyday situations and fictional experiences of flight and forced migration. The production is a co-production with Deutsche Oper, Berlin, where the production opens on 21 May 2022. There are also premieres of works by Yoav Pasovsky, Ann Cleare, Lucia Kilger and Nicolas Berge, Polina Korobkova, Øyvind Torvund, and Malin Bång, as well as discussions and other events including the delightfully named Salon of Wondering and Views. Full details from the festival website
2019-02-01 20:41:00
Les Troyens, Opéra national de Paris, 28 January 2019
Opéra Bastille Énée (Brandon Jovanovich)Images: Vincent Pontet / Opéra national de Paris Cassandre – Stéphanie d’Oustrac Ascagne – Michèle Losier Hécube – Véronique Gens Énée – Brandon Jovanovich Chorèbe – Stéphane Degout Panthée – Christian Helmer Hector’s Ghost – Thomas Dear Priam – Paata Burchuladze Greek Captain – Jean-Luc Ballestra Soldier – Jean-François Marras Polyxène – Sophie Clasisse Didon – Ekaterina Semenchuk Anna – Aude Extrémo Iopas – Cyrille Dubois Hylas – Bror Magnus Tødenes Narbal – Christian von Horn Mercure, Priest of Pluto – Bernard Arrieta Créuse – Natasha Mashkevich Andromaque – Mathilde Kopytto Astyanax – Emile Gouasdoué Polyxène – Francesca Lo Bue Dmitri Tcherniakov (director, set designs) Elena Zaytseva (costumes) Gleb Filshtinsky (lighting) Tieni Burkhalter (video) Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris (chorus master: José Luis Basso) Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris Philippe Jordan (conductor) […]
2018-11-11 21:40:00
Germans and Britons - Leipzig honours the End of the First World War
[…] Walter Braunfels. Throughout his whole career, Braunfels was obssessed by war and the causes of war. To reinterpret his passionate anti-militarism as soft centred "romantiuc" is a travesty. Be careful which conductors you listen to In this concert, he was represented by just one song Auf ein Soldatengrab op 26 to a poem by Hermann Hesse, written in 1915. ".....Der Jugend wandelt licht in weiten Räumen und hört der Ahnen Chor aus dunklem Quell im heligen Berge träumen". Please read HERE for more about Braunfels' Orchestral Songs and also look up "Braunfels" on the link below. Gustav Holst's Ode to Death (1919) blends voices and orchestra to create lush textures which suddenly ignite into crescendo. returning again to ethereal harmonies "Over the treetops I float thee along, over the rising and sinking waves, come lovely and soothing death, come with joy!". Harps and fine, bell-like tones in the orchestra suggest […]
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Faces of classical music
2018-05-14 16:40:00
Mark Padmore sings Ludwig van Beethoven & Franz Schubert
[…] half of Beethoven songs, centered on the song "Adelaide" and the mini-cycle An die ferne geliebte, both of which Padmore released on disc just last year.In "Adelaide" the heroic demands at the top of the vocal range strained Padmore's voice, but he still sang with the phrases melting into one another beautifully. The cycle itself is almost perfectly suited to the strengths of Padmore's voice. In particular the otherwise ordinary second stanza of "Wo die Berge so blau", where the singer recites plainly on a single muted note while the piano fills in the melody, was magical.One particular moment tied the whole evening together, in the cycle's final song. In the third stanza, Padmore and West came to an almost complete halt, filling the words "you sing what I have sung from deep within, only conscious of longing" with heartfelt tenderness. This laid the groundwork for the song's triumphant finish, […]
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