#gregory kunde

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twice a man, gregory markopoulos 1963

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Gregory Kunde as Vere in Billy Budd (Wiener Staatsoper, 2024)

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Opera on YouTube 6

Pagliacci

Franco Enriques studio film, 1954 (Franco Corelli, Mafalda Micheluzzi, Tito Gobbi; conducted by Alfredo Simonetto; no subtitles)

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1961 (Mario del Monaco, Gabriella Tucci, Aldo Protti; conducted by Giuseppe Morelli; Japanese subtitles)

Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1968 (Jon Vickers, Raina Kabaivanska, Peter Glossop; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Franco Zeffirelli film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons; conducted by Georges Prêtre; English subtitles) – Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI

Metropolitan Opera, 1994 (Luciano Pavarotti, Teresa Stratas, Juan Pons; conducted by James Levine; Spanish subtitles)

Ravena Festival, 1998 (Plácido Domingo, Svetla Vassileva, Juan Pons; conducted by Riccardo Muti; Italian subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2009 (José Cura, Fiorenza Cedolins, Carlo Guelfi; conducted by Stefano Ranzani; no subtitles)

Chorégies d'Orange, 2009 (Roberto Alagna, Inva Mula, Seng-Hyoun Ko; conducted by Georges Prêtre; French subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2011 (Marcello Giordani, Angeles Blancas, Vittorio Vitelli; conducted by Daniele Callegari; English subtitles – ignore the silly references to Norse mythology and aliens that the translator threw in, they're not in the actual libretto)

Latvian National Opera, 2019 (Sergei Polyakov, Tatiana Trenogina, Vladislav Sulimsky; conducted by Jānis Liepiņš; no subtitles)

Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Dresden State Opera, 1977 (Armin Ude, Carolyn Smith-Meyer, Barbara Sternberer, Rolf Tomaszewski; conducted by Peter Gülke; no subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 1980 (Francisco Araiza, Edita Gruberova, Reri Grist, Martti Talvela; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1988 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielson, Lillian Watson, Kurt Moll; conducted by Georg Solti; English subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1989 (Deon van der Walt, Inga Nielson, Lillian Watson, Kurt Rydl; conducted by Horst Stein; no subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1991 (Stanford Olsen, Luba Orgonasova, Cyndia Sieden, Cornelius Hauptmann; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; French subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1989 (Kurt Streit, Aga Winska, Elzbieta Szmytka, Artur Korn; conducted by Nicolaus Harnoncourt; Hungarian subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Teatro della Pergola, 2002 (Rainer Trost, Eva Mei, Patrizia Ciofi, Kurt Rydl; conducted by Zubin Mehta; Spanish subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2012 (Christoph Strehl, Diana Damrau, Olga Peretyatko, Franz-Josef Selig; conducted by Ivor Bolton; Catalan subtitles)

Bankhead Theatre, 2018 (David Walton, Alexandra Batsios, Elena Galvan, Kevin Langan; conducted by Alex Katsman; English subtitles)

Theatro São Pedro, 2023 (Daniel Umbelino, Ludmilla Bauerfeldt, Ana Carolina Coutinho, Luiz-Ottavio Faria; conducted by Cláudio Cruz; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Un Ballo in Maschera

Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, 1967 (Carlo Bergonzi, Antonietta Stella, Mario Zanassi; conducted by Oliviero di Fabritiis; Spanish subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1975 (Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Claudio Abbado, English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1978 (Luciano Pavarotti, Mara Zampieri, Piero Cappuccilli; conducted by Claudio Abbado; Italian subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1980 (Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Louis Quilico; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; no subtitles)

Royal Swedish Opera, 1986 (Nicolai Gedda, Siv Wennberg, Carl Johan Falkman; conducted by Eri Klas; sung in Swedish; Swedish subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1990 (Plácido Domingo, Josephine Barstow, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)

Leipzig Opera House, 2006 (Massimiliano Pisapia, Chiara Taigi, Franco Vassallo; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; English subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Teatro Regio di Torino, 2012 (Gregory Kunde, Oksana Dyka, Gabriele Viviani; conducted by Renato Palumbo; no subtitles) – Part I, Part II

