Northern Lights Festival: Julia Novikova

By Jaime Robles, 31 January 2014

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Reviewed at Arctic Cathedral / Tromsdalen Kirke, Tromsø on 28 January 2014

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492: Giunse al fin il momento

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492: Voi che sapete

Mozart, Don Giovanni, K527: Vedrai, carino

Mozart, Don Giovanni, K527: Non mi dir

Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K620: Ach! Ich fühl's

Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K384: Ach, ich liebte, war so glücklich

Mozart, Serenade no. 13 in G major, "Eine kleine Nachtmusik", K525

Mozart, Symphony no. 41 in C major, "Jupiter”, K551

Works by Debussy

Works by Schumann

Works by Strauss R.

Works by Rachmaninov

Gounod, Romeo et Juliette: Je veux vivre (Juliet's Waltz)

Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Piangerò la sorte mia

Julia Novikova, Soprano

Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra

Martynas Staškus, Conductor

Sergej Osadchuk, Piano

Don Giovanni: Plácido Domingo fulfills a dream in Prague

Frank Kuznik, 27th October

The King of Opera leads an inspired performance commemorating the 230th anniversary of Don Giovanni.

*****

Komische Oper Berlin's Flute is indeed magic

Zerbinetta, 25th May

Die Zauberflöte is a work whose outward simplicity masks internal complexity and even contradictions. Mozart’s music is childishly tuneful and yet reaches for the classically sublime; Emmanuel Schikaneder’s libretto alternates a magical quest story out of a German storybook with Masonic claptrap and secondhand Voltaire.

****1

La Bohème illumine l’Opéra des Nations de Genève

Thomas Muller, 21st December

Cette belle Bohème de Puccini au Théâtre des Nations de Genève vous tire des larmes à coup sûr, tout au long de ces deux heures de musique sublime portée par des artistes investis.

****1

Pour l'amour de la patrie

Anne-Laure Faubert, 31st January

Dernier opéra de Rossini créé en 1829 à l’Opéra de Paris, Guillaume Tell s’inspire d’une légende du Moyen-Âge et de la tragédie de Schiller. Il permet au compositeur de livrer en creux un message politique, celui d’une Italie libérée du joug des Habsbourg.

****1

Ouverture de la saison lyrique à Toulouse

Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 30th September

Le monde musical toulousain poursuit sa rentrée avec le premier opéra de la saison du Théâtre du Capitole : Un ballo in maschera de Giuseppe Verdi.

***11

A special relationship renewed: Leonard Slatkin returns to Prague

Frank Kuznik, 16th April

Leonard Slatkin returns to the Prague Symphony Orchestra with one of his own pieces, a Schubert tribute that steals the show.

****1

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Jaime Robles

Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.

Filling the Northern Lights with song: Soprano Julia Novikova performs in Tromsø