Koopmans Weihnachtsoratorium

By Huda Knobloch, 20 December 2014

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“die Echo-Arie holte auch den steifsten Konzertgänger aus dem Sitz”

Reviewed at Tonhalle: Mendelssohn Saal, Düsseldorf on 17 December 2014

Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV248

Ton Koopman, Conductor

Amsterdam Baroque Choir

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Yetzabel Arias Fernández, Soprano

Maarten Engeltjes, Countertenor

Tilman Lichdi, Tenor

Klaus Mertens, Bass

Jetske Mijnssen's Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

Eleanor Knight, 4th June

Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

*****

Tavener's Krishna fails to convince in world premiere

Nick Boston, 4th June

John Tavener's “mystical pantomime” proves a disappointment, despite strong performances from singers and orchestra in David Pountney's production.

***11

Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris

David Karlin, 2nd June

Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.

****1

Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Mark Pullinger, 1st June

Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre.

****1

Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Eleanor Knight, 30th May

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.

***11

Bang! Mozart’s volcano erupts in Opera Holland Park’s Così fan tutte

Peter Quantrill, 28th May

Mount Vesuvius looms over Cecilia Stinton’s compelling new production of Così fan tutte.

****1

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Huda Knobloch

Huda Knobloch ist Musikstudentin und spielt seit ihrem neunten Lebensjahr ihr Wunschinstrument Bratsche. In verschiedenen Ensembles lebt sie ihre größte Leidenschaft, die Kammermusik, sowie auch traditionelle arabische und irische Musik aus. Meist mit und manchmal ohne Bratschenkoffer reist sie liebend gerne durch die Weltgeschichte.

Mit Pauken und Trompeten: Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium von Ton Koopman und dem Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir