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2024-01-24 07:29:00
Norfolk-based arts writer, Tony Cooper, enjoys a musical heritage tour to Leipzig, a relaxing and inviting city to visit awash with so much musical history.
[…] the overall stage action while Dirk Becker’s sets were amazingly constructed by found materials from an appeal for local citizens to offer the production their unwanted furnishings. A massive collection of tables of all shapes and sizes turned up thus forming the basis of the main set unevenly perched on a massive revolving stage. ‘We are keen to deliver sensuous and compelling music-theatre and we want to do it in a responsible, climate-friendly way,’ commented Tobias Wolff, Director of Oper Leipzig. ‘Therefore, this production of Mary, Queen of Scots represents a major step forward towards sustainability while offering an experimental challenge for art and trades alike, that’s why as little material as possible has been used in the production. The idea of a climate-neutral production, supported, may I add, by Fonds Zero of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, was, in fact, inspired by operas produced by Icelandic Opera.’ A strong and dutiful […]
2023-12-12 12:45:00
Mayer/Berliner Barock Solisten/Goltz - JCF Bach, CPE Bach, JS Bach, and Johann Christoph Bach, 11 December 2023
[…] his instrument’s repertoire. From the outset, contrasts and mood-swings made the composer’s identity clear, though a rare instance of tentative string entry might have had me wonder. Mayer clearly relished the language and the twists and turns of this first movement, as did the ensemble, the physicality of whose playing had one feel in the best sense bows and rosin flying from their bows. This went ‘down’ all the way to the violone/double bass, Ulrich Wolff’s playing as nimble and expressive as that of anyone else. Another aria-like second movement followed, Mayer splendidly long-breathed, strings varying vibrato for expressive rather than dogmatic reasons. I found the harpsichord registration (a lute stop, I think) distracting, even irritating, but could see others in the audience responding more positively. Dramatic string interjections prior to the cadenza would surely have impressed Gluck. Likewise, in the finale, gestures told, whilst always forming part of a […]
2023-05-21 17:27:00
Coming Attractions: Die Frau ohne Schatten
Die Frau ohne SchattenDavid Hockney production, presumably Act IIIPhoto: Robert Millard, courtesy of San Francisco OperaIf you're reading this blog, it's very, very likely that you know that as part of its centennial season, San Francisco Opera is presenting, for the first time in more than 30 years, Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Die Frau ohne Schatten. Frau is a monster and a monument, with a gigantic orchestra and a libretto that is, well, complicated and full of contentious issues.A few weeks ago, Larry Wolff gave a presentation about Frau to the Wagner Society of Northern California about Frau. Wolff is a professor of history at NYU, and his speciality, as far as I can tell from his bio and the books he's written, is central European history from the 18th century to the early 20th century. His is also an opera lover, from an early enough age that his first opera was […]
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