Travelling and enjoying opera performances
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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