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2023-08-24 06:45:00
The Bayreuth Festival is thrust into a new age, the digital age, by the application of Augmented Reality in a ground-breaking new production of Wagner's Parsifal
[…] you have it!Reviewed by Tony cooperConductor: Pablo Heras-Casado Director: Jay Scheib Stage designer: Mimi Lien Lighting designer: Rainer Casper Costume designer: Meentje Nielsen Video/AR designer: Joshua Higgason Dramaturg: Marlene Schleicher Chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich Amfortas: Derek Welton Titurel: Tobias Kehrer Gurnemanz: Georg Zeppenfeld Parsifal: Andreas Schager Klingsor: Jordan Shanahan Kundry: Ekaterina Gubanova First Knight: Siyabonga Maqungo Second Knight: Jens-Erik Aasbø First Squire: Betsy Horne Second Squire: Margaret Plummer Third Squire: Jorge Rodríguez-Norton Fourth Squire: Garrie Davislim Klingsor’s Zaubermädchen: Julia Grüter, Betsy Horne, Evelin Novak, Margaret Plummer, Marie Henriette Reinhold, Camille Schnoor, Alto solo: Marie Henriette Reinhold Never miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogRevenge is the name of the Dutchman’s game: Dmitri Tcherniakov’s Holländer at the Bayreuth Festival - opera reviewUnbound and Unleashed: Hubert Parry's cantata Prometheus Unbound gets the glorious first recording that it […]
2023-08-16 12:00:00
Bayreuth Festival (2) - Parsifal, 15 August 2023
Festspielhaus Amfortas - Derek Welton Titurel - Tobias Kehrer Gurnemanz - Georg Zeppenfeld Parsifal - Andreas Schager Klingsor - Jordan Shanahan Kundry - Ekaterina Gubanova Knights of the Grail - Siyabonga Maqungo, Jens-Erik Aasbø Squires - Betsy Horne, Margaret Plummer, Jorge Rodriguez-Norton, Garrie Davislim Flowermaidens - Evelin Novak, Camille Schnoor, Margaret Plummer, Julia Grüter, Betsy Horne, Marie Henriette Reinhold Alto solo - Marie Henriette ReinholdJay Scheib (director)Mimi Lien (designs)Meentje Nielsen (costumes)Rainer Casper (lighting)Joshua Higgason (AR and video)Marlene Schleicher (dramaturgy)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus director: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraPablo Heras-Casado (conductor) To move from Dmitri Tcherniakov’s gripping Flying Dutchman to Jay Scheib’s new and much-trumpeted, Artificial Reality-enhanced Parsifal veered towards regression from the sublime to the ridiculous. I should state that I was not one of those with the spectacles necessary to see the ‘enhanced’ version, my short-sightedness being (just) too severe. But since most in the Festspielhaus audience did not have […]
2022-10-17 08:21:00
Review of BBC Philharmonic 'centennial' concert
[…] now. Never mind: the BBC in the North West is celebrating 100 years of paying musicians to perform for it, which is a good thing whether you call that having an orchestra or not. The Philharmonic marked this with a great performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in the Bridgewater Hall, conducted by Eva Ollikainen. It was full-bodied Beethoven, with 60 strings and effectively triple woodwind, and the vocal line-up of Tuuli Takala, Kitty Whately, Steve Davislim and Simon Shibambu, abetted by the CBSO Chorus, made a strong body indeed. Big bodies can still be light on their toes. Ollikainen brought energetic tempi to the first two movements, resulting in playing of incisiveness, vehemence even, and the timps pounded by Paul Turner were emphatically prominent in both. The Adagio was all suavity and songfulness, and the finale eloquent, full of gloriously realized counterpoint and surging and bounding in rhythmic energy to […]
2020-07-27 09:04:02
Towards German romantic opera: Carl Maria von Weber's struggle to create modern German opera
[…] 'unmitigated awfulness' of the libretto, though Weber's music is superb and despite the perceived lack of operatic structure Weber has managed to introduced a remarkable degree of coherence and characterisation in the music. Like Euryanthe, there have been a lot of attempts at tinkering over the years, though the conductor John Eliot Gardiner has stated that he feels that the original works best (he has recorded it with Hillevi Martinpelto, Jonas Kaufmann, Steve Davislim and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique on Philips, though this uses spoken narrations). I saw it given by New Sussex Opera in 2014 [see my review] and Harry Fehr's staging showed that an edited version of Planche's libretto can indeed work. We know that Weber wanted to re-write the opera when he returned to Germany (he never returned, he died of TB in London), creating the sort of opera that he wanted, this […]
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