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Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] new cycle conducted by Alain Altinoglu and directed by Romeo Castellucci. Das Rheingold arrived last year, Die Walküre was seen earlier this year and Siegfried comes to the stage in September followed by Götterdämmerung in January 2025. The end of the Gods and, indeed, the end of Intendant, Peter de Caluwe, who quietly fades into a well-earned retirement after batting a superb innings knocking up 18 years. His replacement, 58-year-old Christina Scheppelmann, arrives from Seattle Opera early in 2026. Time flies! However, Tcherniakov's Ring is far from retiring with the action taking place in the clinical and regimented confines of a research institute named ESCHE (Experimental Scientific Centre for Human Evolution), appropriately forming an acronym of the German word for 'ash-tree' in which Wotan, of course, broke a holy bough to fashion his spear. An eye for detail, too, Tcherniakov also conjured up a grand and magnificent set […]
2023-01-17 22:35:00
Seattle Opera announced its 2023-24 season the other day, and it looks like a retrenchment of some kind: there are only four operas, plus a holiday chorus concert and a concert celebrating the company's 60th anniversary.Wagner, Das Rheingold, Minnesota Opera production directed by Brian Staufenbiel, conducted by Ludovic Morlot. August 12-20, 2023. This is not the start of a new Ring, alas.Handel, Alcina. October 14-28, 2024.Holiday Chorus Concert, December 8-10, 2023.Davis, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X. February 24-March 9, 2024.Rossini, The Barber of Seville, May 4-19, 2024.60th Anniversary Concert, May 11, 2024.
2022-11-17 22:35:00
[…] 2023 he will make his Spoleto Festival USA debut as Anatol in Vanessa. As a 2021 participant in the Merola Opera Program, he was featured in a recital entitled What the Heart Desires and a filmed project entitled Back Home: Through the Stage Door. Graves has previously appeared at Michigan Opera Theatre as a Studio Artist in the 2019–20 season where he made his company and role debuts as Rinuccio in a double bill of Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Michael Ching's Buoso's Ghost. He made his Seattle Opera debut in 2018 as Robbins in Porgy and Bess and appeared at The Glimmerglass Festival as a Young Artist in 2019 as Policeman 2 in the world premiere of Blue and 2017 as Peter in Porgy and Bess and Fred in Oklahoma! In the 2017–18 season, Graves was a Baumgartner Studio Artist at Florentine Opera where he performed roles in The Merry Widow, John Blow’s Venus and Adonis/Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and The Magic Flute. Graves is a 2022 San Francisco District winner of the Eric and Dominique […]
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