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2024-03-06 12:30:00
Hercules, Komische Oper, 3 March 2024
Hercules – Brandon Cedel Dejanira – Paula Murrihy Iole – Penny Sofroniadou Hyllus – Caspar Singh Lichas – Susan Zarrabi Priest of Jupiter – Noam Heinz Choral soloists – Martin Fehr, Taiki MiyashitaDirector – Barrie KoskyDesigns – Katrin Lea TagDramaturgy – Zsolt Horpácsy, Johanna WallLighting – Joachim KleinAssistant director – Tobias RibitzkiChoral Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: David Cavelius) Orchestra of the Komische OperDavid Bates (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausDejanira (Paula Murrihy), Lichas (Susan Zarrabi) Handel’s ‘musical drama’ – an interesting term, though we can sometimes make too much of such things – Hercules has never proved especially popular. The composer’s public at the time and for a long while after tended to prefer his Biblical oratorios. Since the revival and, latterly, the craze for his Italian opere serie, they have ruled the roost. Semele, another ‘musical drama’, ‘after the manner of an oratorio’, has fared better since its modern stage revival […]
2024-02-04 11:53:00
The Golden Cockerel, Komische Oper, 3 February 2024
SchillertheaterKing Dodon – Alexander Roslavets Prince Guidon – Pavel Valuzhin Prince Aphron – Hubert Zapiór General Polkan – Alexander Vassiliev Amelfa – Margarita Nekrasova Golden Cockerel – Julia Muzychenko, Daniel Daniela Ojeda Yrureta Queen of Shemakha – Kseniia Proshina Astrologer – James Kryshak First Boyar – Taiki Miyashita Second Boyar – Jan-Frank Süße Dancers – Michael Fernandez, Lorenzo Soragni, Silvano Marraffa, Kai Chun ChungDirector – Barrie KoskyAssistant director – Denni SayersSet design – Rufus DidwiszusCostumes – Victoria BehrChoreography – Otto PichlerDramaturgy – Olaf A. Schmitt, Meike LieserLighting – Franck Evin Orchestra and Chorus of the Komische Oper (chorus director: David Cavelius)James Gaffigan (conductor)Images: Monika Rittershaus Two productions, very different, of Rimsky-Korsakov’s last opera, The Golden Cockerel, within two years: James Conway for English Touring Opera, which I saw in Hackney, and now Barrie Kosky’s new production for Berlin’s Komische Oper in its temporary home in Charlottenburg. Both are experienced, though neither was […]
2024-01-30 15:13:24
Barrie Kosky’s staging of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera is bleakly nihilistic, but the audience loved it
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.
[…] of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, was, in fact, inspired by operas produced by Icelandic Opera.’ A strong and dutiful cast was gallantly led by Chicago-born soprano, Nicole Chevalier, whose first appearance on stage came by a trapdoor dressed as Backpacker with her four ‘ladies-in-waiting’ identically dressed. Get the picture? Harbouring a dramatically, rich-sounding authoritative voice with a stage presence to match, Chevalier, who made her début at the Salzburg Festival in 2019, was a member of Komische Oper Berlin from 2012 to 2017 where I witnessed her in action for the first time delivering a resolute and driving performance of Cunegonde in Bernstein’s Candide. Other notable roles at Komische include the title-role in Handel’s Semele, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte) and Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream). The Bavarian-born baritone, Franz Xaver Schlecht, delivered a rich-textured performance of James Stewart, Earl of Moray with Icelandic tenor, Sven Hjörleifsson as James […]
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