Progress thwarted: Stravinsky's Rake at the Elbphilharmonie

Por Mark Pullinger, 30 mayo 2019

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“Rake needs plenty of neoclassical punch and crispness and Hannigan and Ludwig delivered”

Crítica hecha desde Elbphilharmonie: Grand Hall, Hamburg el 29 mayo 2019

Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress

Barbara Hannigan, Dirección

Linus Fellbom, Dirección de escena, Diseño de iluminación

Anna Ardelius, Diseño de vestuario

Gyula Rab, Tom Rakewell

Sofie Asplund, Anne Trulove

Douglas Williams, Nick Shadow

Marta Świderska, Baba the Turk

Erik Rosenius, Trulove, Mother Goose

James Way, Sellem

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.