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2021-08-17 06:15:00
Juan Diego Flórez sings arias by Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Jules Massenet, Georges Bizet and Giacomo Puccini, with Vincenzo Scalera (HD 1080p)
[…] More photos See also Christmas in Vienna 2008 – Elīna Garanča, Juan Diego Flórez, Genia Kühmeier, Paul Armin Edelmann, Wiener Symphoniker, Karel Mark Chichon &Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni – Waltteri Torikka, Tapani Plathan, Timo Riihonen, Ida Falk Winland, Joska Lehtinen, Anna Danik, Nicholas Söderlund, Malin Christensson – Tapiola Sinfonietta, New Generation Opera Ensemble, Ville Matvejeff, Erik Söderblom (HD 1080p)Richard Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten – Avgust Amonov, Mlada Khudoley, Olga Savova, Edem Umerov, Olga Sergeyeva – Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev – Jonathan Kent, Paul Brown (HD 1080p)Giacomo Puccini: Tosca – Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi – L'Orchestre la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre […]
2019-08-18 08:33:22
Central to Yuval Sharon’s production of Lohengrin is its dramaturgical concept based on Wagner’s critiques on science and technology
[…] - Bayreuth Festival 2019 (Photo Enrico Nawrath) Wagner: LohengrinWednesday 14 August 2019, Bayreuth FestivalConductor: Christian Thielemann (Bayreuth Festival Orchestra)Chorus-master: Eberhard Friedrich (Bayreuth Festival Chorus)Director: Yuval SharonStage design : Neo Rauch Costume design: Rosa Loy Lighting design: Reinhard TraubLohengrin: Piotr BeczałaHeinrich der Vogler (King of Germany): Georg ZeppenfeldElsa von Brabant: Annette DaschFriedrich von Telramund (Count of Brabant): Tomasz KoniecznyOrtrud: Elena PankratovaThe King’s Herald: Egils SilinsFirst Noble: Michael GniffkeSecond Noble: Tansel AkzeybekThird Noble: Marek ReichertFourth Noble: Timo Riihonen Bayreuth Festival (www.bayreuther-festspiele.de) This year is the centenary of Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner's grandson and director of the festival, read Tony's article about the centenary celebration at Bayreuth Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the 2019 Bayreuth Festival - Tony's review Wagner's Tannhäuser at the 2019 Bayreuth Festival - Tony's review Elsewhere on this blog Carry On meets Dads' Army in this ebullient lark: Rossini's Le Comte Ory at the Grimeborn Festival […]
2019-08-15 09:30:00
Bayreuth Festival (3) - Lohengrin, 11 August 2019
Festspielhaus Henry the Fowler – Georg Zeppenfeld Lohengrin – Piotr Beczala Elsa – Camilla Nylund Friedrich von Telramund – Tomasz Konieczny Ortrud – Elena Pankratova King’s Herald – Egils Silins Brabantian Nobles – Michael Gniffke, Tansel Akzeyebek, Marek Reichert, Timo Riihonen Yuval Sharon (director) Neo Rauch, Rosa Loy (designs) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Christian Thielemann (conductor) The origins of this production of Lohengrin, first seen at last year’s Bayreuth Festival, are interesting and unusual. Alvis Hermanis, an avowed ‘conservative, and proud of it’ – for which, as usual nowadays, we should read something considerably more extreme – had been due to direct the new production. Hermanis withdrew in 2016, to little sadness from the rest of the world, yet nevertheless bequeathing the Festival a serious headache. By that time, work on the […]
2019-08-12 21:13:00
Bayreuth Festival (2) - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 10 August 2019
Festspielhaus Hans Sachs – Michael Volle Veit Pogner – Günther Groissböck Kunz Vogelgsang – Tansel Akzeybek Konrad Nachtigall – Armin Kolarczyk Sixtus Beckmesser – Johannes Martin Kränzle Fritz Kothner – Daniel Schmutzhard Balthasar Zorn – Paul Kaufmann Ulrich Eißlinger – Christopher Kaplan Augustin Moser – Stefan Heibach Hermann Ortel – Raimund Nolte Hans Schwarz – Andreas Hörl Hans Foltz – Timo Riihonen Walther von Stolzing – Klaus Florian Vogt David – Daniel Behle Eva – Camilla Nylund Magdalena – Wiebke Lehmkuhl Night Watchman – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Helga Beckmesser (Harpist) – Ruth-Alice Marino Barrie Kosky (director) Rebecca Ringst (set designs) Klaus Bruns (costumes) Franck Evin (lighting) Regine Freise (video) Ulrich Lenz (dramaturgy) Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Philippe Jordan (conductor) As a Wagner scholar, one becomes wearily accustomed to the most arrant nonsense being spoken and written about […]
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