Florian Boesch and Roger Vignoles at the Wigmore Hall in Ernst Krenek’s Reisebuch aus den ˆsterreichischen Alpen. Matthias Goerne has called Hanns Eisler’s Hollywooder Liederbuch the Winterreise of the 20th century. Boesch and Vignoles showed how Krenek’s Reisebuch is a journey of discovery into identity at an era of extreme social change. It is a parable, indeed, of modern times.
Year: 2015
Anna Bolena at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago’s new Anna Bolena, a production shared with Minnesota Opera, features a distinguished cast including several notable premieres.
San Diego Celebrates 50th Year with La BohËme
On Tuesday January 27, 2015, San Diego Opera presented Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme. It is the opera with which the company opened in 1965 and a work that the company has faithfully performed every five years since then.
English Pocket Opera Company: Verdi’s Macbeth
Last year we tracked Orfeo on his desperate search for his lost Euridice, through the labyrinths and studio spaces of Central St Martin’s; this year we were plunged into Macbeth’s tragic pursuit of power in the bare blackness of the CSM’s Platform Theatre.
BÈla BartÛk: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
BÈla BartÛk’s only opera, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, composed in 1911 and based upon a libretto by the Hungarian writer BÈla Bal·zs, was not initially a success.
Katia Kabanova in Toulon
K·?a Kabanov· is, they say, Jan·?ek’s first mature opera — it comes a mere 20 years after his masterpiece, Jen?fa.
Peter Grimes in Nice
Nice’s golden winter light is not that of England’s North Sea coast. Nonetheless the OpÈra de Nice’s new production of Peter Grimes did much to take us there.