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2023-07-19 10:41:00
Munich Opera Festival (1) - Così fan tutte, 17 July 2023
Nationaltheater Fiordiligi – Louise Alder Dorabella – Avery Amereau Guglielmo/Gulielmo – Konstantin Krimmel Ferrando – Sebastian Kohlhepp/Jonas Hacker Despina – Sandrine Piau Don Alfonso – Johannes Martin Kränzle Benedict Andrews (director) Magda Willi (set designs) Victoria Behr (costumes) Mark Van Denesse (lighting) Katja Leclerc (dramaturgy) Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Kamila Akhmedjanova) Bavarian State Orchestra Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) Images: ©Wilfried HöslDon Alfonso (Johannes Martin Kränzle), Despina (Sandrine Piau) It is refreshing to find a Così fan tutte that takes the very greatest of Mozart and Da Ponte’s three masterpieces (for the most part) seriously. The amount of nonsense I have seen and heard said of it at least matches that for Don Giovanni. That the nonsense may be genuinely ‘felt’ is neither here nor there, we are not supposed to say that; uninformed misunderstanding is just that, whether it concern an artwork, politics, or particle physics. Benedict Andrews’s production […]
2021-03-28 11:00:31
Spring weekend of song in Leeds
[…] words, singing in an almost intimate manner addressing us personally. She was finely supported by Joseph Middleton who from the first notes of 'Asie' brought out the lovely rich textures of the piano part so we hardly missed the orchestra. 'Asie' was very impulsive, sometime intimate, sometimes dramatic and sometimes luxuriating in floated soprano tones, always with the feeling of the importance of that text (the poems are by Tristan Klingsor, a pseudoym of Leon Leclerc, from a set inspired by Rimsky Korsakov's orchestral work). 'La flûte enchantée' was wonderfully exotic feeling with rich textures and fluid words. Then 'L'indifferent' ended the cycle with a further sense of exotic drama. By complete contrast, next came a group of Brahms' songs. Verzagen was wonderfully stormy, yet with lovely line, warm tone and fine words creating something touching. There was a folk-ish simplicity of Schwesterlein but also some great characterisation and […]
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2019-10-01 12:06:02
In Paris, A New Musée De La Libération Commemorates The Nazi Occupation Of The City And Its Emancipation
The museum’s collection of archival film and photos, maps, letters, posters, and pamphlets focuses on two heroes of de Gaulle’s Free French movement: the former préfet Jean Moulin and General Philippe Leclerc. – Apollo
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