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Opera Today : Tristan in Seattle Opera Today : Tristan in Seattle HOME COMMENTARY FEATURED OPERAS NEWS FT Reviews La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein, Châtelet, Paris REPERTOIRE By Francis Carlin Published: October 11 2004 03:00 REVIEWS | Last updated: October 11 2004 03:00 Were the ABOUT Brits in the audience the only ones to get the CONTACT allusion? Felicity Lott's Grand Duchess is... LINKS Cecilia Bartoli at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris La réhabilitation pour Salieri Au TCE, Cecilia Bartoli se fait l'éblouissante avocate d'un musicien dont la postérité retiendra avant tout les soupçons d'empoisonnement sur la personne de Mozart : Antonio Salieri. Elle consacre l'intégralité d'un récital à celui que Gluck... Le Monde Reviews Messiaen's "Saint François 15 Aug 2010 Subscribe to d'Assise" Opera Today La mise en apesanteur divine de "Saint François Receive articles and d'Assise", SDF de la foi LE MONDE | 08.10.04 | news via RSS feeds or 15h02 A l'Opéra Bastille, les tableaux franciscains Tristan in Seattle email subscription. d'Olivier Messiaen par Stanislas Nordey. Avec cette Feature Articles nouvelle production du Saint-François d'Assise de Seattle, the city of software and Starbucks, is also a Messiaen -... summer site for serious Wagnerites. "La Voix Humaine" at Vremena Goda Festival Voznesenskaya - only too human by Neil McGowan Best known for its regular Ring cycle, the Seattle Richard Wagner: Tristan und La Voix Humaine (concert performance) Vremena Opera presents other Wagner operas in the off Isolde Goda Festival Vremena Goda Orchestra/Bulakhov 29 September 2004 Bringing down the curtain on the years. The high quality of this summer’s Isolde: Annalena Persson; Tristan: Clifton Forbis; Vremena Goda Festival this year was the Festival's performance of Tristan und Isolde is a tribute to Brangäne: Margaret Jane Wray; first-ever operatic offering -... the company’s seriousness of purpose. While King Marke: Stephen Milling; Kurwenal: Greer Grimsley; Moscow Times: Entering the Ring perhaps not quite a match for its legendary 1998 Melot: Jason Collins; George Loomis reports on Wagner opera, Russian- Tristan, in which Jane Eaglen and Ben Heppner Shepherd/Sailor: Simeon Esper; style. By George Loomis Published: October 8, 2004 Steersman: Barry Johnson. debuted in the title roles, it nonetheless presents Conductor: Asher Fisch. Stage Last spring the Metropolitan Opera gave three Director: Peter Kazaras. Set and complete cycles of Richard Wagner's four-opera as strong a cast as one is likely to encounter Costume Designer: Robert saga, "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the anywhere today. Israel. Lighting Designer: Duane Nibelung). It was business... Schuler. Above: Annalena Persson as FT Reviews Tamerlano Clifton Forbis is that rarest of singers: a genuine Isolde and Clifton Forbis as Tamerlano, Opéra de Lille By Francis Carlin dramatic Heldentenor whose clarion top rests on Tristan Published: October 6 2004 03:00 | Last updated: October 6 2004 03:00 There should be a golden rule a dark baritonal base. If his voice seems a bit All photos by Rozarii Lynch courtesy of Seattle Opera for producers: don't make life difficult for yourself less supple than in his impressive 2005 Geneva and the audience. In Lille's magnificently Rough Guide to the performance (available on DVD), it is now more restored... Opera 4 solidly grounded. On August 4, despite lingering Le Figaro on Charpentier Festival indisposition, he displayed hardly a single Printer Version FESTIVAL Marc-Antoine Charpentier à Ambronay moment of technical insecurity. While somewhat Triomphe de la jeunesse Gérard Corneloup [30 septembre 2004] En cette année du bicentenaire de restrained in Act I, perhaps by design, he Send to a Friend la mort de Marc-Antoine Charpentier, occasion trumpeted the Act III high notes with apparent NJ's Premier unique de le sortir de l'ombre que lui fait encore ease—as if, in the Birgit Nilsson tradition, he Opera Co. Lully, le festival d'Ambronay... could sing it all over again. (The performance Opera Today Store Professional opera FROSCH at Innsbruck performances in was shorn of the Act II “Tag und Nacht” Walter Felsenstein Die Frau ohne Schatten, Tiroler Landstheater, Edition Cranford, NJ. Innsbruck By Larry L Lash Published: September 29 segment, a standard Seattle cut, but Act III was Various Artists, F... www.pinedalyric.com 2004 03:00 | Last updated: September 29 2004 New $115.97 performed complete—more than many Tristans Best $115.83 03:00 It was a strange match: Richard Strauss's sing.) Throughout there were moments of hugest, most difficult opera - with one of the largest... genuine musical and dramatic insight. While Mozart's Opera Exclusive Idomeneo those with a historical perspective might Verdi, Guleghina, Full-size, Color Die Walküre at the Met ... Die Walküre, Metropolitan Opera, New York By quibble, calling here and there for clearer New $46.47 Facsimile of Martin Bernheimer Published: September 28 2004 