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2023-07-17 08:03:00
Médée, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 16 July 2023
Médée – Sonya Yoncheva Jason – Charles Castronovo Créon – Peter Schöne Dircé – Slavá Zámečníková Néris – Marina Prudenskaya Dircé’s Handmaidens – Regina Koncz, Maria Hegele Children of Jason and Médée – Fritz Bachmann, Nathan Kamsu Andrea Breth (director)Martin Zehetgruber (set designs)Carla Teti (costumes)Olaf Freese (lighting)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright)Staatskapelle BerlinOksana Lyniv (conductor)Images: Bernd Uhlig Cherubini’s best-known and surely greatest opera, Médée, continues to hover on the edge of the repertory. It had a high-profile outing in Salzburg in 2019, about which production if not performance the less said the better. The previous year, Andrea Breth’s staging came to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. I missed it then, but caught (just) its first revival in February 2020, shortly before theatres closed for longer than any of us ever imagined. Now it receives its second revival and will feature next season too. I caught it just in time, making not […]
2023-01-29 01:04:00
San Francisco Opera 2023-24
[…] Alden production previously seen twice at Covent Garden; not the production used in 2009. My friend Mark Berry reviewed it at CG and liked it better the second time under the revival director, who is also directing this revival.Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, libretto by Rhiannon Giddens, Omar. John Kennedy/Jamez McCorkle (Omar), Taylor Raven (Fatima), Brittany Rene (Julie), Norman Garrett (Abdul and Abe), Daniel Okulitsch (Johnson and Owen), Barry Banks (Auctioneer and Taylor). SFO co-commission. Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore. Ramon Tebar/Pene Pati (Nemorino), Slávka Zámečníková (Adina), David Bižić (Belcore), Renato Girolami (Dulcamara). Production new to SFO, by Daniel Slater. Summer 2024: Mozart, Die Zauberflote. Kim/Amitai Pati (Tamino), Christina Gansch (Pamina), Lauri Vasar (Papageno), Kwangchul Youn (Sarastro), Anna Simińska (Queen of the Night), Zhengyi Bai (Monastatos). No Papagena announced. Production new to SF, by Barrie Kosky, set in the 1920s and using a lot of animation. It's been done in LA and Chicago and is popular. Kaija Saariaho, Innocence. Clément Mao-Takacs/Ruxandra Donose, Claire de Sevigne, Rod GIlfry, Miles Mykkanen, Kristinn […]
2022-08-16 15:35:56
The finale of Liechtenstein's Vaduz Classic festival will see the premiere of a lost work attributed to Mozart. Titled Cantata for Prince Alois I of Liechtenstein (KV Anh. 242), the piece will be performed by the Liechtenstein Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonia Choir, with Slávka Zámecníková (soprano) and Mario Zeffiri (tenor) featured as […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2022-04-23 14:26:00
Berlin Festtage (5) – Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Don Giovanni, 17 April 2022
Don Giovanni – Michael Volle Donna Anna – Slávka Zámečníková Don Ottavio – Bogdan Volkov Commendatore – Peter Rose Donna Elvira – Elsa Dreisig Leporello – Riccardo Fassi Masetto – David Oštrek Zerlina – Serena Sáenz Vincent Huguet (director)Aurélie Maestre (set designs)Clémence Pernoud (costumes)Irene Selka (lighting)Robert Pflanz (video)Louis Geisler (dramaturgy)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus master: Martin Wright)Staatskapelle BerlinThomas Guggeis (conductor)Don Giovanni (Michael Volle), Commendatore (Peter Rose), Leporello (Riccardo Fassi)Images: Matthias Baus Don Giovanni was the first opera Daniel Barenboim conducted: at the 1973 Edinburgh Festival. Nearly fifty years on, this new production was eagerly awaited, if more for Barenboim than for director Vincent Huguet, whose previous contributions towards this Berlin Da Ponte ‘trilogy’ (see hereand here) have generally been considered disappointing at best. Alas, Barenboim, whose incendiary conducting of Peter Mussbach’s production here on Unter den Linden in 2007 remains one of my Mozart operatic highlights, had to withdraw, replaced by Staatskapellmeister Thomas […]
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