A Powerful Relic from Post-war Germany: Welsh National Opera's Boulevard Solitude

Von Peter Reynolds, 28 Februar 2014

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, am 26 Februar 2014

Henze, Boulevard Solitude

Welsh National Opera

Lothar Koenigs, Musikalische Leitung

Mariusz Treliński, Regie

Boris Kudlička, Bühnenbild

Sarah Tynan, Manon Lescaut

Peter Wedd, Armand des Grieux

Adrian Thompson, Lilaque, père

Benjamin Bevan, Lescaut

Felice Ross, Licht

Bartek Macias, Video

Tomasz Wygoda, Choreographie

Pelléas et Mélisande

Simon Rees, 29th May

Mélisande als Lulu in David Pountneys unbefriedigender Inszenierung von Debussys Pelléas et Mélisande für die Welsh National Opera.

****1

A magnificent Tosca from Welsh National Opera at the Mayflower
David Truslove, 3rd October

WNO imports Edward Dick’s exceptionally fine production, which benefits from from superb casting and outstanding performances led by Natalya Romaniw.

*****

Bancroft and BBCNOW at the Proms: a deeply satisfying Mahler 3
David Karlin, 11th August

Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales provide a Mahler 3 of exceptional clarity and forward momentum, with terrific posthorn solos from Corey Morris and Beth Taylor an outstanding soloist.

****1

A dark and disturbing Rigoletto from WNO at the Mayflower
David Truslove, 14th November

Fine performances in a punchy new production that coats this tragic opera in a large dollop of debauchery.

****1

WNO stages Death in Venice for the first time and it’s a triumph
Mark Valencia, 7th March

Olivia Fuchs solves the problems of Britten's thorny opera in a brilliant new production that hits the heights, featuring Mark Le Brocq as earthbound scholar, Gustav von Aschenbach.

*****

Musical performances keep WNO's new Così afloat
Mark Valencia, 6th March

Max Hoehn takes Così‘s subtitle, La scuola degli amanti (The School for Lovers), and connects it to Monty Python’s sex education sketch in The Meaning of Life. What larks, eh?

***11

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Adrian Thompson Bartek Macias Benjamin Bevan Boris Kudlička Felice Ross Hans Werner Henze Lothar Koenigs Mariusz Treliński Peter Wedd Sarah Tynan Tomasz Wygoda Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera Chorus Welsh National Opera Orchestra

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Peter Reynolds

Peter Reynolds was a composer and writer on music living in Cardiff. He was a part-time member of staff at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and, in 2009, published a history of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Very sadly he passed away on 11th October 2016.