Kurt Weill meets Francis Poulenc in Opera Parallèle's innovative production

Par Jaime Robles, 28 avril 2014

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Critique faite à Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, le 25 avril 2014

Weill, Mahagonny Songspiel

Poulenc, Les Mamelles de Tirésias

Thomas Glenn, Ténor

Renée Rapier, Mezzo-soprano

Adler Fellow, Baryton

Aleksey Bogdanov, Baryton

Daniel Cilli, Baryton

Gabriel Preisser, Ténor

Rachel Schutz, Soprano

The Rake’s Progress at Glimmerglass: Temptation and collapse

Edward Sava-Segal, 3rd August

Stravinsky’s fable of desire and downfall receives a meticulously unified staging in Glimmerglass’s 50th season.

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A Rachmaninov troika from Odyssey Opera, with one lame horse

Kevin Wells, 25th September

Gil Rose conducts all three of Rachmaninov's operas in Boston, with impressive performances making a convincing case for at least two of them.

****1

The Metropolitan Opera performs a revelatory, original Boris Godunov

Robert Levine, 28th September

Forget Rimsky-Korsakov, forget the Polish act... Stephen Wadsworth's new production for The Met returns to Mussorgsky's original 1869 version of his Russian historical epic.

*****

El reverso oscuro de Les contes d’Hoffmann en el Liceu

Maria Sánchez, 18th January

La reposición de Les contes d'Hoffmann de Laurent Pelly triunfa por lo onírico y poético de la propuesta, convirtiendo este clásico en una lectura caleidoscópica y con tintes siniestros

*****

Chicago Opera Theater's bold study of contrasts

Katherine Syer, 16th November

An unusual double bill of operas by Joby Talbot and Sergei Rachmaninov under conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya in Chicago.

****1

A rousing rarity in Boston: The Maid of Orléans

Kevin Wells, 16th September

Disparaged by critics and his fellow musicians, Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orléans is performed by Odyssey Opera.

*****

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Jaime Robles

Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.