2017Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2017-06-15UTC13:59:01+00:002017-06-15Eva-Maria Westbroek proves an outstanding Káťa in the Staatsoper's revival of Janáček's opera, powerfully conducted by Simon Rattle. Cold discomfort: Andrea Breth's uncompromising Kát'a Kabanová at the Staatsoperen_GBtruehttps://bachtrack.com/review-kata-kabanova-breth-westbroek-rattle-berlin-staatsoper-june-2017Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngHugo Shirleyhttps://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/22604https://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/22604https://bachtrack.com/files/45170-hugo-shirley.jpgHugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and is currently working on a critical study of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten, based on his doctoral thesis. He blogs at http://hugoshirley.blogspot.co.uk and tweets as @hugojeshirley.https://bachtrack.com/files/61824-katja-eva-maria-westbroek-c-bernd-uhlig-staatsoper-berlin-2014-resized.jpg510340Eva-Maria Westbroek (Kát'a Kabanová)Bernd Uhlig (2014)2017-Jun-14, Staatsoper at Schiller Theater: Katja Kabanowahttps://bachtrack.com/opera-listing/staatsoper-at-schiller-theater/katja-kabanowa/14-june-2017/19-302017-06-142017-06-25Staatsoper at Schiller TheaterBerlinBerlinGermany10625Bismarckstraße 11052.512264813.3181129https://bachtrack.com/files/64134-staatsoper-unter-den-linden-berlin.jpg4
2017Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2017-05-30UTC14:43:58+00:002017-05-29Jephtha at the Halle Handel Festival subverts the text, and provides little in the way of dramatic or musical compensation.Oper Halle's Jephtha lacks coherencyen_GBtruehttps://bachtrack.com/review-handel-jephtha-gurbaca-halle-may-2017Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngSandra Bowdlerhttps://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/22175https://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/22175https://bachtrack.com/files/40842-sandra-bowlder.jpgSandra Bowdler was born and educated in Sydney, and has pursued a career as an archaeologist since graduating from the University of Sydney in 1970. She is now Emeritus Professor of Archaeology and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia in the School of Social Sciences and the School of Music. Since attending a production of Handel’s opera Alcina at the Sydney Opera House in 1982, she has become a devotee of the works of GF Handel, and Baroque music generally. In 1996 she began writing opera reviews for online outlets, graduating to more professional sources by 2000. In 2007, she inaugurated Festival Baroque Australia in Perth, Western Australia, Australia’s first Baroque music festival. Under that banner, she curated two festivals and several concerts in Perth.https://bachtrack.com/files/60714-jephtha-robert-sellier--jephtha---chor-c-tobias-kruse-resized.jpg510340Robert Sellier (Jephtha) and ChorusTobias Kruse2017-May-26, Oper Halle: Official Opening of the Handel Festivalhttps://bachtrack.com/opera-listing/oper-halle/official-opening-of-the-handel-festival/26-may-2017/19-302017-05-262017-06-04Oper HalleHalleSaxony-AnhaltGermanyUniversitätsring 2451.4867811.97117https://bachtrack.com/files/38532-handel-festival-halle-germany.jpg2
2017Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2017-04-04UTC10:02:10+00:002017-04-03Juan Diego Flórez stars as Goethe’s archetypal Romantic poet in Massenet's Werther in Zurich. Provocation as part of the package: Massenet’s Werther in Zurichen_GBtruehttps://bachtrack.com/review-werther-gurbaca-florez-stephany-zurich-april-2017Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngSarah Batschelethttps://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/16221https://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/16221https://bachtrack.com/files/42348-sarah-batschelet.jpgSarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.https://bachtrack.com/files/57274-werther-juan-diego-florez-anna-stephany-zurich-c-herwig-prammer-resized.jpg510340Juan Diego Flórez (Werther) and Anna Stéphany (Charlotte)Herwig Prammer2017-Apr-02, Opernhaus: Wertherhttps://bachtrack.com/opera-listing/opernhaus-1069/werther/02-april-2017/19-002017-04-022017-04-30OpernhausZürichZürichSwitzerland8008Falkenstrasse 147.36464318.546483500000022https://bachtrack.com/files/37225-werther.jpg4
Die Zauberflöte may well tell us something about the Human Condition, but its staging in Zurich serves more to distract from the music and the messages than it does to support them.
