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German minstrel singer (c. 1170 – c. 1230)
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2023-08-25 08:13:00
[…] role was sung by Bayreuth favourite, Stephen Gould, who put in a good erstwhile performance) while Venus was energetically and youthfully sung by Ekaterina Gubanova who proved her worth every inch of the way. The solid bass voice of Günther Groissböck illuminated the role of Hermann, Elisabeth’s uncle, Landgraf of Thuringia, while the coterie of knights and Minnesingers, who added so much to the overall success and pleasure of the production comprised Siyabonga Maqungo (Walther von der Vogelweide), Jorge Rodríguez-Norton (Heinrich der Schreiber), Jens-Erik Aasbø (Reinmar von Zweter) and Olafur Sigurdarson (Biterolf). Singing the central role of Elisabeth, Norwegian soprano, Elisabeth Teige (originally sung by Norwegian soprano, Lise Davidsen, while making her Bayreuth début) reached out to an audience who absolutely adored her. She lit up the stage! Her crystal-clear and well-controlled voice radiated round the spacious Graeco-Roman-designed Festspielhaus with consummate ease particularly in that wonderful aria in Act II ‘Dich, teure […]
2023-08-17 11:40:00
Bayreuth Festival (3) - Tannhäuser, 16 August 2023
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 16.8.2023 (MB) Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia - Günter Groissböck Tannhäuser - Klaus Florian Vogt Wolfram von Eschenbach - Markus Eiche Walther von der Vogelweide - Siyabonga Maqungo Biterolf - Olafur Sigurdarson Heinrich der Schreiber - Jorge Rodriguez-Norton Reinmar von Zweter - Jens-Erik Aasbø Elisabeth - Elisabeth Teige Venus - Ekaterina Gubanova Young Shepherd - Julia Grüter Le Gateau Chocolat - Le Gateau Chocolat Oskar - Manni Laudenbach Pages - Cornelia Heil, Ekaterina Gubanova, Laura Margaret Smith, Karolin ZeinertTobias Kratzer (director)Rainer Sellmaier (designs)Manuel Braun (video)Reinhard Traub (lighting)Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus director: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraNathalie Stutzmann (conductor) For my third and final Bayreuth performance this year, I revisited an old friend, Tobias Kratzer’s Tannhäuser. New when we met in 2019, it has weathered the pandemic storm and since assumed something close to classic status. Not that, like any of us during that or indeed any other four-year […]
2021-03-08 08:39:20
The undeservedly neglected lieder of Josephine Lang are at the centre of this lovely recital from Scottish-German mezzo-soprano Catriona Morison
[…] co-production with BBC Radio 3. The recital opens with Grieg's Sechs Lieder, Opus 48; written in the late 1880s, they are the first songs that Grieg set in German since his Opus 2 and Opus 4 were published in the mid 1860s. The Opus 48 songs set quite a variety of poets, Heinrich Heine, a translation by Emanuel Geibel of a 16th century poem by Cristobal de Castillejo, Johann Ludwig Uhland, Walter von der Vogelweide, Goethe and Friedrich Martin von der Bodenstedt. 'Gruss' starts things off in a delightfully bright manner, and both Morison and Martineau have a spring in their step. 'Dereinst, Gedanke mein' (from the Spanisches Liederbuch and set also by Schumann and by Wolf) is more inward and thoughtful. 'Lauf der Welt' has an engaging charm about it whilst the piano rhythms could not but be by Grieg. This is also true of 'Die verschiegene […]
2020-04-29 10:53:16
From song texts to silver roses, pit your wits against our opera critic with these 12 questions about vocal music on stage and off The great Beethoven quiz: do you know your Eroica from your elbow? Henri Duparc's L'Invitation au Voyage is a setting of which poet? Charles Baudelaire François Coppée Stéphane Mallarmé Paul Verlaine How many women did Don Giovanni seduce in Turkey? 640 231 91 1003 Which historical figure, depicted in Tannhäuser, was the author of the poem that Wagner eventually took as the source for Parsifal? Heinrich der Schreiber Reinmar von Zweter Walther von der Vogelweide Wolfram von Eschenbach In 2016, New York’s Metropolitan Opera staged Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin. When was the last time an opera by a woman was produced on the New York stage? 2003, Olga Neuwirth's Lost Highway 1903, Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald Never – […]
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