Posts Tagged ‘peter sellars’
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid While Berlin is famous for its three-house opera system, Paris boasts at least as rich a cultural landscape. Last week, Opéra Garnier revived an Andrei Serban production of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri while Cecilia Bartoli starred in another Rossini opera—Otello—at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. At the Opéra Bastille, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde […]
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Tags: Andrei Serban, Bill Viola, Opéra Bastille, Opéra Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, Peter Jordans, peter sellars, Riccardo Frizza
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Friday, February 28th, 2014
By Rebecca Schmid In the final scene of Bach’s St. John Passion, staged by Peter Sellars at the Philharmonie on Feb.27, the members of the Rundfunkchor gather in meditation around a spotlight, the rest of the hall submerged in darkness. The body of Jesus has been quietly removed during a lament of Mary Magdalene, his […]
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Tags: Anna Prohaska, Berlin Philharmonic, Camilla Tilling, Christian Gerhaher, Concentus Musicus, Dido and Aeneas, Dixit Dominus, J.S. Bach, Les Arts Florissants, Magdalena Kožená, Mark Padmore, MusicAeterna, MusicalAmerica.com, Nurial Rial, Perm Opera, peter sellars, Philharmonie, Rebecca Schmid, Roderick Williams, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle, St Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Teodor Currentzis, Thomas Quasthoff, Topi Lehtipuu
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
By Rebecca Schmid Peter Sellars’ semi-staging of St. Matthew Passion for the Rundfunkchor Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonic, officially called a “ritualization” on the cover of the production’s recently-released DVD, may be one of his most daring enterprises to date. Interestingly though, Bach’s Passion already has a history as a subject of both artistic reverence […]
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Tags: Berlin Philharmonic, peter sellars, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Simon Halsey, Sir Simon Rattle
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Friday, February 4th, 2011
By James Jorden It’s not hard to guess why Peter Gelb would choose to import a recreation of the original production of Nixon in China instead of devising a new staging from scratch. It would hardly be prudent to blow a million dollars on a six-performance run of a work unlikely to be revived any […]
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Tags: Chiang Ching, english national opera, franco zeffirelli, houston grand opera, lincoln center, Mark Morris, new york city opera, peter gelb, peter sellars, ping pong diplomacy, puccini, republic of china, revivals, the met
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