Easter Concert in Lucerne is one of the big musical events every year. This year's concert was filmed and a DVD release is planned. On the program was the Glagolitic Mass by Janacek, performed by the amazing Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra lead by Mariss Jansons, and the cherry-picked soloists: Tatiana Monogarova, Marina Prudenskaya, Ludovít Ludha, Peter Mikuláš.
Wiki: The word "glagolitic" is defined as an adjective meaning " of,
relating to, or denoting a Slavic alphabet whose invention is attributed
to Saint Cyril, preserved only in certain Roman Catholic liturgical
books found in Dalmatia.
Fellow blogger Gesamtkunstwerk informed us that the Bayreuth Tannhäuser 2012 will sound very different from its first incarnation in 2011. Lars Clevemann [who apparently backed out] will be replaced by Torsten Kerl which might be good considering the size of the Festspielhaus
auditorium. On the other hand the decision to
replace Thomas Hengelbrock by Christian Thielemann is totally baffling unless you fit in the saying "Politics is everywhere."
Good to see that three of four nominated productions have been created at
the ENO [other two being A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Christopher Alden, The
Passenger directed by David Pountney], and it seems logical that ENO was eventually also awarded for the "Outstanding Achievement in Opera". Can we now hope the ENO reconsidering the archaic "all opera sung in English" rule?
Note that the over-hyped Adriana Lecouvreur by McVicar was notnominated last year.
Ticket booking at La Monnaie/De Munt for the new production of Il Trovatore opens today - April 28. This is not a Verdi opera I like, but since Dmitri Tcherniakov is producing Yours Truly will make an effort, hop on Thalys and go to see the live show.
Marc Minkowski will have his hands full with his first opera by Verdi [I wonder if this decision was a tad too audacious], and the cast is phenomenal with Scott Hendricks (GOAT Macbeth), Sylvie Brunet, Marina Poplavskaya, Misha Didyk and Giovanni Furlanetto.
Do not forget to book your seats for Poppea e Nerone in Madrid (it's new Warlikowski!) and the cast list looks promising...
Two things for the Bel Canto fans: Graham Vick recently produced new Anna Bolena in Florence, with Mariella Devia in the title role together with Ganassi, Scandiuzzi, Mukeria... A long trailer:
More videos of Mariellissima from this show can be found on YT (here, here, or from rehearsal here).
A few videos from the David Hermann production of Il Turco in Italia --currently running in Amsterdam-- landed on YT. Here is one with our dear Olga Fiorilla Peretyatko
Don't get me wrong! I very much admire McVicar for his Nozze, Zauberflöte, Manon, The Rape of Lucrezia, The RING!!!, Semele, La Bohème..., but beside those gems there is a series of uninspiring productions like Clemenza, Trovatore, Aida, Meistersinger, Bolena. Hyper-productivity leads to lower quality.
Richard Jones is becoming hyper-productive too. I counted something like 7 productions next year...
OperaCake, thank for covering new productions and NEW works. Opera isn't dead! BTW, have you heard any advance word on Le Duc d'Albe, coming up at Vlaamse Oper? Thank you, too, for linking to broadcasts of unusual (rare) operas. I love your site.
Adriana Lecouvreur by McVicar was nominated last year.
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ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong! I very much admire McVicar for his Nozze, Zauberflöte, Manon, The Rape of Lucrezia, The RING!!!, Semele, La Bohème..., but beside those gems there is a series of uninspiring productions like Clemenza, Trovatore, Aida, Meistersinger, Bolena. Hyper-productivity leads to lower quality.
Richard Jones is becoming hyper-productive too. I counted something like 7 productions next year...
Wow, bit of a shock there, re: Spence. Glad to hear he's doing well now.
ReplyDeleteOperaCake, thank for covering new productions and NEW works. Opera isn't dead! BTW, have you heard any advance word on Le Duc d'Albe, coming up at Vlaamse Oper? Thank you, too, for linking to broadcasts of unusual (rare) operas. I love your site.
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