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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.
[…] opera production staged by Oper Leipzig, Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots, set to a complex scenario surrounding a journey into the world of intrigue, scandal and power revolving round the young regent, Mary Stuart. Written for Scottish Opera, Mary, Queen of Scots received its première at the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, in 1977 as part of the Edinburgh Festival directed by Colin Graham and conducted by the composer. A single performance was staged in Germany at Staatsoper Stuttgart in 1980 therefore it was pleasing to see the work in the current season of Leipzig Opera thereby offering a host of performances. In fact, the opera was the first of four focusing on historical figures composed by revered Scottish composer, Thea Musgrave, now in her 95th year. The others are Harriet, the Woman Called Moses (1985), Simón Bolívar (1995) and Pontalba (2003). Musgrave’s starting-point - the first in which she wrote her own libretto, […]
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2023-05-22 09:48:56
Opera house is gifted 300 hoodies for St Francis
Staatsoper Stuttgart is putting on a new production... The post Opera house is gifted 300 hoodies for St Francis appeared first on Slippedisc.
2021-05-14 16:07:07
Boris Godunov
Adam Palka stars in this production recorded at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
2020-12-05 10:15:21
Making music in complex times: conductor Cornelius Meister on his recent concerts in Scotland, his work with the opera in Stuttgart and national differences in performing styles
[…] Cornelius' responsibilities in Stuttgart cover not just the opera but the orchestra too. With the orchestra, he has already given cycles of symphonies by Schumann and by Beethoven, he and the orchestra are in the middle of a cycle of Mahler symphonies and a cycle of symphonies by Brahms is planned for this season. It seems that he is fond of symphonic cycles! Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde staged at the Staatsoper Stuttgart this Summer He points out that when he was younger, he had to learn the music like that, in cycles. But there is also his desire to bring out, for the audience, the links between the works so that with Mahler you can pick out so many combinations of influences between the different symphonies, the audience can make links from the first to the last. And this Summer, because of changes and […]
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