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Die Zauberflote, Opera di Roma

Bellissima e originale messa in scena diretta da Damiano Michieletto, questa versione dell'opera Mozartiana vede l'azione collocata in una vecchia scuola. Il percorso iniziatico di Tamino diventa quindi quello di uno scolaro e i vari personaggi si allineano a questo tema con naturalezza. Papageno diventa quindi un bidello, le tre cortigiane delle suore, Sarastro il preside e così via. Il tutto in una scena scarna e impreziosita da una lavanderia lavagna dove appaiono disegni animati che accompagnano l'azione.

Lo spettacolo, originariamente prodotto per il teatro della Fenice nel 2015, rivela ancora tutta la sua originalità e freschezza.

Ottima la conduzione da parte del giovane Maestro Michele Spotti mentre sulle voci un mix di giudizio.

Die Zauberflöte

Musica di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Singspiel in due atti

su libretto di Emanuel Schikaneder

Prima rappresentazione assoluta Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna, 30 settembre 1791

Prima rappresentazione al Teatro Costanzi 16 marzo 1937

Durata: 2 ore e 50 minuti circa. Atto I 65'; intervallo 25'; Atto II 75'

DIRETTORE

 Michele Spotti

REGIA

 Damiano Michieletto

MAESTRO DEL CORO CIRO VISCO

SCENE PAOLO FANTIN

COSTUMI CARLA TETI

LUCI ALESSANDRO CARLETTI

VIDEO ROCAFILM/ROLAND HORVATH

PERSONAGGI INTERPRETI

TAMINO Juan Francisco Gatell / Cameron Becker  14, 17, 19

L’ORATORE Zachary Altman

PAPAGENO Markus Werba / Äneas Humm 14, 17, 19

PAMINA Emőke Baráth / Maria Laura Iacobellis 14, 17, 19

REGINA DELLA NOTTE Aleksandra Olczyk / Aigul Khismatullina 14, 17, 19, 21

SARASTRO John Relyea / Simon Lim 14, 17, 19

PAPAGENA Caterina Di Tonno / Mariam Suleiman* 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

MONOSTATOS Marcello Nardis

PRIMO SACERDOTE / SECONDO ARMIGERO Arturo Espinosa**

SECONDO SACERDOTE / PRIMO ARMIGERO Nicola Straniero*

PRIMA DAMA Ania Jeruc

SECONDA DAMA Valentina Gargano*

TERZA DAMA Adriana Di Paola

*dal progetto “Fabbrica” Young Artist Program del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

**diplomato “Fabbrica” Young Artist Program del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

ORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA

Con la partecipazione della Scuola di Canto Corale del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

ALLESTIMENTO TEATRO LA FENICE DI VENEZIA

IN COPRODUZIONE CON TEATRO DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO

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“Don Giovanni, di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart” aprile 2023″ – I&f RotoWeb Illustrato Arte Cultura Attualità

"Don Giovanni, di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart"

Sul podio della Sala Grande, alla testa dell’Orchestra e del Coro del Maggio, il Direttore emerito a vita Zubin Mehta.

La regia del capolavoro di Mozart, proposto nell’allestimento del Festival di Spoleto, è di Giorgio Ferrara, ripresa da Stefania Grazioli.

Anche l’allestimento, applaudito sia dalla critica che dal pubblico, è quello del Festival di Spoleto, con le scene del tre volte vincitore del Premio Oscar Dante Ferretti e di Francesca Lo Schiavo, i costumi sono di Maurizio Galante, mentre le luci sono curate da Fiammetta Baldiserri.

La compagnia di canto è formata da Luca Micheletti nella parte del protagonista Don Giovanni, Markus Werba nei panni del suo servitore Leporello, Jessica Pratt nel ruolo di Donna Anna, Ruzil Gatin come Don Ottavio, Anastasia Bartoli come Donna Elvira mentre Benedetta Torre interpreta la parte di Zerlina.

Completano il cast Eduardo Martinez come Masetto e Adriano Gramigni nella parte del Commendatore.

Il Maestro del Coro del Maggio è Lorenzo Fratini.

Il 26 aprile 2023 la prova generale è stata offerta in anteprima al pubblico Under 30 che ha gremito la sala e ha tributato un calorosissimo “tifo da stadio” al Maestro Mehta e a tutti gli interpreti.

La conferenza stampa di presentazione e avvenuta oggi 27 aprile 2023 al Teatro del Maggio alla presenza del Maestro Zubin Mehta e della compagnia al completo.

Riccardo Rescio

Firenze 27 aprile 2023

Italia&friends Toscana Italia&friends I&f Arte Cultura Attualità

Teatro del Maggio Ministero della Cultura Ministero del Turismo Città di Firenze Cultura Regione Toscana Fondazione CR Firenze

Elena Tempestini Etpress Comunication

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Markus Werba and Ashley Emerson as Papageno and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte (Met 2017)

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Musical crushes...

As someone accustomed to going to live music on a regular basis, going four months without it has felt punitive. I know so many musicians who survive by gigging, relying on income from playing frequently. So the withdrawal I feel as a listener must feel even more restricted on performers.

As a not-fully-satisfactory substitute, I have been watching a lot of concerts online. I enjoyed the Bang On A Can Marathon in June, and enjoyed some really exciting performances - even when Nico Muhly broke the internet midway through the event. The finale, featuring Terry Riley in an appropriately psychedelic visual environment, provided a particularly sweet conclusion to the day’s activity. 

