Adventures in knitting: Ariadne in Bodø

By Aksel Tollåli, 22 March 2017

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“Kirsten Flagstad was a regular dressing room knitter”

Reviewed at Stormen Konserthus, Bodø on 19 March 2017

Strauss R., Ariadne auf Naxos

Arctic Opera

Christian Kluxen, Conductor

Katharina Jakhelln Semb, Director

Susanne Münzner, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Lise Davidsen, The Primadonna (Ariadne)

Shiri Hershkovitz, Zerbinetta

Adrian Angelico, Composer

Thomas Ruud, The Tenor (Bacchus)

Julia Iwaszkiewicz, Naiad

Marianne Folkestad Jahren, Echo

Siv Iren Misund, Dryad

Peter Wulfsberg Moen, Brighella, Dancing Master

Gunnar Andor Nieland, Harlequin, Wigmaker, Lackey

Nils Johnson, The Major-Domo

Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra

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

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

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

Garsington’s new La traviata ticks every musical and dramatic box

David Karlin, 27th May

Music Director Douglas Boyd conducts a performance of exceptional musical quality, and Louisa Muller's uncontroversial but passionate direction makes this Traviata one for the ages.

*****

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Aksel Tollåli

Aksel is currently studying towards a degree in musicology at the University of Oslo. At the moment he is an exchange student at Goldsmiths College in London. He is also a choral singer and a trombonist. His musical interests include 20th-cenury French music, Baroque opera and the music of Richard Strauss.

Adventures in knitting: A sensationally sung Ariadne auf Naxos in Bodø