Così or not Così

Così fan tutte, Théâtre des Champs Élysées, May 22 2012

Jérémie Rhorer..... Director

Eric Génovèse [Valérie Nègre] ..... Director 

Camilla Tilling ..... Fiordiligi 

Michèle Losier ..... Dorabella 

Claire Debono ..... Despina 

Bernard Richter ..... Ferrando 

Markus Werba ..... Guglielmo 

Pietro Spagnoli ..... Don Alfonso 

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie 

Choeur du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Superb Parsifal in Stuttgart

Stuttgart, April 1, 2010

Johann Tilli, Christiane Iven and Andrew Richards

Director Calixto Bieito
Conductor Manfred Honeck

Gurnemanz Johann Tilli
Amfortas Gregg Baker
Parsifal Andrew Richards
Klingsor Claudio Otelli
Kundry Christiane Iven
Titurel Matthias Hölle
1. Gralsritter Heinz Göhrig
2. Gralsritter Mark Munkittrick
Vier Knappen Yuko Kakuta, Diana Haller, Torsten Hofmann, Hans Kittelmann
Blumenmädchen Julia Borchert, Petra van der Mieden, Tina Hörhold, Yuko Kakuta, Agata Wilewska, Michaela Schneider

Maestro Gatti does what Mahler did 100 years ago

Last night was a positively crazy musical night in Paris. Look at this:

• the last show of this memorable Werther, with Kaufmann and Koch rocking la Bastille again
• Théatre des Champs-Elysées hosted the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment lead by Vladimir Jurowski to perform the Beethoven's Symphonies 4 & 7
• Pleyel was singing with Philippe Jaroussky and Orchestre de Paris (I bet this is the material for his next CD)
• Garnier Opera hosted the Luc Bondy production of Idomeneo with Kasarova, Workman, Iveri...
• Salle Gaveau organized the baroque concert with Ensemble Orfeo 55 and Nathalie Stutzmann
• in Théâtre du Châtelet maestro Daniele Gatti (our fav) was conducting the Orchestre national de France -- the Symphony #2 by Mahler, a.k.a. the Resurrection [which is where I decided to go ;)]

Conductor Daniele Gatti
Soprano Camilla Tilling
Contralto  Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Orchestre National de France
Radio France Chorus

I thought the theater would not be that packed -- because of so many events  happening in Paris [and it was a Thursday-night], but I obviously underestimated the intensity of the Mahler-mania among Parisians ;) Even the staircases were crowded with people (many of them very-very young!).