I’ve also spent a lot of time enjoying concerts (and ballets and operas) from Europe, which seems to have a better handle on the whole streaming phenomenon than U.S. orchestras (though our friends in Detroit have been doing a bang-up job!). Watching concerts online, with cameras capable of getting up-close to the performers onstage, had resulted in a number of crushes on key players that I didn’t know before, but whom I look forward to seeing and hearing more in the future.

Let’s start with the folks at the Berlin Philharmonic. The Berlin Phil decided to make its online concert archive (ordinarily a paid subscription) free for a month. So I had a great time listening to programs there, and found a number of the players to be quite adorable. High among these is 1st principal cellist Bruno Delepelaire, who began his career in France before migrating to Berlin. He was featured in solos a number of times, I I’d gladly watch him play anytime. 

The same goes for his colleague in the viola section, Amihai Grosz, who again had a distinguished career before getting to the Philharmonic.

Germans love titles, so I was amused that the hunky bass trombone player in Berlin was one of the few musicians designated as “Professor.” Stefan Schulz has a full-time teaching position, and is a composer as well as a trombonist.

But Berlin wasn’t the only orchestra I spent time watching. The Rotterdam Philharmonic did a wonderful performance of the Mahler Fifth, with their conductor, Yannick Nezet-Seguin. I then watched the same ensemble perform the Mahler Eighth, and promptly fell for baritone soloist Markus Werba. I am apparently not alone in this: he appears prominently on the “bari-hunk” websites, and there are plenty of pictures of him online shirtless (and then some). He can sing in my shower anytime...

And on the topic of opera, I might mention that the new conductor-in-chief of the Amsterdam Opera is the lovely and talented Lorenzo Viotti.

I’m sorry if I sound like a dirty old man here, turning these high culture websites into cruising scenes, but think of it as compensation for what is lost from the live experince of hearing music. Since I’m denied the true presence and sound of live music, the least I can do is enjoy the physical attractiveness of the musicians. And I will resist the temptation to extol the beauty of youth, and simply note that violist Matthew Lipman is originally from Chicago, and he provided one of the most enjoyable aspects of some programs on Live from Lincoln Center...Play on, my boy, play on.

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Connolly (x3), Stutzmann, Invernizzi, Mingardo

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

I’m really, really looking forward to the deferred broadcast of Sarah Connolly’s recital with Malcolm Martineau at last summer’s Schubertíada Vilabertran. Repertoire includes songs by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Eisler, Korngold, Copland, and Britten. Tuesday, March 20 on Catalunya Música. (Note: airs very early in the morning for those of us in the Americas.)

Nathalie Stutzmann both sings in and conducts a concert of works by Vivaldi, Lully, and Rameau. With the ensemble Orfeo 55. Tuesday, March 20 on RTS Espace 2. 

This will be luxury: the Rotterdam Philharmonic’s performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, a.k.a. the “Symphony of a Thousand,” is set for video livestreaming with a standout cast of vocal soloists: Angela Meade, Erin Wall, Erin Morley, Sarah Connolly, Mihoko Fujimura, Michael Schade, Markus Werba, and Christof Fischesser. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Friday, March 23 on Medici.tv.

The Rotterdam Phil will then take their Mahler 8 on road to Brussels, whence it will be broadcast live on the radio. Same cast as above. Saturday, March 24 on Klara.

I don’t think I’m familiar with the Scarlatti Stabat Mater but the fact that Roberta Invernizzi and Sara Mingardo are singing it together has caught my attention. Saturday, March 24 on NPO Radio 4.

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also apparently it’s Mozart Week at Vienna and here’s the lineup:

Sunday, February 7, 2021, 7:00 p.m. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (performance of February 4, 2021) Opera buffa in four acts Musical direction: Philippe Jordan Production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle With among others: Andrè Schuen, Federica Lombardi, Philippe Sly, Louise Alder, Virginie Verrez Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 7:00 p.m. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DON GIOVANNI (performance of November 1, 2015) Dramma giocosa in two acts Musical direction: Adam Fischer Production: Jean-Louis Martinoty With, among others: Mariusz Kwiecien, Erwin Schrott, Marina Rebeka, Juliane Banse, Benjamin Bruns Wednesday, February 10, 2021, 7:00 p.m. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart LA CLEMENZA DI TITO (performance of April 4, 2016). Dramma serio per musica in two acts Musical direction: Adam Fischer Production: Jürgen Flimm With among others: Benjamin Bruns, Caroline Wenborne, Margarita Gritskova, Hila Fahima, Miriam Albano Thursday, February 11, 2021, 7:00 p.m. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (performance of February 4, 2021) Opera buffa in four acts Musical direction: Philippe Jordan Production: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle With among others: Andrè Schuen, Federica Lombardi, Philippe Sly, Louise Alder, Virginie Verrez Friday, February 12, 2021, 7:00 p.m. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart THE MAGIC FLUTE (performance of January 4, 2015) Opera in two acts Musical direction: Adam Fischer Production: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier With among others: Benjamin Bruns, Olga Bezsmertna, Íride Martínez, Markus Werba, Annika Gerhards Saturday, February 13, 2021, 7:00 p.m. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (performance from October 12, 2020) German Singspiel in three acts Musical direction: Antonello Manacorda Production: Hans Neuenfels With among others: Lisette Oropesa, Christian Nickel, Regula Mühlemann, Emanuela von Frankenberg, Stella Roberts, Daniel Behle, Michael Laurenz, Christian Natter, Ludwig Blochberger, Goran Jurić.