Chorégies d'Orange, 2013 (Ramón Vargas, Kristin Lewis, Lucio Gallo; conducted by Alain Altinoglu; French subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2014 (Francesco Meli, Hui He, Luca Salsi; conducted by Andrea Battistoni; no subtitles)

Cavalleria Rusticana

Giorgio Strehler studio film, 1968 (Gianfranco Cecchele, Fiorenza Cossotto; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1974 (Franco Tagliavini, Grace Bumbry; conducted by John Nelson; no subtitles)

Franco Zeffirelli film, 1983 (Plácido Domingo, Elena Obraztsova; conducted by Georges Prêtre; no subtitles)

Ravenna Festival, 1996 (José Cura, Waltraud Meier; conducted by Riccardo Muti; Italian subtitles)

Ópera de Bellas Artes, 2008 (Alfredo Portilla, Violeta Dávalos; conducted by Marco Zambelli; Spanish subtitles)

Zürich Opera, 2009 (José Cura, Paoletta Marrocu; conducted by Stefano Ranzani; no subtitles)

Chorégies d'Orange, 2009 (Roberto Alagna, Beatrice Uria-Monzon; conducted by Georges Prêtre; French subtitles)

Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2011 (Marcello Giordani, Ildiko Komlosi; conducted by Daniele Gallegari; Spanish subtitles)

Mikhailovsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 2012 (Fyodor Ataskevich, Iréne Theorin; conducted by Daniele Rustioni; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Younghoon Lee, Elina Garanča; conducted by Graeme Jenkins; English subtitles)

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«Aida» in der Arena von Verona ist ein Erlebnis, aber man sollte schon wissen, worum es auf der Bühne geht

«Aida» in Verona spielt auf einer Bühne aus Glas, die zur Rampe hin abschüssig ist, so dass man die ganze Zeit befürchtet, die Sänger*innen müssten herunterrutschen. (Regie, Bühnenbild, Kostüme, Lichtdesign, Choreographie: Stefano Poda). Eine riesige mechanische Hand, Bruchstücke einer Maschine wie aus «Mad Max», echte Laser und Requisiten, die wie Laserschwerter aus «Star Wars» aussehen, verstärken das sterile, technische Design.

Ob es Generatoren oder Hydraulikpumpen oder Nebelmaschinen sind: Neben der unverstärkten Musik und der sportlichen Gesangsleistung der Sänger*innen hört man immer auch Nebengeräusche der Bühnentechnik, Brummen und Zischen. Das passt ganz gut als Soundeffekt zu der techno-futuristischen Bühne, die ihrerseits einen Kontrast zu der antiken römischen Arena bildet.

Die Regie gestaltet Tableaus aus Bühne, Choreografie und Licht, in denen man kaum ausmachen kann, wer gerade singt. Auf eine glasig-weiße Art schön sind diese Bilder, wenn auch nicht geeignet, um zu zeigen, was im Stück gerade passiert. Wenn Radamès (Gregory Kunde) verhindert, dass Amonasro (Amartuvshin Enkhbat) Amneris (Agnieszka Rehlis) ersticht und sich dann selbst der Palastwache ergibt, wird man das nicht am Bühnengeschehen erkennen, sondern ist auf den gesungenen Text angewiesen. Dafür gibt es auf LED-Leinwänden Übertitel in Italienisch und Englisch.

Wer mitliest, bekommt auch mit, dass Aida (Marta Torbidoni) und Radamès gemeinsam lebendig begraben werden. Zumindest für Aida ist das in Ordnung, sie hat eine romantische Ader. In Verona krabbeln sie dafür in eine kleine Pyramide aus Glas und über ihnen scheint der echte Mond.

