Posts Tagged ‘Nadia Krasteva’
Friday, June 16th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 16, 2017 MUNICH — An odd thing happened during the curtain calls last evening after a taut, riveting Rusalka here at Bavarian State Opera. The orchestra players made various signs of approval for the cast members’ work, as is customary, and then essentially none for the conductor (and leading lady’s […]
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Tags: Alyona Abramova, Andris Nelsons, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dmytro Popov, Evgeniya Sotnikova, Günther Groissböck, Helena Zubanovich, Kristine Opolais, Kušej, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, News, Rachael Wilson, Tara Erraught, Tomáš Hanus, Ulrich Reß
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Friday, December 27th, 2013
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 27, 2013 MUNICH — Martin Kušej’s new staging of La forza del destino for Bavarian State Opera opened Dec. 22 and is due for streaming tomorrow. Well cast, it alas trivializes the feud and the questions of honor and destiny that excited Verdi and his librettist Piave, despite being the […]
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Friday, December 21st, 2012
By ANDREW POWELL Published: December 21, 2012 MUNICH — They all laughed eight years ago when Bavarian State Opera set Verdi’s Rigoletto on the Planet of the Apes, and the production fast vanished. Naturally, then, the return of the deformed ducal jester in a new régie last Saturday (Dec. 15) promised relative normalcy, perhaps even […]
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Tags: Árpád Schilling, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Dimitry Ivashchenko, Franco Vassallo, Giuseppe Verdi, Joseph Calleja, Kritik, Marco Armiliato, München, Munich, Nadia Krasteva, Patricia Petibon, Review, Rigoletto
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