Satan, sex, blood and redemption: Faust in Finland

Von Roy Westbrook, 12 Juli 2018

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“this is not a production afraid of a cliché if it can work effectively in this unique space”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Olavinlinna Castle, Savonlinna, am 11 Juli 2018

Gounod, Faust

Philippe Auguin, Musikalische Leitung

Vilppu Kiljunen, Regie

Kimmo Viskari, Bühnenbild

Tuuli Takala, Marguerite

Diego Silva, Faust

Tuomas Pursio, Méphistophélès

Tiina Penttinen, Marthe

Erica Back, Siebel

Clemens Unterreiner, Valentin

Jussi Merikanto, Wagner

Savonlinna Opera Festival Choir

Savonlinna Opera Festival Orchestra

King of the Castle: Verdi’s Macbeth in Savonlinna

Mark Pullinger, 4th July

Olavinlinna, also known as St Olaf's Castle, provides an atmospheric setting for Verdi's take on Shakespeare's “Scottish play”.

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Rautavaara's The Mine in Budapest

Katherine Syer, 21st October

Opening the weekend that marked the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, The Mine (A Bánya), the first of Rautavaara's nine operas, dramatizes events from those turbulent times.

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Murdering the customers, murdering the score

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 14th May

At the Estonian National Opera, Vilppu Kiljunen's staging of Hindemith's crime opera Cardillac is wonderfully eerie. Unfortunately, conductor Vello Pähn's reading of the score doesn't do it justice.

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Vivaldis Il Giustino mit Jacobs und dem Freiburger Barockorchester

Jens Klier, 21st April

Jacobs, FBO und exzellenter Gesangscrew gelingt es als Ensemble im ureigensten Wortsinne, Atmosphäre und Figuren effektstark zu veranschaulichen.

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Anna Netrebko glänzt in Wiens zeitloser Tosca

Laura Servidei, 18th April

In einer Welt, in der Operninszenierungen oft ins Abstrakte abgleiten, bietet die „Tosca“ der Wiener Staatsoper eine erfrischende Rückkehr zur Tradition – und Anna Netrebko liefert eine großartige Darbietung.

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Liebeswirren in Mozarts La finta giardiniera in Nürnberg

Michael Vieth, 14th April

Die Regisseurin Brigitte Fassbaender beweist einen grünen Daumen für Mozarts frühes Dramma giocosa und lässt neben mitreißend witzigem Szenenspiel einfühlsame Charakterporträts entstehen.

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Weitere Kritiken...

Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.