Rex tremendae majestatis: Stravinsky at the Baltic Sea Festival

Par Matthew Rye, 22 août 2017

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“Rarely have the Alleluias over Stravinsky’s rolling, tolling bass sounded as cathartic as here”

Critique faite à Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, le 21 août 2017

Stravinsky, Oedipus Rex

Stravinsky, Symphonie de Psaumes

Royal Swedish Opera

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Direction

Peter Sellars, Mise en scène

Dunya Ramicova, Costumes

Violeta Urmana, Jocasta

Joseph Kaiser, Oedipus

Joshua Stewart, Shepherd

Davóne Tines, Creon, Messenger, Creon / Messenger

Helene Siebrits, Costumes

Ladies of the Gustaf Sjökvists Kammarkör

Royal Swedish Orchestra

Orphei Dränger

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).

Rex tremendae majestatis: impressive Stravinsky at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm