Deutsche Oper Berlin staged an ambitious production by Laurence Pelly with mixed results. The performance included new discoveries and young singers brought fresh energy to the evening.
Tatjana Gürbaca’s whole scale tampering with Wagner’s Siegfried had so many flashbacks and flashforwards there should have been a warning for photosensitive members of the audience.
Enoch zu Guttenberg conducts a concert of religious music that traverses a vast host of motley mass-related sentiments – but falls somewhat short of completing the course.
Steiner’s reading of the mildly disturbing but generally obsequiously presented story is decidedly edgy, especially considering the opera is staged inside the city church.
In his production of La traviata for the Swedish Royal Opera, Kasper Holten puts Violetta in a strip club and on the streets. Both the staging and the music are excellent, though the cast's acting is uneven.
For his fourth production for the new Oslo opera house, Norwegian director Stefan Herheim turned his attention to Richard Strauss’ one-act opera Salome. This production is a co-production with the Salzburg Easter Festival (where this production premièred in 2011) and the Teatro Real in Madrid.
No es infrecuente tener la oportunidad de escuchar la Pasión según San Mateo en el transcurso de la Semana Santa, lo que incrementa el número y la intensidad de elementos diegéticos que operan en la representación. En esta ocasión, además, la fecha era señalada por la comparecencia de una pléyade instrumental y vocal: la Orchester und Chor der Klangverwaltung y el Münchner Knabenchor bajo la avezada batuta de Enoch zu Guttenberg.
L’Orchestre KlangVerwaltung et le chef Enoch zu Guttenberg, en compagnie du chœur Chorgemeinschaft Neubeuern, proposaient vendredi dernier à la Maison symphonique de Montréal deux œuvres majeures du répertoire choral : le Magnificat de Bach et le Requiem de Mozart.
