Sequentia perform the Rheingold from Edda

Edda - The Rheingold Curse, Cité de la Musique - Paris, September 24 2010

Benjamin Bagby ..... voice, lyre

Agnethe Christensen ..... voice (Brynhild), drum

Lena Susanne Norin ..... voice (Gudrun)

Elizabeth Gaver ..... fiddle

Norbert Rodenkirchen ..... flutes, lyre

Good news: Das Rheingold from La Scala on TV-Mezzo

Guy Cassiers's magnificent-looking production of Das Rheingold --which is to be premiered tomorrow at  La Scala in Milan-- will be live broadcast by Mezzo-TV on Wednesday, May 26 at 8 pm (cet). This is extra-good news as our fave Kwangchul Youn will be singing Fasolt (he shares the role with Tigran Martirossian)

Anna Samuil and René Pape

Check out the package of TV-channels you received together with your Internet connection. Mezzo might be somewhere on the list. The above and the pics you can find below are all taken during the final dress rehearsal and are © Koen Broos.
 

What to do between two Rheingold shows?

If you are Marcel Reijans, you can for example tour with your pals in Holland and be cool in a way complementary to your coolly sung & acted Froh at Opéra Bastille. We like the attitude! :)

 

The Paris Ring: Das Rheingold

 Opéra Bastille, March 4, 2010

PHILIPPE JORDAN Conductor

GÜNTER KRÄMER Director

FALK STRUCKMANN  Wotan

SAMUEL YOUN Donner

MARCEL REIJANS Froh

KIM BEGLEY Loge

PETER SIDHOM Alberich

WOLFGANG ABLINGER-SPERRHACKE Mime

IAIN PATERSON Fasolt

GÜNTHER GROISSBÖCK Fafner

SOPHIE KOCH Fricka

ANN PETERSEN Freia

QIU LIN ZHANG Erda

CAROLINE STEIN Woglinde

DANIELA SINDRAM Wellgunde

NICOLE PICCOLOMINI Flosshilde

VERY good premiere of Das Rheingold in Paris

It's late to spill out the details but just a quick post to say that the opening night of Das Rheingold in Paris was very good. EVERY role was wonderfully sung and I do like the Günter Krämer's sense for theater, his great attention to details, his way to guide all the actors to participate in the dramatic action. In this show the singers never park & bark. Still, you'd like to see the director "crossing the line" every now and then... In this show that never happens. Although it has a leftist pretension [the idea with the Giants being the Unions works really very well] the show is pretty bourgeois ;) 
Well, a brilliantly portrayed Loge is an exception (the only place where the director steps an inch over  the line). 1 fun pic of Loge the cynic ;)

Loge - Kim Begley (superb singer and remarkable actor) 

Nite!

The Paris Ring: Rhein-ball [dress rehearsal]

I attended the final dress rehearsal last night. In this post I share some points about the production without talking about the vocal qualities of the singers nor about the orchestra -- as this show still carried a tag "rehearsal".

Das Rheingold (L'Or du Rhin) will be premiered coming Thursday, March 4, and Yours Truly has the ticket :)

So what's the Krämer's Ring about?