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War Memorial Opera House and Veterans BuildingVan Ness Ave., SFHand-colored photo-postcard from the author's collectionThe fourth session of Streaming the First Century was posted earlier today on SF Opera's web site. The new performance items are:Salome (1974) by Richard Strauss. Austrian diva Leonie Rysanek is Salome in one of the most entrancing performances of her long, distinguished career. This preserved San Francisco Opera broadcast, conducted by Otmar Suitner, also features legendary Wagnerian soprano Astrid Varnay as Herodias. Writer Paul Thomason introduces this audio memento, recalling Rysanek’s unique onstage presence and her special connection with audiences in San Francisco. Die tote Stadt (2008) by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The heart and soul of Korngold’s resplendent score come to life in this 2008 performance featuring Torsten Kerl, Emily Magee and Lucas Meachem under the assured leadership of then Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles. Writer Larry Rothe introduces this compelling work, which after decades of neglect, is being rediscovered by music […]
2022-05-24 20:38:28
Anglais - Wozzeck at the Liceu: The Dark Beauty of Horror
[…] only has a Wozzeck voice, he is Wozzeck, innocent, brutal, elementary and wise. The lost gaze of the character whilst journeying without return into alienation is one of those that isn’t easily forgotten. Next to him, Annemarie Kremer managed to skilfully incorporate all the angles – affectionate, bitter, seductive, panicked – of Marie’s complex character. Her performance was totally satisfactory. Mikeldi Atxalandabaso did a memorable Captain and Peter Rose a sufficient Doctor. Torsten Kerl in the role of Drum Major, Peter Tantsits as Andres, Rinat Shaham as Margret and Beñat Egiarte in the role of the mad man didn’t disappoint either. The choir also did well in its small intervention. Wozzeck is primarily a team opera, rather than a stars’ show, and in this case the whole team worked well together to sign a performance which will without a doubt become one of the landmarks of the […]
2020-08-31 10:01:17
A Life On-Line: First night of Proms, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, Samson and Delila in Flanders
[…] scale. Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story are not easy, yet the orchestra threw them off with bravura elan, and followed them with a group of Latin American pieces where their sense of rhythm, and pride in their native composers could thrive. [BBC iPlayer] Over at Opera Vlaanderen we caught with their 2009 performance of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, directed by Amir Nizar Zuabi & Omri Nitzan, conducted by Tomáš Netopil, with Torsten Kerl and Marianna Tarasova in the title roles. Nitzan and Nizar Zuabi are an intriguing duo, one an Israeli Jew, the other Palestinian, and they brought this contemporary focus to Saint-Saens' opera. Samson became a freedom fighter, something that a number of other companies have done, but here the directors had flipped our perceptions. The downtrodden Biblical Israelites were portrayed as the modern Palestinians whilst the Philistines were modern Israelis. As a concept it […]
2020-04-13 09:20:51
The merest smell is sufficient to turn my stomach: the complex relationship between Richard Wagner and Giacomo Meyerbeer
[…] half-an-hour."Whilst Rienzi was Wagner's biggest operatic success during his lifetime, he excluded it from the canon of works to be performed at the Bayreuth Festival Theatre, and during the 2013 Wagner Centenary it was performed at the festival for the first time, but not in the festival theatre. Nowadays, Rienzi still receives occasional revivals and you can read about the 2019 revival of Philipp Stölzl's production at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin on Bachtrack, with Torsten Kerl in the title role, conducted by Evan Rogister (and see image below). Königliches Hoftheater, Dresden in 1850 Within months of the premiere of Rienzi, Richard was appointed court conductor in Dresden. His niece Johanna (Albert's adopted daughter) was developing as a mezzo-soprano and Meyerbeer promised further support for training for her. She created the role of Elisabeth in Tannhäuser which premiered in Dresden in 1845. She studied with Manuel Garcia in Paris, learning […]
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