(they also did Idomeneo last week instead for some reason but I did catch it and it was very strangely edited and the production concept was strange but Idamante was very cute) (also the very cute Idamante is playing Sesto in the Clemenza) (also this is like the third time they’ve changed the streaming date for Nozze so I hope this one sticks)

https://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/en/staatsoper/media/detail/news/current-streaming-schedule/

(Final note: they do make you log into an account to watch now but it’s still free and you just need a username and password)

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Die Fledermaus

Dopo l’impegno e la grandiosità che hanno segnato l’apertura di stagione dell’Andrea Chénier di Giordano, il Teatro alla Scala sceglie la leggerezza per il secondo atto della propria programmazione. Sotto la briosa direzione di Cornelius Meister e con la convincente regia di Cornelius Obonya, Die Fledermaus non mostra i segni dell’età e mantiene tutta la propria freschezza

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Sa, 21. Okt 2017 | 19:30 Uhr

Philharmonie Berlin

BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem op. 45

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller | Sopran

Markus Werba | Bariton

Rundfunkchor Berlin

Berliner Philharmoniker

Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Dirigent

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Papageno appreciation post

Markus Werba as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte (Met Opera 2017), with Golda Schultz as Pamina, Charles Castronovo as Tamino, and Ashley Emerson as Papagena

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Ann Hallenberg in recital; Mozart and Bruckner with notable casts

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Ann Hallenberg and Mats Widlund’s recital at the Teatro de la Zarzuela is scheduled for live broadcast on Tuesday. Their program includes works by Johannes Brahms, Clara Schumann, Nikolai Medtner, Gunnar de Frumerie and Gustav Mahler. Tuesday, October 10 on Radio Clásica.

This one’s for Val: the live Met audio broadcast of Mozart’s The Magic Flute can be heard on Tuesday with a cast including Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night), Golda Schultz (Pamina), Charles Castronovo (Tamino), Markus Werba (Papageno), and Tobias Kehrer (Sarastro). Tuesday, October 10 on the Met Opera website.

I’m not that into Bruckner but any program involving Sandrine Piau will at least catch my eye. She sings in Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 in F Minor along with Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Toby Spence, Thomas Oliemans, the Balthasar Neumann Choir, and the Basel Symphony Orchestra. Thursday, October 12 on SRF 2 Kultur. 

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After Riccardo Chailly opens the season with Tosca, continuing the cycle of works by Puccini, he will conduct his first Strauss opera, as well as the complete Beethoven symphonies. Zubin Mehta will conduct two Verdi operas as well as Luigi Nonno’s Intolleranza which will be performed at La Scala for the first time. Handel’s Semele will also receive its first staged performance at the theatre. There are fifteen operas in the 2019-2020 season, of which eleven are new productions.

Anna Netrebko will open the season in Tosca on 7 December, but strangely the tenor has not yet been confirmed. Backstage voices say that the Russian diva is pressing for her husband, Yusif Eyvazov, to be given the role.

After the popularity over the last couple of years, the opening of the season will again be transmitted live on Italy’s main television channel, Rai1.

The recital series, listed below, features Matthias Goerne, Erwin Schrott, Aleksandra Kurzak, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Bejun Mehta, Marina Rebeka, and Sabine Devieilhe.

OPERA SEASON 2019-2020

Anna Netrebko, photo Dario Acosta

  4 December 2019 Young People’s Preview

7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22 December 2019; 2, 5, 8 January 2020

Giacomo Puccini

TOSCA

Conductor Riccardo Chailly

Director Davide Livermore

Sets Giò Forma

Costumes Gianluca Falaschi

Lighting Antonio Castro

  Cast

Tosca Anna Netrebko / Saioa Hernández (2, 5, 8 Jan.), Cavaradossi (to be announced),

Scarpia Luca Salsi, Angelotti Vladimir Sazdovski, Sagrestano Alfonso Antoniozzi,

Spoletta Carlo Bosi, Sciarrone Giulio Mastrototaro

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  Diana Damrau

  15, 18, 21, 26, 30 January; 2, 13, 16 February 2020

Charles Gounod

ROMÉO ET JULIETTE

Conductor Lorenzo Viotti

Director Bartlett Sher

Sets Michael Yeargan

Costumes Catherine Zuber

Lighting Jennifer Tipton

  Cast

Juliette Diana Damrau, Roméo Vittorio Grigolo,

Frère Laurent Nicolas Testé, Mercutio Mattia Olivieri, Stéphano Marina Viotti,

Le Comte Capulet Frédéric Caton, Tybalt Ruzil Gatin, Gertrude Sara Mingardo,

Le Comte Paris Edwin Fardini, Le Duc Jean-Vincent Blot

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

Production from The Metropolitan Opera, New York

  Violeta Urmana

  6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 23, 26, 29 February; 6 March 2020

Giuseppe Verdi

IL TROVATORE

Conductor Nicola Luisotti

Director and Set Design Alvis Hermanis

Costumes Eva Dessecker

Lighting Gleb Filshtinsky

Video Designer Ineta Sipunova

  Cast

Leonora Liudmyla Monastyrska, Manrico Francesco Meli,

Il conte di Luna Massimo Cavalletti, Azucena Violeta Urmana,

Ferrando Gianluca Buratto/Riccardo Fassi

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala (co-production Salzburger Festspiele)

