Denkbar beste Besetzung in Rheingold

By Christoph Wurzel, 03 May 2022

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“Siegels vokale Höhe war exzellent, klar, frei und ohne Druck, zugleich ungemein farbenreich”

Reviewed at Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden on 30 April 2022

Wagner, Das Rheingold (Concert performance)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Michael Volle, Wotan

Thomas Lehman, Donner

Issachah Savage, Froh

Gerhard Siegel, Loge

Samuel Youn, Alberich

Thomas Ebenstein, Mime

Stephen Milling, Fasolt

Mikhail Petrenko, Fafner

Jamie Barton, Fricka

Christiane Karg, Freia

Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Erda

Erika Baikoff, Woglinde

Iris van Wijnen, Wellgunde

Maria Barakova, Flosshilde

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

Viennese splendour in Garsington’s Rosenkavalier revival

Roy Westbrook, 28th May

Bruno Ravella's splendid 2021 production of Strauss' opera of Viennese manners returns with a fine cast.

****1

A witty hotel Don Giovanni opens Blackwater Valley Festival

Andrew Larkin, 27th May

Tom Creed’s witty production at Lismore Castle delivers strong singing, sharp comedy and lively orchestral playing, even if the opera’s darker supernatural edges are somewhat diminished.

****1

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Christoph Wurzel

Nach dem Studium der Germanistik, Politikwissenschaft, Philosophie und Musikwissenschaft war Christoph Wurzel lange im pädagogischen Bereich tätig. Er interessiert sich besonders für die gesellschaftlich relevanten Aspekte der Musik. Er lebt in Baden – Baden und schreibt für verschiedene Magazine in Deutschland.

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