ENO’s peculiar decision not to stage any Wagner during its 2012-13 season, that is the season in which the greater part of Wagner’s bicentenary falls, is at least mitigated by a new production of The Flying Dutchman during this preceding season.
Category: Reviews
Two from Florence
The double bill of Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy with
Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, currently being presented by the Canadian Opera Company, is a marriage made in heaven, a pair of complementary opposites who seem to belong together.
Manon, Metropolitan Opera
Massenet’s Manon succeeds in the theater when the soprano has
a real sense of the role and how she wants to present it.
Zagreb’s Wagner Casts Its Spell
Croatian National Opera, in collaboration with W¸rzburg’s (Germany) Mainfranken Theater has made quite a forceful case for Parsifal.
Manon Lescaut, Philadelphia
It is Manon month in the Mid-Atlantic states. In New York, the Met is presenting Massanet’s take, while Opera Company of Philadelphia has just opened Puccini’s version: his first successful opera, Manon Lescaut.
Matthias Goerne, Los Angeles
Los Angeles lieder lovers were treated to two extraordinary Schubertian
journeys on April 16th and 18th when bass-baritone Matthias Goerne partnered
with Christian Eschenbach performed the song cycles, Die schˆne
M¸llerin and Winterreise, as part of the Los Angeles
Philharmonic’s celebration of the composer’s 215th birthday.
Der Freisch¸tz, London
The unfashionableness of Der Freisch¸tz in England is a little baffling. In its day, not only was the opera celebrated across Germany, it soon conquered other European stages and indeed theatres worldwide.
Richard Strauss: Salome
An exciting contribution to the discography of this popular opera, the live performance of Richard Strauss’s Salome from the Festspielhaus at Baden-Baden is a compelling DVD.
Show Boat at Lyric Opera of Chicago
Lyric Opera of Chicago has begun with the current season’s production of Show Boat a series of musicals of the American theater to be featured in coming years.