  Rosa Feola, photo Todd Rosenberg

  22, 25, 28 February; 4, 13, 15, 17, 19 March 2020

Gioachino Rossini

IL TURCO IN ITALIA

Conductor Diego Fasolis

Director Roberto Andò

Sets and Lighting Gianni Carluccio

Costumes Nanà Cecchi

  Cast

Selim Alex Esposito, Donna Fiorilla Rosa Feola, Don Narciso Edgardo Rocha,

Prosdocimo Mattia Olivieri, Don Geronio Giulio Mastrototaro,

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  Riccardo Chailly, photo Brescia e Amisano

  8, 11, 14, 18, 21, 25, 27, 31 March 2020

Richard Strauss

SALOME

Conductor Riccardo Chailly

Director Damiano Michieletto

Sets Paolo Fantin

Costumes Carla Teti

Lighting Alessandro Carletti

Choreography Thomas Wilhelm

  Cast

Salome Malin Byström, Herodes Roberto Saccà, Herodias Anna Maria Chiuri,

Jochanaan Michael Volle, Narraboth Attilio Glaser, Nazarener Thomas Tatzl

  Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

    Daniele Gatti, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

  4, 7, 10, 14, 18, 21, 24 April 2020

Claude Debussy

PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE

Conductor Daniele Gatti

Director Matthias Hartmann

Sets Volker Hintermeier

  Cast

Pelléas Bernard Richter, Mélisande Patricia Petibon, Golaud Markus Werba,

Arkel Nicolas Testé, Geneviève Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo,

Le petite Yniold Caterina Sala, Un medecin/Berger Vladimir Sazdovski

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  Tannhauser, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

  23, 26, 30 April; 3, 7, 10, 24, 27 May 2020

Richard Wagner

TANNHÄUSER

Conductor Ádám Fischer

Director Carlus Padrissa / La Fura dels Baus

Sets Roland Olberter

Costumes Chu Uroz

Video Designer Franc Aleu

  Cast

Tannhäuser Peter Seiffert, Elisabeth Krassimira Stoyanova / Dorothea Röschmann (24, 27 May),

Wolfram von Eschenbach Christian Gerhaher / Markus Werba (24, 27 May),

Walter von der Vogelweide Martin Piskorski, Venus Daniela Sindram, Hermann Albert Dohmen,

Biterolf Florian Spiess, Heinrich der Schreiber Sascha Emanuel Kramer,

Reinmar von Zweter Chi Hoon Lee

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

Produzione Teatro alla Scala

  Ferruccio Furlanetto

  17, 20, 23, 26, 29 May; 4, 10 June 2020

Italo Montemezzi

L’AMORE DEI TRE RE

Conductor Carlo Rizzi

Director Àlex Ollé / La Fura dels Baus

Sets Alfons Flores

Costumes Lluc Castells

Lighting Marco Filibeck

  Cast

Archibaldo Ferruccio Furlanetto, Manfredo Roberto Frontali, Avito Giorgio Berrugi,

Fiora Federica Lombardi, Flaminio Giorgio Misseri

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  Mario Martone, photo Brescia e Amisano

  3, 6, 9, 13, 17, 22, 25, 30 June 2020

Umberto Giordano

FEDORA

Conductor Daniel Oren

Director Mario Martone

Sets Margherita Palli

Costumes Ursula Patzak

Lighting Pasquale Mari

  Cast

Fedora Sonya Yoncheva, Loris Roberto Alagna,

Olga Mariangela Sicilia, De Siriex Massimo Cavalletti, Barone Rouvelle Marco Ciaponi,

Boroff Costantino Finucci, Grech Vladimir Sazdovski

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  Gabriele Salvatores, photo by Brescia e Amisano

  20, 23, 26 June; 2, 7, 10, 13, 16 July 2020

Giuseppe Verdi

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA

Conductor Zubin Mehta

Director Gabriele Salvatores

Sets Gian Maurizio Fercioni

  Cast

Riccardo Fabio Sartori, Amelia Saioa Hernández, Renato Luca Salsi,

Ulrica Violeta Urmana, Oscar Julie Martin Du Theil,

Silvano Liviu Holender, Samuel Fabrizio Beggi, Tom Emanuele Cordaro

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  La traviata with Marina Rebeka and Leo Nucci, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

  11, 14 July 2020;

12, 14, 17, 20, 22, 25 November 2020

Giuseppe Verdi

LA TRAVIATA

Conductor Zubin Mehta / Michele Gamba

Director Liliana Cavani

Sets Dante Ferretti

Costumes Gabriella Pescucci

Lighting Marco Filibeck

Choreography Micha van Hoecke

  Cast

Violetta Valéry Marina Rebeka (11, 14 July) / Angel Blue,

Alfredo Germont Francesco Meli (11, 14 July) / Charles Castronovo,

Giorgio Germont Leo Nucci (11, 14 July) / Plácido Domingo (12, 14 Nov.) /

George Petean (17, 20, 22, 25 Nov.)

