Posts Tagged ‘Zurich’
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, 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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Friday, November 4th, 2011
by James Jorden “I’ve almost come to the conclusion that this Mr. Hitler isn’t a Christian,” muses merry murderess Abby Brewster early in the first act of Arsenic and Old Lace, and to tell the truth I’m beginning to think I’m almost as far behind the curve as she was. Recent new productions at the […]
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Tags: anna netrebko, james jorden, leonard bernstein, Mahler, music director, musicalamerica, new york times, period costume, peter gelb, pr, richard wagner, robert lepage, Street Car Named Desire, the met, verdi, willy decker, Zurich
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