«Aida» (Inszenierung 2023) Arena von Verona Festival · Vorstellung vom 20. Juni 2024 Regie, Bühnenbild, Kostüme, Lichtdesign, Choreographie: Stefano Poda; Orchester, Chor, Ballett und Staff der Fondazione Arena di Verona Musikalische Leitung: Marco Armiliato; Besetzung: Marta Torbidoni, Agnieszka Rehlis, Gregory Kunde, Riccardo Fassi, Rafał Siwek, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Riccardo Rados, Francesca Maionchi. arena.it

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Successo per 'Pagliacci' al Teatro Regio di Parma

(ANSA) – PARMA, 08 MAG – Una grande lezione di canto, di stile e di musica: è ciò di sta facendo sfoggio, in questi giorni al Teatro Regio di Parma, Gregory Kunde. Sessantanove anni e non sentirli: il ruolo temutissimo di Canio in Pagliacci, capolavoro del verismo musicale di Ruggero Leoncavallo, in scena dal 5 maggio, è per il tenore americano una sorta di passeggiata. Voce cristallina e pura,…

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I thought it would be weird having a tenor Mephistopheles too but Gregory Kunde was AMAZING and served so much and in the end it wasn’t so strange because his voice really suited how Meph acts in this version.

It does drag a bit in the middle but it starts and ends strong.

Watching Busoni's Doktor Faust and just got through the pact scene and holy fuck is that scene good

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"is my grandson being sufficiently gay with his boyfriend??? okay...we're getting there"

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...that awkward moment when you have to choose between your girlfriend and your boyfriend in front of the entire empire

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Meanwhile, more preparations: Gardiner’s Les Troyens (the best one I’ve seen so far), featuring Graham, Antonacci, Kunde, and Tezier. And they all are brilliant, but Tezier, oh, Tezier in 2003, I cannot resist...

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Rome Opera Season 2022-2023

The Rome Opera season has been announced with nine programmes to be staged during 2022-2023.

Adams Passion – photo by Kristian Kruuser & Kaupo Kikkas The Rome Opera season has been announced with nine programmes to be staged during 2022-2023. Dialogues des Carmélites according to Emma Dante live on Rai5 and Radio3 On Sunday 27 November 2022, the curtain rises on a new production of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites, which has not been at Teatro Costanzi (Rome Opera’s theatre) since…

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LICEU 2020/2021: OTELLO (Kunde-Álvarez-Stoyanova-Pinto-Hernández)

Després del canvi, molt mal explicat però que tothom ha entès, del mestre Frizza, inicialment previst per dirigir les representacions d’Otello d’aquesta temporada pel mestre Dudamel, el preu de les localitats es va disparar de manera escandalosa i potser per això algú ja qualificava aquestes funcions com el millor de la temporada 2020/2021, com si el preu elevat portés associat la qualitat…

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Opera Streams: Early-Mid November 2024

2nd: Wagner's Das Rheingold from La Scala. Featuring Michael Volle, Norbert Ernst, and Christa Mayer. Rental.

2nd: Donizetti's Le Convenienze ed Inconvenienze Teatrali from Wexford Festival Opera. Featuring Sharleen Joynt, Giuseppe Toia, and Paolo Bordogna. Free!

3rd: Britten's Billy Budd from Wiener Staatsoper. Featuring Huw Montague Rendall, Gregory Kunde, and Brindley Sherratt. Free (with login)!

6th: Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment from Opéra de Paris. Featuring Julie Fuchs, Lawrence Brownlee, Lionel Lhote, and Susan Graham. Rental or subscription.

9th: Verdi's La Traviata from Nationaltheater Mannheim. Featuring Seunghee Kho, Sun Min Song, and Nikola Diskić. Free!

Archival alert: On November 13th, Medici is adding a bunch of rarely-filmed Mozart pieces from the 2006 Salzburg Festival.

EDIT: The Met is making all of their Puccini productions FREE to stream for the month of November!

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An alert reader has pointed me to a recent re-appearance of the full Aix Clemenza video on YouTube. Oddly, Tumblr won’t let me post it as a video, but you can try this link.

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Gregory Kunde - La Clemenza di Tito 2011

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Gregory Kunde and Ermonela Jaho in Otello Royal Opera House, 2019 

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Gregory Kunde as Le Prophete at Deutsche Oper Berlin, December 3, 2017

It is undisputably great initiative undertaken by Deutsche Oper Berlin in reviving grand operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer – the success of Les Huguenots last year put very high expectation for this year continuation in Le Prophete. Highly anticipated, previously unseen by me, – and great cast assembled to tell the story. The opera addresses challenges of power, beliefs, values and human choices in…