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Tag Archives: Pavel Cernoch
Thrills, chills and an immersive auto-da-fé: Konwitschny’s Don Carlos sizzles in Hamburg
Verdi: Don Carlos Staatsoper Hamburg, 30th May 2019 “Beware my Grand Inquisitor!” The Hamburg audience would do well to heed Phliip II’s warning to the Marquis de Posa in Peter Konwitschny’s production of Don Carlos. During the first interval, there … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexey Bogdanchikov, Alin Anca, Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper, Don Carlos, Elena Zhidkova, Gábor Bretz, Johannes Leiacker, Lianna Haroutounian, Luigi De Donato, Pavel Cernoch, Peter Konwitschny, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Staatsoper Hamburg, Verdi
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Netrebko in majestic form as Tatyana in Paris Onegin
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin *** Opéra de Paris, Bastille, 16th May 2017 The operatic merry-go-round is a strange beast. In April, Peter Mattei and Anna Netrebko were starring together in Deborah Warner’s production of Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera, the final … Continue reading
Finding release among the poppy fields: Dmitri Tcherniakov’s powerful Prince Igor reaches Amsterdam
Borodin: Prince Igor **** Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, 7th February 2017 When faced with Disaster rather than Triumph, how does a true leader respond? The ability to “watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build … Continue reading
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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