Travelling and enjoying opera performances
The decision to revisit Liceu came spontaneously and was triggered by simultaneous discovery of one January weekend without opera trip and opportunity to see acclaimed Willy Decker production I have not seen yet, with very tempting cast – Anna Catarina Antonacci, who impressed me in short and brave Sancta Susanna in Paris, together with Piotr […]
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This has been one of experiences when comign out of performance I feel more confused rather than taken by performance, and it has been quite a while since I got my opinion on this particular performance together. There were quite inflated expectations towards the cast, Charlotte to be sung by Joyce DiDonato, whom I adore, […]
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Starting new year there are a lot of reviews of 2015 and just a few forward looking insights, thus I decided to put together my wishlist (or hopeful list) while absorbed in listening to Jonas Kaufmann singing Puccini at La Scala. Main unknowns yet are Munich Festspiele and Salzburg Festspiele ticket allocations which should come […]
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Werther as the character of most famous suicidal poet is probably known by everyone who have read Goethe’s novel Die Leiden des jungen Werther (The Sorrows of Young Werther) in their youth, for most of us – as part of compulsory program in foreign literature class. Even if many years have passed since graduation, the […]
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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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