Messes par temps de guerre en ouverture du Gstaad Menuhin Festival

René Jacobs dirige le concert d'ouverture du Gstaad Menuhin Festival 2022

By Romain Daroles, 17 July 2022

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“Ordre et clarté de l’impeccable RIAS Kammerchor imposent la conviction d’une paix à venir”

Reviewed at Saanen Church, Saanen on 16 July 2022

Haydn, Mass no. 10 in C major, "Paukenmesse” (In Time of War), Hob XXII:9

Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K626

Birgitte Christensen, Soprano

Sophie Harmsen, Mezzo-soprano

Maximilian Schmitt, Tenor

Johannes Weisser, Bass

RIAS Kammerchor Berlin

Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

René Jacobs, Conductor

Highly polished Mozart from Freiburg Baroque in Melbourne

Sandra Bowdler, 26th March

Melbourne-born soprano Sioghan Stagg returns for a one night stand with Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra as part of their Australian tour.

****1

Dionysian and Apollonian: René Jacobs conducts L'Orfeo in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 18th February

In a concert performance at the Berlin Philharmonie, conductor René Jacobs gives his own – thrilling – take on Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.

*****

Light and shadows in Rattle and Sellars' Médée at Staatsoper Berlin

Elena Luporini, 19th November

Reuniting two old friends and collaborators, the Staatsoper Berlin presents a new production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée, with mixed results.

***11

Freiburg Baroque brings the Thames to Klosters

Mark Pullinger, 31st July

One of the world's top period instrument ensembles bring Handel's Water Music and other baroque classics to Klosters.

****1

Excellent revival of Claus Guth's Saul at Theater an der Wien

George Jahn, 20th April

“How Excellent.” The first words sung in Handel’s Saul are in praise of God and were first uttered in a performance nearly three centuries ago. But they apply equally to Claus Guth’s interpretation of the work staged by Theater an der Wien.

*****

Aquatic favourites from the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Zenaida des Aubris, 5th April

Maurice Steger makes his debut with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in a concert of Baroque favourites.

*****

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Romain Daroles

Romain Daroles est né entre Gascogne et Armagnac, terre qui lui a transmis le goût des lettres, de la musique et de la bonne chère. Parallèlement à des études littéraires qui se solderont avec l’obtention d’un Master en Littératures Françaises à la Sorbonne, il approfondit sa formation théâtrale au Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique du 6e arrondissement de Paris, ainsi que sa passion pour l’opéra. Titulaire en 2016 d'un Bachelor Théâtre décerné par la Manufacture de Lausanne, il est comédien/metteur en scène et a joué sous la direction de François Gremaud, Marie Fourquet, Alain Borek ou Mathias Brossard.