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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Les Martyrs: Revelatory Donizetti on disc from Opera Rara
Donizetti: Les Martyrs When Donizetti’s rarity Poliuto opened the 2015 Glyndebourne Festival a week ago, the music would already have been familiar to a number of audience members. Only last autumn, those operatic archaeologists Opera Rara had put on a … Continue reading
Stairway to heaven: a thrilling Mefistofele in Budapest
Boito: Mefistofele ***** Hungarian State Opera, Budapest, 28th May 2015 Rarely performed, Boito’s Mefistofele is an audacious, spectacular opera, needing an audacious, spectacular staging to do it justice. That’s exactly what it gets in Balázs Kovalik’s production for Hungarian State … Continue reading
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Tagged András Palerdi, Attila Fekete, Balázs Kovalik, Boito, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Montanaro, Csaba Antal, Gabriella Létay Kiss, Hungarian State Opera, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Mefistofele
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Der Freischütz: Sándor Zsóter takes brave aim but misses the mark
Weber: Der Freischütz ** Hungarian State Opera, Budapest, 27th May 2015 “A fearsome forest gorge, thickly wooded; two thunderstorms are approaching… a blasted oak, its rotting core gives off a ghostly light.” If that stage description chills, so does the music for … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Ladányi, Beatrix Fodor, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Der Freischütz, Honvéd Male Choir, Hungarian State Opera, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, István Berczelly, István Rácz, Krisztián Cser, Péter Halász, Péter Kiss, Rita Rácz, Sándor Zsótér, Weber, Zoltán Nyári, Zsolt Haja
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Devilishly good fun: Gábor Bretz’s Méphistophélès dominates the stage in Budapest
Gounod: Faust *** Hungarian State Opera, Budapest, 26th May 2015 The devil may not get all the best tunes in Gounod’s Faust, but Gábor Bretz certainly stole the show in this new production at Hungarian State Opera. Polish director Michał … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Rost, Bernadett Wiedemann, Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra, Darío Schmunck, Faust, Gábor Bretz, Gounod, Hungarian State Opera, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Maurizio Benini, Michał Znaniecki, Szilvia Vörös, Zsolt Haja
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Sultry, fiery, coquettish: Stéphanie d’Oustrac’s Carmen has it all
Bizet: Carmen **** Glyndebourne, 23rd May 2015 “The very incarnation of vice” was how one critic described Célestine Galli-Marié’s Carmen at the opera’s 1875 Opéra Comique première. That description could equally be applied to Stéphanie d’Oustrac in Glyndebourne’s revival of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bizet, Carmen, Christophe Gay, David McVicar, David Soar, Eliana Pretorian, Glyndebourne, Jakub Hrůša, Loïc Felix, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lucy Crowe, Pavel Cernoch, Simon Lim, Stéphanie d’Oustrac
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