diction, subtler phrasing, gentler pianos, warmer Best $43.98 Mozart's 03:00 | Last updated: September 28 2004 03:00 For timbre, or deeper psychological insight—who Autograph the past couple of decades at the Metropolitan Manuscript Opera, Die Walküre was the exclusive property of today sings a finer Tristan? Maria Callas ~ mozart.packhum.org Complete Studio James Levine,... Recor... Annalena Persson Giacomo Puccini, V... http://www.operatoday.com/content/2010/08/tristan_in_seat.php[8/16/2010 2:57:22 PM] Opera Today : Tristan in Seattle Want to See FT Reviews La Rondine La Rondine, New York City Opera By Martin as Isolde New $160.98 Wagner Opera Best $102.33 But Can't Find Bernheimer Published: September 27 2004 03:00 | Last updated: September 27 2004 03:00 La Rondine Your Favourite? Much anticipation Icon certainly isn't Puccini's easiest or most successful Mario Sereni, Tito... We Can Help. surrounded the New $26.98 opera. Completed in 1917, it flutters - sometimes Best $15.87 Check Our Pages elegantly, sometimes... American debut of Now. Annalena Persson. www.BachTrack.com Andrew Patner Reviews Don Giovanni at the Lyric Opera The young Swedish Rossini Don Giovanni, Lyric Opera, Chicago By Andrew soprano sang the Rossini, Corbelli,... Patner Published: September 21 2004 03:00 | Last Like Libretto updated: September 21 2004 03:00 A half century role of Isolde to Looking for Like ago, a trio of twentysomething operaphiles offered acclaim at the Libretto? Find Chicago what they dubbed a "calling card" Welsh National exactly what you production of Mozart's... want today. Opera in 2006, Yahoo.com Faust in Hong Kong where Seattle Faust, Hong Kong Cultural Centre By Ken Smith Published: September 20 2004 13:25 | Last impresario Speight Jenkins signed her up. (The updated: September 20 2004 13:25 Hong Kong's local press hints that she is slated as Seattle’s opera lovers, lacking a full-time opera house and 2013 Brünnhilde as well.) Young, blonde, comely gaining a standing company only in the past year, have... and, by Wagnerian standards, slim, Persson Privacy Information looks the part. Her silvery voice has edge and FT Reviews The Greek Passion The Greek Passion, Royal Opera House, London By brilliance that can project, despite some lack of Andrew Clark Published: September 17 2004 03:00 warmth and heft, through a Wagnerian orchestra. At times she is a thrilling | Last updated: September 17 2004 03:00 All human interpreter, particularly at moments of anger and excitement, such as the life is here: prayer and pageant, self-sacrifice and self-righteousness, humour and hypocrisy, feast and Act I Narration and Curse—especially where the orchestration is light. But famine. Opera... the role of Isolde overstretches her vocal resources. On sustained (particularly rising) tones in the upper middle part of the voice, the voice FT Reviews Tobias and the Angel Tobias and the Angel, English Touring Opera, St weakens and the vibrato widens dangerously. The “Liebestod,” almost John's Church, London By David Murray Published: entirely comprised of such passages sung against full orchestra, was thus September 16 2004 03:00 | Last updated: September 16 2004 03:00 The composer Jonathan anti-climactic. Dove may have called his Tobias, now touring cathedrals and churches,... The secondary roles were all taken by Seattle favorites, to great effect. Stephen Milling nearly stole the show with a moving König Marke. His rich FT Reviews LA Opera's Ariadne auf Naxos Ariadne auf Naxos Music Center, Los Angeles By bass effortlessly filled the hall, and his German diction was exemplary. Allan Ulrich Published: September 15 2004 03:00 | Margaret Jane Wray is gaining attention these days, consistently singing Last updated: September 15 2004 03:00 William major roles at the Met. To judge from her Brangäne here, the spreading Friedkin's mounting of the Strauss-von Hoffmannsthal comedy handsomely and wittily fame is well-deserved. Hers is a soprano approach to this Zwischenfach role, confirms the general director Plácido Domingo's slightly steely at the top, but clearly projected and delivered, with plenty of belief... volume. Greer Grimsley, Seattle’s resident Wotan, made a more convincing Le Figaro Reviews Pelléas et Mélisande at Palais Kurwenal for being understated and elegant wherever possible. Jason Garnier Debussy tout feu tout glace La critique de Jacques Collins plays a forceful Melot, Simeon Esper a sweet Shepherd/Sailor, and Doucelin [15 septembre 2004] Une salle qui tousse Barry Johnson a fine Steersman. à gorge déployée en été, hors de toute épidémie de grippe, au mieux manque d'attention, au pire Clifton Forbis as Tristan s'ennuie. Voilà le résultat du transfert... FT: Ariadne auf Naxos, Welsh National Opera, Seattle’s Principal Guest Conductor Asher Cardiff Ariadne auf Naxos, Welsh National Opera, Cardiff Fisch is not one to pepper this score with By Richard Fairman Published: September 14 2004 excessive accelerandos, overweighty accents, or 03:00 | Last updated: September 14 2004 03:00 bloated brass.
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