  Chorus, Orchestra and Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala

Produzione Teatro alla Scala

  Il viaggio a Reims, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

  1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 22, 25 September 2020

La Scala Accademia Project

Gioachino Rossini

IL VIAGGIO A REIMS

Conductor Paolo Carignani

Director Luca Ronconi

Sets Gae Aulenti

Costumes Giovanna Buzzi

Lighting Marco Filibeck

  Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala Academy

Production Rossini Opera Festival di Pesaro and Teatro alla Scala

  Cecilia Bartoli, photo by Uli Weber

  17, 19, 21, 23, 26, 28, 30 October 2020

Georg Friedrich Händel

SEMELE

Conductor Gianluca Capuano

Director Robert Carsen

Sets e Costumes Patrick Kinmonth

Lighting Robert Carsen e Peter van Praet

Coreografia Philippe Giraudeau

  Cast

Semele Cecilia Bartoli, Jupiter/Apollo Ian Bostridge,

Athamas Max Emanuel Cencic, Juno Sara Mingardo

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  Zubin Mehta, photo Brescia e Amisano

  29, 31 October; 2, 4, 8, 11 November 2020

Arnold Schönberg

ERWARTUNG

The Woman Camilla Nylund

  Luigi Nono

INTOLLERANZA 1960

Cast

Un emigrante Giorgio Berrugi, La sua compagna Camilla Nylund,

Una donna Anna Maria Chiuri, Un algerino Simone Piazzola, Un torturato Dario Russo

  Conductor Zubin Mehta

Director Damiano Michieletto

Sets Paolo Fantin

Costumes Carla Teti

Lighting Alessandro Carletti

  Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  Daniela Barcellona

  10, 13, 18, 21, 24, 27, 29 November 2020

Amilcare Ponchielli

LA GIOCONDA

Conductor Ádám Fischer

Director Davide Livermore

Sets Giò Forma

Costumes Mariana Fracasso

  Cast

La Gioconda Saioa Hernández, Laura Adorno Daniela Barcellona,

Enzo Grimaldo Francesco Meli, Barnaba Luca Salsi, Alvise Badoero Roberto Tagliavini,

La cieca Judit Kutasi, Zuane Fabrizio Beggi

  Chorus, Orchestra and Ballet Company of Teatro alla Scala

New Production Teatro alla Scala

  Aleksandra Kurzak, photo Andrzej Swietlik

Bejun Mehta, photo by Marco Boggreve

Marina Rebeka, photo Janis Deinats

Matthias Goerne, photo Marco Borggreve

Sabine Devieilhe, photo Fabien Monthubert

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Recital Season

3 December 2019

Matthias Goerne

Piano

Leif Ove Andsnes

Schumann

  26 January 2020

Erwin Schrott

Piano

Giulio Zappa

  23 February 2020

Aleksandra Kurzak

Piano

Julius Drake

Viola

Tomasz Wabnic

Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and Strauss

  15 March 2020

Ekaterina Semenchuk

Piano

Semion Skigin

Glinka and Musorgsky

  19 April 2020

Bejun Mehta

Piano

Jonathan Ware

Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Britten, and Mahler

  27 October 2020

Marina Rebeka

Piano

Giulio Zappa

Rachmaninov, Bellini, and Verdi

  9 November 2020

Sabine Devieilhe

Piano

Alexandre Tharaud

Debussy, Poulenc, Fauré, and Ravel

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La Scala, Milan: Opera and Recital Season 2019 – 2020 After Riccardo Chailly opens the season with Tosca, continuing the cycle of works by Puccini, he will conduct his first Strauss opera, as well as the complete Beethoven symphonies.

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ΚΑΣΤΟΡΙΑ - ΟΠΕΡΑ: «Ο Μαγικός Αυλός του Mozart» - Δωρεάν για όλους τους μαθητές, με πρωτοβουλία του Λάζαρου Ζήση

Το Σάββατο 14 Οκτωβρίου στις 19:55 σε ζωντανή μετάδοση από την Νέα Υόρκη, από τον Όμιλο ΑΝΤ1 σε συνεργασία με την Κοινωφελή Επιχείρηση του Δήμου Καστοριάς ΟΡΕΣΤΕΙΑΣ, στο αμφιθέατρο του ΤΕΙ Καστοριάς. Ο επίτιμος μαέστρος της Met James Levine διευθύνει την παραγωγή της βραβευμένης με Tony Award Julie Taymor, στο αριστούργημα του Mozart«Ο Μαγικός Αυλός». Η Golda Schultz κάνει το ντεμπούτο της στη Met ως Παμίνα, με την Kathryn Lewek στο ρόλο της Βασίλισσας της Νύχτας, τον Charles Castronovo σαν τον πρίγκιπα του παραμυθιού Ταμίνο, τον Markus Werba σαν τον κυνηγό πουλιών Παπαγκένο, τον Christian Van Horn σαν Αφηγητή και τον René Pape σαν Ζαράστρο. «Ο Μαγικός Αυλός» ήταν η καθοριστική παράσταση με την οποία ξεκίνησε το 2006 το πρόγραμμα TheMet: LiveinHD, όταν προβλήθηκε σε μια συντομευμένη εκδοχή στα αγγλικά για οικογένειες. Αυτή είναι η πρώτη φορά που η ολόκληρη η γερμανική όπερα θα μεταδοθεί στη σειρά Livein HD. Τιμές εισιτηρίων: 15,00 € κανονικό εισιτήριο. 10,00 € μαθητικό, φοιτητικό, ανέργων και ΑΜΕΑ. 7,5 € το άτομο (15,00 € για δύο άτομα) με το κουπόνι «1+1 της ΟΔΟΥ», του φύλλου 905, που θα κυκλοφορήσει την Πέμπτη 12 Οκτωβρίου 2017, ισχύει για 15 διπλά εισιτήρια και είναι απαραίτητη η δήλωση ονοματεπώνυμου στη εφημερίδα (ΟΔΟΣ, Μητροπόλεως 4, β’ όροφος, τηλ. 2467029638, e-mail: odos-kst@otenet.gr) η οποία θα καταρτίσει ονομαστικό εκπτωτικό κατάλογο. Η παράσταση θα προβληθεί με ελληνικούς υπότιτλους, στο αμφιθέατρο του ΤΕΙ Καστοριάς, από την Κοινωφελή Επιχείρηση του Δήμου Καστοριάς Ορεστειάς. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες μπορείτε να απευθύνεστε στο γραφείο της κοινωφελούς επιχείρησης του Δήμου Καστοριάς «Ορεστειάς» Αθ. Διάκου 1 (πάρκο “Ολυμπιακής φλόγας”) τηλ. 2467026777. Ο Πρόεδρος της Κοινωφελούς Επιχείρησης του Δήμου Καστοριάς «Ορεστειάς», Λάζαρος Ζήσης, ��ροσκαλεί όλους τους μαθητές να παρακολουθήσουν δωρεάν την Όπερα «Ο Μαγικός Αυλός» του Mozart. Η παράσταση θα προβληθεί με ελληνικούς υπότιτλους στο αμφιθέατρο του ΤΕΙ Καστοριάς το Σάββατο 14 Οκτωβρίου 2017 στις 19:55 σε ζωντανή μετάδοση από τη Νέα Υόρκη.

