Today, August 1st 2010, at 19:00 (cet), there will be a live broadcast of
Richard Strauss'
Salomé from
Salle des Combins in Verbier. The ensemble of artists is more than inviting...
For the rest of the cast
see here.
Valery Gergiev will conduct the
Verbier Festival Orchestra, and
Arte (the World's coolest TV) provides the webcast to everyone via
ARTE Live Web. Alternatively you can watch it on
medici.tv.
Video is appended below. If you don't catch it live, you can see it during a month following the live broadcast.
Tessier, Nikitin, and Voigt
Debbie Voigt might be good in this role (?), Nikitin must be excellent as ever, and you cannot not to be curious to see Dame Gwen Jones and Siegfried Jerusalem (unsurpassed Tristan -- c.f.
this DVD)
Since the Verbier Orchestra is so special, I guess Valya Gergiev was forced to practice the score for some time with them, and when he invests some of his precious time rehearsing the result is most often very good [
although this rarely happens since he became a man who conducts "364 concerts a year" ;)]
Ed: Very good concert!
Gergiev evidently practiced with the youngsters who put their souls and hearts into this performance. The oldies were struggling a bit but who cares! ;)
Debbie should forget Isolde and keep singing this. Brava!
The most impressive singer tonight was, however, Evgeny Nikitin. Enooormous!
Video embedded below.
