Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Friday, January 27th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 27, 2017 ZURICH — It was not the most natural of programs. Beethoven’s familiar C-Major Piano Concerto (1795) prepared nobody for Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà … , or Lightning Over the Beyond … , the 65-minute theological ornithological astronomical would-be symphony Messiaen finished in 1991. Wary of the exotic fare ahead, […]
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Tags: Beethoven, CD, Daniil Trifonov, Éclairs sur l’Au-Delà, Ingo Metzmacher, Kairos, Kent Nagano, Lightning Over the Beyond, Messiaen, Review, Tonhalle-Orchester, Vienna Philharmonic, Zurich
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: January 11, 2017 ZURICH — Christof Loy’s staging of Alcina here, new in 2014 and just revived, imagines a blurred line between a theater troupe’s onstage roles and its members’ backstage passions and asks what it means to break free of illusion — this last substituting for Ariosto’s island magic, happily […]
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Tags: Alcina, Bartoli, Christof Loy, Georg Friedrich Händel, Giovanni Antonini, Julie Fuchs, Opernhaus Zürich, Orchestra La Scintilla, Philippe Jaroussky, Review, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Zurich, Zurich Opera House
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Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: November 30, 2016 MUNICH — As fluent as Valery Gergiev is in Prokofiev, he had precious little to say with a cycle of the symphonies here this month. Fluency meant wise tempos, a feel for the boldness in the scores’ structures, a facility in cuing the two orchestras on duty. It […]
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Tags: Alexandra Conunova, Debussy, Gasteig, Mariinsky Orchestra, Medici TV, München, Münchner Philharmoniker, Munich, Munich Philharmonic, Prokofiev, Review, Valery Gergiev, Vilde Frang, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yu-Chien Tseng
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Friday, August 19th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 19, 2016 BAYREUTH — Clouds over Europe’s festivals this summer are as figurative as they are literal. The trouble is not lower standards or Regietheater, or even money, but has to do with Europe itself and macabre shifts that are gradually threatening the way of life accepted since 1945. Last […]
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Tags: Bayreuth, Bayreuther Festspiele, BR Klassik, Bühnenweihfestspiel, Christian Thielemann, Claudia Mahnke, Deutsche Grammophon, DVD, Elena Pankratova, Georg Zeppenfeld, Gerd Grochowski, Hartmut Haenchen, Iain Paterson, Klaus Florian Vogt, Kritik, Petra Lang, Review, Ryan McKinny, Stephen Gould, Tristan und Isolde, Uwe Eric Laufenberg
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Sunday, August 7th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: August 7, 2016 MUNICH — Two evenings after an “Allahu Akbar” eruption here cost nine mostly teenage, mostly Muslim, lives, it felt perverse to indulge in 280-year-old French escapism stretching to Turkey, Peru, Iran and the future United States. But there we were July 24 in the Prinz-Regenten-Theater for Bavarian State […]
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Tags: Ana Quintans, Anna Prohaska, Balthasar-Neumann-Chor, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Compagnie Eastman, Cyril Auvity, Elsa Benoit, François Lis, Goran Jurić, Ivor Bolton, John Moore, Kritik, Les Indes galantes, Lisette Oropesa, Mathias Vidal, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, Prinz-Regenten-Theater, Rameau, Review, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Tareq Nazmi
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Sunday, July 17th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 17, 2016 MUNICH — When Anja Harteros was singing her first Toscas three seasons ago, it was clear she had the vocal resources for the role, and the Mediterranean temperament. Even so, the portrayal didn’t quite compute. Enter Bryn Terfel, a Scarpia to rattle the aloofest, longest-legged of prima donnas. […]
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Tags: Anja Harteros, Bavarian State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bondy, Giacomo Puccini, Kaufmann, Kirill Petrenko, Kritik, München, Münchner Opernfestspiele, Munich, Munich Opera Festival, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Review, Terfel, Tölzer Knabenchor, Tosca
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Saturday, June 11th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 11, 2016 SEESHAUPT — The men from Lódź, Zagań, Poznań and Warszawa who make up the Meccore Quartet bring phenomenal energy to their work. So goes their reputation, and so it was last Thursday (June 9) here in the Alte Post’s Festsaal on the south shore of Lake Starnberg. Energy, […]
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Tags: Alte Post, Beethoven, Haydn, Jarosław Nadrzycki, Karol Marianowski, Kritik, Lake Starnberg, Meccore Quartet, Michał Bryła, Review, Seeshaupt, Tchaikovsky, Wojciech Koprowski
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 17, 2016 MUNICH — Beckmesser blew his brains out at the end of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg last night here in the Nationaltheater. That was after first aiming his gun at the back of the head of Sachs, and after a graphically brutal beating by David and bat-wielding apprentices had […]
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Tags: Bavarian State Opera, Bavarian State Orchestra, Bayerische Staatsoper, Bayerischer Staatsopernchor, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Benjamin Bruns, Christof Fischesser, David Bösch, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Kaufmann, Kirill Petrenko, Kritik, Markus Eiche, München, Munich, National Theater, Nationaltheater, Review, Sara Jakubiak, Sören Eckhoff, Tareq Nazmi, Wolfgang Koch
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 10, 2016 MUNICH — As if to unify its program of late Beethoven and Schubert last week (May 4) at the Court Church of All Saints, the Arcanto Quartet stressed gloom wherever possible. Playing of intensity and integrity supported this approach, and, to be sure, the Heiliger Dankegesang String Quartet, […]
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Tags: Allerheiligen Hofkirche, Antje Weithaas, Arcanto Quartet, Beethoven, Bell’Arte, Court Church of All Saints, Daniel Sepec, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Maximilian Hornung, München, Munich, Review, Schubert, Tabea Zimmermann
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Friday, March 25th, 2016
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 25, 2016 BOLOGNA — Two years ago all was bleak in music circles here. Orchestra Mozart had folded. Claudio Abbado died. Teatro Comunale lumbered toward a fiscal guillotine mandated by the government. Now, the sun is back, much of it radiating from the reorganized opera house where Nicola Sani holds […]
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Tags: Andrea Faidutti, Attila, Beethoven, Bologna, Carmela Remigio, Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Daniele Abbado, Fabio Sartori, Gezim Myshketa, Giuseppe Gipali, Giuseppe Verdi, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Maria José Siri, Michael Schade, Michele Mariotti, Michele Pertusi, Nicola Sani, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, RAI, Recensione, Review, Riccardo Zanellato, Simone Piazzola, Stefanna Kybalova, Teatro Comunale, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Veronica Simeoni
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