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RICHARD WAGNER’S DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG AT LA SCALA, APRIL 5, 2017

I'll state right away that this Meistersinger experience (a first for me) was a pretty disorienting one. First and foremost, it's strange of Richard Wagner to deliver such a work. I can't say I wasn't warned; every single piece of writing on Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg points out it's an outlier: the only Wagner comedy (there would be Das Liebesverbot, but…), the only Wagner mature opera with a real/historical setting and no sign of supernatural activity whatsoever… I knew it all right by the time the curtain raised. The problem is, it's much punchier in the flesh. At times I was like, please give me a dragon. Some angry god, a wicked spell. I'll even settle for a small-time prophecy, but I need it now… It was that severe. (It's not like I crave sorcerers, myth, and fairies no matter what. Given I can't erase the hours I spent in the company of Der Ring des Nibelungen and Tristan und Isolde, everything about Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg—subject, music, words—is at risk of feeling… what's the word… small). At the same time, this opera generates a great many questions. Is it a deliberate detour, a sort of intermezzo in the middle of a long string of serious numbers? Was it meant to be a dissertation on the very nature of art? And what are we supposed to do with the German art thing that pops up during Hans Sachs's final outburst? I think it would take a lot of time—and it would be fun, as well—to discuss these topics. Unfortunately, Harry Kupfer's staging (created in Zürich in 2012; scenes by Hans Schavernoch, costumes by Yan Tax, lights by Jürgen Hoffmann) was the opposite of a catalyst for any kind of discussion.

It just embraced the lively/joyous side of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, placing it somewhere between Hogwarts and a very tame version of Broadway. That's it. (It also looked like someone in the costume/makeup/hair department has seen Manhattan [the WGN America series about the Manhattan Project] and is having a crush on Rachel Brosnahan, 'cause the master singers' female apprentices were dead ringers for the character she plays). The orchestra conducted by Daniele Gatti was crisp, energetic, and colorful; yet I'd say their effort was ultimately hampered by (if partly responsible for) a lack of dramatic depth. There were beautiful details (as an example, the horns' interventions were both forceful and perfectly even), and there were memorable moments too. The Prelude came off as a fiery, luminous stand-alone extravaganza. The great wacky brawling sequence that closes Act II (a fugue) put on another massive, exuberant wall of sound. The Prelude to Act III—I loved its brooding cellos and double basses. And I was captivated by the dreamy Act III quintet «Selig, wie die Sonne», which I thought was definitely reminiscent of Der Rosenkavalier. As for the cast, I liked the relatively laid-back approach of Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Hans Sachs) and Markus Werba (Sixtus Beckmesser). Jacquelyn Wagner was sweet and elegant as Eva, but my favorite performance of the night was Anna Lapkovskaja's in the smaller role of Magdalene: her mesmerizing, original phrasing was a natural showstopper, and left me wanting for more.

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Fr, 20. Okt 2017 | 20:30 Uhr

Philharmonie Berlin

BRAHMS Ein deutsches Requiem op. 45

Hanna-Elisabeth Müller | Sopran

Markus Werba | Bariton

Rundfunkchor Berlin

Berliner Philharmoniker

Yannick Nézet-Séguin | Dirigent

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opera men who ruin my life

Ildar Abdrazakov

Markus Werba

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Upcoming performances by Dame Sarah Connolly

[NOTE: this post is now out of date. Check the schedule tag on my blog for the most recent version of this list.]

After the jump: an unofficial schedule of Dame Sarah Connolly’s future performances. Those of you in Britain may catch a performance in London, Nottingham, Oxford, Gloucester, Lewes, Cheltenham, or Painswick, or possibly a public masterclass in Aldeburgh. Those on the Continent may see her in Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, or Vilabertran (Catalunya). And finally, those of us in North America have engagements in New York and Philadelphia to look forward to! Plus, Dame Sarah's agency has mentioned future performances in Paris and Madrid, though no details are available yet. Don’t live near one of these places? Take in a concert from afar: I am adding online broadcast and livestream details as they become available.

This is not an authoritative list. These are the upcoming performances by Dame Sarah Connolly that I have been able to learn about from Dame Sarah's website (not currently being updated), her agent's website (Askonas Holt), Operabase, Bachtrack, Dame Sarah's Twitter, and generally ferreting around the web.

