Parsifal. B¸hnenweihfestspiel (“stage dedication play”) in three acts.
Author: Gary Hoffman
Wozzeck at ENO
“Man is an abyss. It makes one dizzy to look into it.” So utters Georg B¸chner’s Woyzeck, repeating what was also a recurring motif in the playwright’s own letters.
Britten Sinfonia with Ian Bostridge
Just in case we were not aware that the evening’s programme was ‘themed’, the Britten Sinfonia designed a visual accompaniment to their musical exploration of night, sleep and dreams.
Die Zauberflˆte, Royal Opera
Back for its fourth revival, David McVicar’s 2003 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflˆte has much charm, beauty and artistry.
London: Music under the shadow of Handel
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/london-music-under-the-shadow-of-handel
Kaufmann Wagner
The economics of the recording companies dictate much that is not ideal.
Wagner’s operas were not composed as they were in order to permit the
extraction of bleeding chunks, even on those occasions when strophic song forms
do occur.
Mahler Lieder, Wigmore Hall
In the first of pianist Julius Drake’s three-part series,
‘Perspectives’, our gaze was directed at Gustav Mahler’s eclectic musical
responses to human experiences: from the trauma and distress of anguished love
to the sweet contentment of true friendship, from the agonised introspection of
the artist to the diverse dramas of human interaction.
Kate Lindsey at Glyndebourne
It would seem a logical step for the mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey to take on
the role of the Composer in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos.