Posts Tagged ‘Review’
Saturday, July 29th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 29, 2017 PASSAU — What more heavenly way to mark your 90th birthday than conducting a favorite symphony in four cathedrals on four successive nights, and with an orchestra that adores you? This, at least, was Herbert Blomstedt’s thinking, amenably realized by the Bamberger Symphoniker — in Bamberg’s Dom St […]
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Tags: Anton Bruckner, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Carlo Lurago, Carpoforo Tencalla, Dom St Stephan, Europäische Wochen, European Weeks, Giovanni Battista Carlone, Herbert Blomstedt, Kritik, Passau, Review, Stiftsbasilika St Florian
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: July 4, 2017 OBERAMMERGAU — Amplification makes it possible; amplification limits the achievement. That is the dilemma for opera in this neat Bavarian town’s Passionstheater (1930), built to service a post-plague pledge made 384 years ago. Raked seating in the barn-like house confronts a fixed templar structure on a stage open […]
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Tags: Ainars Rubikis, Chor des Passionstheaters Oberammergau, Christian Stückl, David Danholt, Denzil Delaere, Der fliegende Holländer, Gábor Bretz, Guido Jentjens, Kritik, Liene Kinča, Neue Philharmonie München, Oberammergau, Review
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Saturday, June 3rd, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: June 3, 2017 SALZBURG — When artistic control of the Whitsun Festival here moved to Cecilia Bartoli nearly six years ago, its programming changed from a steady focus on one period and place (18th-century Napoli) to shifting annual themes. First there was “Cleopatra.” Next came the idea of “sacrifice.” Then the […]
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Tags: Antonio Pappano, Ariodante, Bartoli, Christof Loy, Christophe Dumaux, Georg Friedrich Händel, Gianluca Capuano, Großes Festspielhaus, Haus für Mozart, Kathryn Lewek, Les Musiciens du Prince, Mendelssohn, Nathan Berg, Norman Reinhardt, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Review, Salzburg, Salzburger Bachchor, Sandrine Piau, Tatiana Serjan, Terfel, Whitsun Festival
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Friday, May 19th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: May 19, 2017 RAVENNA — Sometimes a musician just needs a good partner. Cellist Alban Gerhardt and pianist Steven Osborne work magically together but have a habit of starting their recitals apart, as if to establish credentials. So it was April 11 here at the Teatro Alighieri, home of the Ravenna […]
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Tags: Alban Gerhardt, Associazione Musicale Angelo Mariani, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Cassadó y Moreu, Debussy, Ravenna, Ravenna Musica, Recensione, Review, Steven Osborne, Teatro Alighieri
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Sunday, April 30th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 30, 2017 FERRARA — Lanky Teodor Currentzis looms over his MusicAeterna players the way Basil Fawlty loomed over Manuel, and with comparable gestures. It is anyone’s guess how their 13-year relationship has survived, what with labor conditions in Russia, the quirks of period-instrument practice, their joint move from Novosibirsk (in […]
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Tags: Alexander Melnikov, Associazione Ferrara Musica, Beethoven, Ferrara, MusicAeterna, News, Perm, Recensione, Review, Südwest-Rundfunk, SWR, SWR Symphonie-Orchester, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Teodor Currentzis, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 25, 2017 BOLOGNA — Teatro Comunale’s busy direttore musicale Michele Mariotti, 38, ventured his 33rd and 34th operas* this month with a foray in verismo, the terse tribulations of Cavalleria rusticana, and, incongruously, La voix humaine, a vehicle for the Bologna-schooled soprano, former mezzo, Anna Caterina Antonacci. He chose big […]
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Tags: Andrea Faidutti, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Bologna, Carmen Topciu, Cocteau, Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Emma Dante, Gezim Myshketa, La voix humaine, Marco Berti, Mascagni, Michele Mariotti, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Poulenc, Recensione, Review, Teatro Comunale
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: April 24, 2017 MUNICH — It was a short courtship by recent standards. Dalmatian conductor Ivan Repušić (pr. REP-oosh-itch), 39, debuted with the Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester in a concert La rondine in Oct. 2015, returned for a gala two months later and signed his contract* last June. His background, happily, is stable: […]
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Tags: BR Chor, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Duruflé, Henry Raudales, Herz-Jesu-Kirche, Ivan Repušić, Ljubomir Puškarić, Max Hanft, München, Münchner Rundfunk-Orchester, Munich, Okka von der Damerau, Respighi, Review
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Thursday, March 9th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 9, 2017 MUNICH — Making a taut and impassioned case for Mahler’s Tenth Symphony (1910) here at the Herkulessaal Feb. 17, Yannick Nézet-Séguin still rather confirmed Leonard Bernstein’s dictum that the composer “had said it all in the Ninth.” Mahler’s inspiration sustained itself, as tidily executed by the Symphonie-Orchester des […]
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Tags: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berg, Dem Andenken eines Engels, Herkulessaal, Mahler, München, Munich, Review, Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Veronika Eberle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
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Saturday, March 4th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 4, 2017 ZURICH — The goal presumably was to freshen the tale of Jason and his cooperative wife Medea as told by Thomas Corneille (filtering his brother Pierre and Euripides) and mise en musique by Charpentier. But stage director Andreas Homoki’s new Médée (1693) for Opernhaus Zürich, where he doubles […]
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Tags: Andreas Homoki, Charpentier, Chor der Oper Zürich, Christie, Corneille, Ivan Thirion, Médée, Mélissa Petit, Nahuel di Pierro, Opernhaus Zürich, Orchestra La Scintilla, Reinoud van Mechelen, Review, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Zurich, Zurich Opera House
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Friday, February 24th, 2017
By ANDREW POWELL Published: February 24, 2017 SALZBURG — The gimmicky proposition of Mozart’s Requiem enhanced with equine ballet dominated this year’s Mozartwoche schedule, and no doubt budget. It capped, in a way, five iterations of the festival lavishly managed by Marc Minkowski and his front-office counterpart Matthias Schulz, and it brought in for the […]
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Tags: Académie Équestre Nationale du Domaine de Versailles, András Schiff, Ave verum corpus, Bartabas, Beethoven, Cappella Andrea Barca, Charles Dekeyser, Elisabeth Kulman, Felsenreitschule, Funeral Anthem for Queen Caroline, Genia Kühmeier, Georg Friedrich Händel, Großes Festspielhaus, Haydn, Leif Ove Andsnes, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski, Mozarteum, Mozartwoche, Peter Sonn, Piano, Review, Salzburg, Salzburger Bachchor, The Ways of Zion Do Mourn, Thomas Hengelbrock, Vienna Philharmonic, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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