Excellent in parts: Meistersinger at Covent Garden

Par David Karlin, 12 mars 2017

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Critique faite à Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres, le 11 mars 2017

Wagner, Les Maîtres chanteurs de Nuremberg

The Royal Opera

Sir Antonio Pappano, Direction

Kasper Holten, Mise en scène

Mia Stensgaard, Décors

Anja Vang Kragh, Costumes

Sir Bryn Terfel, Hans Sachs

Gwyn Hughes Jones, Walther von Stolzing

Johannes Martin Kränzle, Sixtus Beckmesser

Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Eva

Allan Clayton, David

Stephen Milling, Veit Pogner

Hanna Hipp, Magdalena

David Junghoon Kim, Augustin Moser

Alasdair Elliott, Balthasar Zorn

Andrew Tortise, Kunz Vogelgesang

Samuel Sakker, Ulrich Eisslinger

Sebastian Holecek, Fritz Kothner

Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Hans Foltz

Jeremy White, Hans Schwarz

John Cunningham, Hermann Ortel

Gyula Nagy, Konrad Nachtigall

David Shipley, Nightwatchman

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

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Eleanor Knight, 26th March

Natalie Abrahami’s mesmerising new production of Britten’s ghostly tale of sexual abuse is very dark indeed.

*****

A riveting Rigoletto revival at the Royal Opera House

Dominic Lowe, 25th March

Sir Mark Elder celebrates 50 years at Covent Garden by returning to his first opera there in 1976 – Verdi's Rigoletto – in a revival of Oliver Mears' excellent 2021 production.

****1

Siegfried at the RBO: Kosky and Pappano surprise and delight

David Karlin, 17th March

A revelatory orchestral performance and a cast led by Andreas Schager, Christopher Maltman and Elisabeth Strid make this a Siegfried for the record books.

*****

Terfel’s craggy Boris Godunov returns to Covent Garden

Mark Pullinger, 29th January

The second revival of Richard Jones' staging of Mussorgsky's original 1869 version of Boris Godunov once again stars the Welsh knight.

****1

Ermonela Jaho returns in triumph to The Royal Opera’s Traviata

Mark Valencia, 8th January

Richard Eyre’s 32-year-old production is rarely out of The Royal Opera’s repertoire for more than a few months at a time, but this particular revival proves very special.

*****

Turandot drowned in an orchestral tsunami at The Royal Opera

David Karlin, 15th December

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***11

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.

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