I sometimes list concerts that are not yet officially confirmed; you should of course check official sources before making plans and be aware that cast changes and cancellations can happen at any time.

I have added links to venue, ticketing, and broadcast information where available. Tips on new information are always welcome! Please contact me via email (verdiprati [at] selveamene [dot] com), Tumblr messaging, or ask box (plain prose only in the ask box; anything with links or an email address will get eaten by Tumblr filters) with corrections or additions.

Handel, Ariodante (title role) at the Wiener Staatsoper, February 24 and 26 and March 1, 4, and 8, 2018. With Chen Reiss (Ginevra), Hila Fahima (Dalinda), Christphe Dumaux (Polinesso), Rainer Trost (Lurcanio), and Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Il Re di Scozia). In a new production directed by David McVicar with music is supplied by Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie. Note: although Christie, LAF, and many of the soloists from this Ariodante will be performing the opera in a concert tour following its staging in Vienna, Dame Sarah is not scheduled to join them; Kate Lindsey has been announced to take over the title role for the tour.

[Broadcast] The opening night performance, February 24, is scheduled for live radio broadcast on OE1. It will also be carried live by Radio Clásica in Spain and possibly other European radio stations that I have not run across yet.

[Livestream] The opera is scheduled for video livestreaming on Sunday, March 4. There is a fee of €14 to watch the livestream.

Schubert, “Zögernd leise” in a Mothering Sunday concert at Gloucester Cathedral, March 11, 2018. With the Girl Choristers of Gloucester Cathedral; conducted by Nia Llewelyn Jones. This concert is just an hour long altogether and the one song Dame Sarah is scheduled to sing runs about five or six minutes, but it’s one of my favorite pieces I’ve heard her sing live—she’s like a storyteller in this song—and the £16 ticket price a) is pretty affordable and b) includes “a glass of pink fizz.”

Mahler, Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand” at de Doelen, Rotterdam, March 23 and 25, 2018. With the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The other soloists are Angela Meade, Erin Wall, Erin Morley, Mihoko Fujimura, Michael Schade, Markus Werba, and Christof Fischesser. On choral duty are the Groot Omroep Koor, Rotterdam Symphony Chorus, Orfeon Donostiarra, and Nationaal Kinderkoor. UPDATE: Dame Sarah, citing illness in a tweet, withdrew from all three performances with the Rotterdam Phil and was replaced by Michelle DeYoung.

[New! Broadcast] The March 23 performance will be broadcast in live video by Medici.tv. My understanding is that the video will be available for “limited replay” to those with free accounts on the service and “unlimited replay” to those with paid accounts.

Mahler, Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand” at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, March 24, 2018. With the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; same details as the Rotterdam performances listed above. UPDATE: Dame Sarah, citing illness in a tweet, withdrew from all three performances with the Rotterdam Phil and was replaced by Michelle DeYoung.

[Broadcast] I found a web page saying that all concerts at the 2018 Klarafestival can be followed live on the Klara radio station (“Tot slot zijn ook dit jaar alle concerten van Klarafestival live te volgen op radiozender Klara”); I should be able to confirm the Klara broadcast schedule closer to the time. UPDATING just slightly to add: although I can’t find a page specifically for the Mahler 8 broadcast, I can confirm that “Klara Live - Klarafestival” is appearing in the relevant slot of the program grid for March 24.

[Masterclasses] Public masterclasses for the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh, England, March 26, 27, 28, and 30. Part of a course on Handel’s Theodora to be co-taught with conductor Christian Curnyn. Although this doesn’t really count as a performance by Sarah Connolly, I am adding it to my “unofficial schedule” of her work with the thought that fans who live in the area might want to attend some of the public masterclasses Sarah Connolly will be co-teaching or the culminating performance on March 31 by young artists she will have coached.

Verdi, Requiem at the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham, April 28, 2018. With Elizabeth Llewellyn, Gywn Hughes Jones, Wojtek Gierlach, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The chorus will be supplied by Nottingham Trent University, where Dame Sarah was awarded an honorary doctorate of music in July of 2017. 

Recital at St Mary’s Church, Painswick, Glos., May 12, 2018. With Joseph Middleton; sponsored by the Painswick Music Society. Works to include songs by Vaughan Williams, Gurney, Parry, Howells, Holst, Britten, Tippett, “and others,” as well as the premiere of a new song cycle by Sally Beamish.

Handel, Giulio Cesare (title role) at Glyndebourne, June 10 through July 28, 2018. In a revival of the legendary 2005 production by David McVicar, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by William Christie. With Joélle Harvey as Cleopatra, plus Christophe Dumaux and Patricia Bardon reprising the roles of Tolomeo and Cornelia respectively; also starring Anna Stéphany (Sesto), John Moore (Achilla), and Kangmin Justin Kim (Nireno).

Bach, cantata selections in a concert with Mahan Esfahani at the Cheltenham Music Festival, July 1, 2018. Specifically, Dame Sarah is scheduled to sing “arias from Bach’s cantatas Widerstehe doch der Sünde and Ich habe genug and a complete performance of Vergn��gte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust,” according to the festival website.

[New!] Recital for the Cheltenham Music Festival at the Pittville Pump Room, July 4, 2018. With Joseph Middleton. They will be performing “a survey of composers from the Royal College of Music,” including songs by Stanford, Parry, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Gurney, Howells, Bridge, Britten, and Tippett. Tickets go on sale to the public April 4. 

