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2021-12-16 07:34:06
Wagner's Die Walküre to receive its Icelandic premiere in Icelandic Opera's first Wagner opera for 20 years
Julia Burbach's production of Wagner's Die Walküre in Bordeaux - Evgeny Nikitin (Wotan) - Opéra National de Bordeaux (Photo Eric Bouloumie) Julia Burbach first directed Wagner's Die Walküre at the Opéra National de Bordeaux in 2019 in a co-production with Icelandic Opera. The production's Icelandic debut in 2020 had to be postponed and will finally be presented at Harpa in Reykjavik in February 2022. In the meantime, of course, Burbach has directed a new production Wagner's Die Walküre in Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick's reduced version at the Grimeborn Festival [see my review, and see also my interview with Julia] February's performances at Harpa will be the Icelandic premiere of Die Walküre and Icelandic Opera's first Wagner opera since Der fliegende Holländer in 2002. One significant difference between Icelandic Opera's performances and the production in Bordeaux is that, owing to the relatively small size of the pit in Harpa, the players of the Icelandic Symphony […]
2020-02-07 06:00:47
As an interlude to my coverage of the 2020 Dark Music Days, I have to say something about two artworks that weren’t part of the festival but which contributed significantly to my time in Reykjavík. First is CAT 192, the product of a collaboration in 2013 by composer Hlynur Aðils Vilmarsson and conductor Ilan Volkov. It’s not so much music as a piece of performance art for the main hall, Eldborg, within the city’s principal concert venue Harpa. The work … The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: ici
2020-02-06 07:33:38
The Iceland Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 70th birthday with its first UK tour
The Iceland Symphony Orchestra photographed at Harpa in Reykjavik The Iceland Symphony Orchestra (Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands) is celebrating its 70th year and as part of the celebrations is giving its first UK tour, with music director Yan Pascal Tortelier, starting at the Royal Concert Hall in Norwich (8 February 2020) and then Cadogan Hall, London (10 February), Symphony Hall, Birmingham (11 February), St David’s Hall, Cardiff (13 February), The Anvil, Basingstoke (14 February), Leeds Town Hall (15 February) and the Usher Hall, Edinburgh (16 February).The programme includes Aeriality by the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, who is the orchestra's composer in residence. Aeriality was written for the orchestra and premiered by them in 2011. Thorvaldsdóttir will be giving pre-concert talks about the work in Nottingham, Norwich, Birmingham, Cardiff and Basingstoke, The rest of the orchestra's programme for the tour includes Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Yeol […]
2019-02-09 15:11:56
The final day of Iceland’s 2019 Dark Music Days festival was characterised by a back-and-forth between prosaic and profound. The penultimate concert i attended, titled ‘Sound Mass’, was an extreme case in point. Once again located in Harpa’s Kaldalón Hall, of the three works performed it was hard to do much more than shrug at Þórólfur Eiríksson‘s short electronic work Rafboð [electrical signals]. Though technically a brand new piece, receiving its first performance, it could have been composed half a century … The post appeared first on 5:4. 5:4 is on Patreon! Please consider supporting the blog by becoming a Patron from just $2 a month: ici
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