This Winterreise is the final instalment of Matthias Goerne’s series of Schubert lieder for Harmonia Mundi and it brings the Matthias Goerne Schubert Edition, begun in 2008, to a dark, harrowing close.
Year: 2014
Mary, Queen of Heaven, Wigmore Hall
O Maria Deo grata — ‘O Mary, pleasing to God’: so begins Robert Fayrfax’s antiphon, one of several supplications to the Virgin Mary presented in this thought-provoking concert by The Cardinall’s Musick at the Wigmore Hall.
Analyzed not demonized — Tristan und Isolde, Royal Opera House
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Royal Opera House, first revival of the 2009 production, one of the first to attract widespread hostility even before the curtain rose on the first night.
Florencia in el Amazonas Makes Triumphant Return to LA
On November 22, 2014, Los Angeles Opera staged Francesca Zambello’s updated version of Florencia in el Amazonas.
John Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary
John Adams and his long-standing collaborator Peter Sellars have described The Gospel According to the Other Mary as a ‘Passion oratorio’.
A new Yevgeny Onegin in Zagreb — Prince Gremin’s Fabulous Pool Party
Superb conducting from veteran Croatian maestro Niköa Bareza makes up for an absurd waterlogged new production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece.
Nabucco in Novi Sad
After the horrors of Jagoö Markovi?’s production of Le Nozze di
Figaro in Belgrade, I was apprehensive lest Nabucco in Serbia’s
second city of Novi Sad on 27th October would be transplanted from
6th century BC Babylon to post-Saddam Hussein Tikrit or some
bombed-out kibbutz in Beersheba.
La BohËme in San Francisco
First Toronto, then Houston and now San Francisco, the third stop of a new production of Puccini’s La bohËme by Canadian born, British nurtured theater director John Caird.