[New details!] Recital at the Schubertíada Vilabertran, August 18, 2018. With pianist Malcolm Martineau and viola player Jonathan Brown. Repertoire includes songs by Brahms, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder, and a selection of traditional English songs. 

Wagner, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre (Fricka in both) at the Royal Opera, London, September 24 through October 28, 2018. A revival of Keith Warner’s Ring Cycle, with Antonio Pappano conducting. For cast and date details, see the ROH web pages linked above. As of this writing, the ROH is only allowing customers to purchase tickets for an entire cycle of the four operas; I’m not sure whether they’ll allow separate booking later. Curiously, two performances of Die Walküre—but none of Das Rheingold (nor of the other two operas)—are marked “Filming” on the ROH website. Do we have a Walküre webcast or DVD to look forward to? Or is Pappano gathering clips for a future documentary? I do not know.

Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde at the Royal Festival Hall, London, September 29, 2018. With Stuart Skelton and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. In a concert with Mitsiko Uchida playing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27.

Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde at the Philharmonie Berlin [PDF], October 14, 2018. With Torsten Kerl and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

[New! Broadcast] The concert listing on the RSB website includes a notation “Konzert mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur,” implying (I believe) that it will be broadcast on said radio station.

[New! Details TBA] Appearance with the Oxford Lieder Festival, sometime in the range October 12-27, 2018. I can’t find any details on the OLF website as of this writing, but a story published by The Ocelot and presumably based on an OLF press release promises that Dame Sarah will be among the artists involved with the 2018 festival. 

Concert with the Tenebrae Consort at Wigmore Hall, London, October 24, 2018. Part of Dame Sarah’s yearlong residency at the Wigmore. Repertoire TBA. Listed in the season preview brochure [PDF].

[New!] Blow, Venus and Adonis and Purcell, Dido and Aeneas in concert at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, November 3, 2018. With the Early Opera Company conducted by Christian Curnyn. Dame Sarah’s co-stars are Jonathan McGovern, Lucy Crowe, Susan Bickley, and Rowan Pierce. Tickets go on sale June 1. 

[New!] Tippett, A Child of our Time at the Paris Philharmonie, November 7 and 8, 2018. With Michelle Bradley, Mark Padmore, John Relyea, and the Orchestre de Paris conducted by Thomas Adès in a concert also featuring symphonic works by Berlioz and Adès.

Ravel song recital at Wigmore Hall, London, November 16, 2018. With James Newby and Joseph Middleton. Part of a Ravel song series being presented by the Wigmore over the course of the year. Listed in the season preview brochure [PDF].

[New!] Recital with Julius Drake at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, March 5, 2019. Works by R. Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, A. Mahler, and Zemlinsky. 

Recital with Julius Drake at Wigmore Hall, London, March 15, 2019. Part of Dame Sarah’s yearlong residency at the Wigmore. Repertoire TBA, but may have some works in common with those programmed for Connolly and Drake’s other recitals in the same month. Listed in the season preview brochure [PDF].

[New!] Recital with Julius Drake at the Kimmel Center, Philadelphia, March 22, 2019. Sponsored by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Repertoire includes works by Brahms, Wolf, Roussel, Debussy, and Zemlinksy. 

[New!] Wagner, Götterdämmerung (Waltraute) at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, April 27, May 4, and May 11, 2019. In a revival of Robert Lepage’s production of the Ring cycle, with all shows to be conducted by Philippe Jordan. Dame Sarah’s co-stars in Götterdämmerung include Christine Goerke (Brünnhilde), Stefan Vinke / Andreas Schager (sharing the role of Siegfried), Edith Haller (Gutrune), Eric Owens (Hagen), Evgeny Nitikin (Gunther), and Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich).

Recital with Malcolm Martineau at Wigmore Hall, London, July 23, 2019. Part of Dame Sarah’s yearlong residency at the Wigmore. Repertoire TBA. Listed in the season preview brochure [PDF].

[Details TBA] Future appearances at the Opéra national de Paris and the Teatro Réal in Madrid are mentioned in the current bio that can be downloaded from Dame Sarah’s page on the Askonas Holt website (click “Publicity Pack”). 

Previous versions of this list can be found under the schedule tag on this blog. This version published on February 10, 2018. Edited February 15 to add the Scubertíada Vilabertran, the Met Götterdämmerung, and the Elgar concert at the Barbican. Edited February 16 to delete the Elgar concert at the Barbican after clarifying with Dame Sarah’s agent that the listing was erroneous. Edited February 27 to add the Concertgebouw double header of English baroque operas in concert. Edited February 28 to add the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society link. Edited March 1 to add the Concertgebouw recital with Julius Drake and fill in more details on the Philadelphia recital. Edited March 8 to add details to the Vilabertran recital and to add the Tippett piece with the Orchestre de Paris. Edited March 10 to confirm the appearance of the Klara Festival on the Klara program schedule for March 24. Edited March 17 to add the recital with Joseph Middleton at the Cheltenham Music Festival, the broadcast note on the Berlin Das Lied, and the Medici.tv livestream of Mahler 8. Edited March 26 to correct a typo in one of the Cheltenham Music Festival entries (I had mistakenly placed both concerts on the same day, July 1) and to belatedly reflect Dame Sarah’s withdrawal from the Rotterdam Philharmonic Mahler 8 concerts. Edited April 4 to add the Oxford Lieder Festival. I may continue to edit this list as I receive new information.