Week-end Korngold à Radio France

By Suzanne Lay-Canessa, 03 February 2016

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“Une progression historique, voire cyclique, du plus bel effet.”

Reviewed at Maison de la Radio et de la Musique: Studio 104, Paris on 31 January 2016

Mahler, Piano Quartet in A minor

Zemlinsky, Maiblumen blühten überall

Korngold, Die Tote Stadt: Marietta's Lied, "Glück das mir verblieb"

Korngold, String Sextet in D major, Op.10

Camilla Nylund, Soprano

Musiciens de l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

Aurélie Souvignet, Viola

Virginie Buscail, Violin

La solitude de Yunchan Lim dans l'Auditorium de Radio France

Alain Lompech, 12th October

Pas aidé par la direction emphatique et statique de Myung-whun Chung, le lauréat du Concours Van Cliburn n'a pas su déployer son jeu dans le Concerto de Robert Schumann.

**111

The Ring returns to the Rhine: Götterdämmerung at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 1st February

Under Alexander Soddy’s powerful conducting and Sir David McVicar’s dark, evocative staging, the Ring finds a searing conclusion, anchored by a powerful Brünnhilde from Camilla Nylund, as the world burns.

*****

Klaus Florian Vogt a successful Siegfried at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 21st June

McVicar’s most successful Ring chapter yet: Siegfried convinces with beautiful imagery and a stellar cast, with Alexander Soddy at the baton.

****1

Hojotoho! La Scala’s new Walküre opens with a stellar cast

Laura Servidei, 5th February

With bad-ass punk valkyries and rich in fantasy overtones, Sir David McVicar's La Scala Ring cycle continues.

****1

Thielemann bids farewell to Dresden with an excellent new FroSch

Ako Imamura, 27th March

David Bösch directs a creative and thoughtful new production of Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Semperoper in Christian Thielemann's final opera as Principal Conductor.

*****

Jérémie Rhorer conducts monumental Beethoven in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 2nd April

One of the leading events of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's Festtage, Jérémie Rhorer's interpretation of the Missa solemnis is a monument to the composer... but its marble is not always too cleanly carved.

***11

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Suzanne Lay-Canessa

Docteure en littérature comparée, passionnée de langues, Suzanne a consacré sa thèse de doctorat à Jean-Sébastien Bach. Elle enseigne le français, la littérature et l’histoire de l’Opéra à l’Institute for American Universities et à Sciences Po Aix. Collaboratrice régulière du journal Zibeline, elle publie dans les rubriques Musiques, Livres, Cinéma, Spectacle vivant et Arts Visuels.

Week-end Korngold à Radio France : Mahler, Zemlinsky … et les autres