Travelling and enjoying opera performances
Sondra Radvanovsky has decided to undertake the challenge of olympic heights by creating complete story of Tudor queens in one season at The Met. The comparison of athletic challenge is so appropriate when you think about all the components and time and effort investment required to get prepared for such project: vocal technique and stamina, and psychological […]
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The cast: Otello: Aleksandrs Antoņenko Desdemona: Sonya Yoncheva Iago: Željko Lučić Cassio: Dimitri Pittas Lodovico: Günther Groissböck Roderigo: Chad Shelton Montano: Jeff Mattsey Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Seguin Production: Bartlett Sher Set designer: Es Devlin Costume designer: Catherine Zuber Lighting designer: Donald Holder Projection designer: Luke Halls The 328th Metropolitan Opera performance That was an evening filled […]
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It has been already quite a time since I enjoyed fantastic performances at Bayerisches Opernfestspiele or Munich Opera Festival. For me it is second year in a row when I carefully plan extended weekend with great hope to get all wished- for tickets from the Bayerisches Staatsoper box office in line with priorities defined in some 8 […]
Read More…VIENNA PHILHARMONIC • RICCARDO MUTI PROGRAMME PYOTR I. TCHAIKOVSKY • Concert for Violin and Orchestra in D, Op. 35 JOHANNES BRAHMS • Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 The concert was unique as it was the most obvious proof what extraordinary conductor can achieve with first class orchestra, the sound was full, lush, nuanced! […]
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GIUSEPPE VERDI • IL TROVATORE, Salzburg Festspiele, Aug 14, 2015 This was the best performance seen this season in Salzburg, great comparison of impressions after seeing production live with perceptions from recorded/ streamed performances. The cast was well balanced and complementing each other, Anna Netrebko run the performance, while both Meli and Rucinski were believable […]
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WOLFGANG A. MOZART • LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Aug 15th, 2015 Opera buffa in four acts K. 492 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Text by Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749–1838) after Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais’s play La Folle Journée, ou Le Mariage de Figaro (1778) CREATIVE TEAM Dan Ettinger, Conductor Sven-Eric Bechtolf, Director Alex Eales, […]
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Drame lyrique in four acts by Jules Massenet (1842–1912) Libretto by Édouard Blau (1836–1906), Paul Milliet (1855–1924) and Georges Hartmann (1843–1900) after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther (1774) Concert performance CREATIVE TEAM Alejo Pérez, Conductor Wolfgang Götz, Chorus Master CAST Piotr Beczala, Werther Angela Gheorghiu, Charlotte Daniel Schmutzhard, Albert Elena Tsallagova, Sophie Giorgio Surian, Le Bailli […]
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CREATIVE TEAM Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Sets and Costumes Ronny Dietrich, Dramaturgy Olaf Freese, Lighting Torsten Ottersberg, Sound Design Andi A. Müller, Video Design Ernst Raffelsberger, Chorus Master CAST Jonas Kaufmann, Florestan Adrianne Pieczonka, Leonore Sebastian Holecek, Don Fernando Tomasz Konieczny, Don Pizarro Hans-Peter König, Rocco Olga Bezsmertna, Marzelline Norbert Ernst, […]
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Winter operatic treat in Berlin was crowned by Macbeth at Staatsoper Berlin with starry cast: Daniel Barenboim, Conductor and Staatskapelle Berlin Peter Mussbach, Director Andrea Schmidt-Futterer, Costume Designer Erich Wonder, Set Designer Liudmyla Monastyrska, Lady Macbeth Rolando Villazon, Macduff Florian Hoffmann, Malcolm Plácido Domingo, Macbeth René Pape, Banquo Short coffee break before the performance, […]
Read More…Šī gada Minhenes operas festivāls lutina opermīļus ar lieliskām izrādēm un izpildītājiem, Tāpat kā pagājušajā gadā esmu izvēlējusies festivāla noslēgumu, tam šogad izvēlēta Džakomo Pučīni “Manona Lesko” ar superzvaigznes Jonasa Kaufmana un Kristīnes Opolais līdzdalību. Redzēju šo izrādi jau decembrī, bet tā atstāja tik dziļu iespaidu, ka labprāt to redzētu vēl un vēlreiz, izbaudot nianses […]
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