2014Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2014-12-11UTC09:00:33+00:002014-12-08Die Zauberflöte may well tell us something about the Human Condition, but its staging in Zurich serves more to distract from the music and the messages than it does to support them.Die Zauberflöte in Zurich: Celestial music, but a distracting productionen_GBtruehttps://bachtrack.com/review-zauberflote-gurbaca-zurich-december-2014Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngSarah Batschelethttps://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/16221https://bachtrack.com/22/270/list-published/16221https://bachtrack.com/files/42348-sarah-batschelet.jpgSarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.https://bachtrack.com/files/7553-zauberflote_sen_guo_hans_jorg_michel.jpg321480Sen Guo (The Queen of the Night)Hans Jörg Michel2014-Dec-07, Opernhaus: Die Zauberflötehttps://bachtrack.com/opera-listing/opernhaus-1069/die-zauberflote/07-december-2014/19-002014-12-072015-01-11OpernhausZürichZürichSwitzerland8008Falkenstrasse 147.36464318.546483500000022https://bachtrack.com/files/16010-zauberfloete_bachtrack1415.jpg2
2014Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2014-06-05UTC09:06:16+00:002014-06-04Rudolf Frey's production of Nabucco for Welsh National Opera undercuts the solemnity and beauty of the opera, detracting from some fine performances. Glitter and black ostrich feathers prevail in WNO's Nabuccoen_GBtruehttps://bachtrack.com/review-nabucco-wno-may-2014Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngSimon Reeshttps://bachtrack.com/files/5533-nabucco_mary_elizabeth_williams_bill_cooper.jpg510340Mary Elizabeth Williams (Abigaille)Bill Cooper2014-May-31, Wales Millennium Centre: Nabuccohttps://bachtrack.com/opera-listing/wales-millennium-centre/nabucco/31-may-2014/19-152014-05-312014-06-14Wales Millennium CentreCardiffWalesUnited KingdomCF10 5ALBute Place, Cardiff
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Die Premiere von Franz Schrekers Oper Der ferne Klang am Nationaltheater Mannheim überzeugte mit einer gelungenen musikalischen Darbietung, war jedoch gewöhnungsbedürftig und eigenwillig inszeniert.
2015Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.png2015-07-13UTC11:26:56+00:002015-07-12Die Premiere von Franz Schrekers Oper Der ferne Klang am Nationaltheater Mannheim überzeugte mit einer gelungenen musikalischen Darbietung, war jedoch gewöhnungsbedürftig und eigenwillig inszeniert.Der ferne Klang oder Die Suche nach dem künstlerischen Idealde_DEtruehttps://bachtrack.com/kritik-der-ferne-klang-cornelia-ptassek-michael-baba-dan-ettinger-guerbaca-nationaltheater-mannheim-juli-2015Bachtrack Ltdhttps://bachtrack.com/themes/bachtrack2013/mastheadlogo.pngChristine Rothhttps://bachtrack.com/files/25784-nationaltheater_mannheim_der_gerne_klang_cornelia_ptassek_c_hans_jorg_michel.jpg620413Cornelia Ptassek (Grete)Hans Jörg Michel | Nationaltheater Mannheim2015-Jul-10, Nationaltheater: Opernhaus: Der ferne Klanghttps://bachtrack.com/opera-listing/nationaltheater-opernhaus/der-ferne-klang/10-july-2015/19-302015-07-102015-07-28Nationaltheater: OpernhausMannheimBaden-WürttembergGermany68161Mozartstraße 949.489498.478499999999943
