Luisa Miller sits on the fringes of the repertory, and since its introduction into the modern repertory in the 1970’s it comes around every 15 or so years. Unfortunately this 2015 San Francisco occasion has not bothered to rethink this remarkable opera.
Category: Reviews
Salieri: La grotta di Trofonio (Trofonio’s Cave)
Demonised by Pushkin and Peter Shaffer, Antonio Salieri lives in the public
imagination as the embittered rival of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — whose genius
he lamented and revered in equal measure, and against whom he schemed and
plotted at the Emperor Joseph II’s Viennese court.
Chicago Lyric’s Stars Shine at Millennium Park
The annual concert given by Lyric Opera of Chicago as an outdoor event previewing the forthcoming season took place on 11 September 2015 at Millennium Park.
Far in the Heavens — Choral Music of Stephen Paulus
Stephen Paulus provided the musical world, and particularly the choral world, with music both provocative and pleasing through a combination of lyricism and a modern-Romantic tonal palette.
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Orpheus — that Greek hero whose songs could enchant both deities and beasts, whose lyre has become a metaphor for the power of music itself, and whose journey to the Underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice, kick-started the art of opera in Mantua in 1607 — has been travelling far and wide around the UK in 2015.
Vaughan Williams and Holst Double Bill
One is a quasi-verbatim rendering of J.M. Synge’s bleak tale of a Donegal
family’s fateful dependency on and submission to the deathly power of the
sea.
Iestyn Davies at Wigmore Hall
Is there anything that countertenor Iestyn Davies cannot do with his voice?
Prom 75: The Dream of Gerontius
BBC Proms Youth Choir shines in a performance notable for its magical transparency
Prom 67: Bernstein — Stage and Screen
The John Wilson Orchestra have been annual summer visitors to the Royal Albert Hall since their Proms debut in 2009 and, with their seductive blend of technical precision, buoyant glitziness and relaxed insouciance, their concerts have become a hugely anticipated fixture and a sure highlight of the Promenade season.
Prom 65: Alice Coote sings Handel
Disappointing staging mars Alice Coote’s vibrant if wayward musical performance