Der Welt die Tränen entlocken: Jolanthe in der Berliner Philharmonie

By Alexandra Richter, 17 January 2022

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“Grigorians müheloser und ungewöhnlich zärtlich klingender Sopran schwebte über dem Orchester”

Reviewed at Philharmonie: Großer Saal, Berlin on 14 January 2022

Tchaikovsky, Iolanta (Concert performance)

Kirill Petrenko, Conductor

Berliner Philharmoniker

Rundfunkchor Berlin

Asmik Grigorian, Iolanta

Mika Kares, King René

Liparit Avetisyan, Vaudémont

Igor Golovatenko, Robert

Michael Kraus, Ibn-Hakia

Dmitry Ivanchey, Alméric

Nikolay Didenko, Bertrand

Margarita Nekrasova, Martha

Olga Pudova, Brigitta

Victoria Karkacheva, Laura

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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Alexandra Richter

Alexandra hat Medienwissenschaften studiert und arbeitet als Filmproduzentin in Frankfurt. Tagsüber sind die Kunstausstellungen und Museen ganz Europas ihr zu Hause. Die Abende verbringt sie gern in der Oper und im Konzertsaal. Hier liegen ihre Schwerpunkte bei Romantischen Komponist*innen, wie Schubert und Wagner. Aber auch zeitgenössische und moderne Musik finden immer wieder Beachtung.

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