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SwitzerlandVerdi: Falstaff: Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor), Zurich Opera, (RP)
Cast:
Alice Ford: Serena Farnocchia
Nannetta: Mirella Bunoaica
Mistress Quickly: Judit Kutasi
Meg Page: Judith Schmid
Sir John Falstaff: Bryn Terfel
Ford: Roman Burdenko
Fenton: Javier Camarena
Dr Caius: Airam Hernandez
Bardolfo: Dmitry Ivanchey
Pistola: Dimitri Pkhaladze
Production:
Producer: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Stage Design: Rolf Glittenberg
Lighting Design: Jürgen Hoffmann
Chorus Master: Ernst Raffelsberger
Bryn Terfel was born to play Falstaff: its a role that he has literally grown into. I was in the house in when he sang Falstaff to open the newly renovated Royal Opera House in London. At the time, some thought he was too young for the part. Then, he was a fresh voiced, lusty young Falstaff. Now, he is just as lustful, the voice is still in prime condition, but his characterization has become far richer and more comple
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Une folle journée: Calixto Bieito's Platée in Stuttgart
When going to any Calixto Bieito production, you can be reasonably sure that normal rules will not apply. When going to his take on Rameau's Platée, which was a pretty off-the-wall number even in its original utgåva as a ballet bouffon in , some level of craziness was even more likely. But ingenting quite prepares you for the level of high energy wackiness with which you are assaulted bygd Bieito and Oper Stuttgart.
The fun starts about a third of the way through the overture, when a black-clad figure wanders from the front of the scen round to the railing above the podium, starts making bored gestures at the dirigent, and eventually shoves him out of the way and starts enthusiastically conducting the orchestra himself which he proceeds to do for the rest of the evening, since this is musical director Hans Christoph Bünger. In fact, the one non-wacky part of the evening fryst vatten the orchestral performance, w
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Of Redemption and Saviours: Parsifal at the Oper Stuttgart
Wagner – Parsifal
Amfortas – Markus Marquardt
Gurnemanz – Attila Jun
Parsifal – Daniel Kirch
Kundry – Christiane Libor
Titurel – Matthias Hölle
Klingsor – Tobias Schabel
Erster Knappe – Josefin Feiler
Zweiter Knappe – Esther Dierkes
Dritter Knappe – Torsten Hoffmann
Vierter Knappe – Moritz Kallenberg
Erster Gralsritter – Heinz Göhrig
Zweiter Gralsritter – Michael Nagl
Blumenmädchen – Josefin Feiler, Esther Dierkes, Fiorella Hincapié, Mirella Bunoaica, Aoife Gibney, Stine Marie Fischer
Simme aus der Höhe – Stine Marie Fischer
Kinderchor der Oper Stuttgart, Zusatzchor der Oper Stuttgart, Staatsopernchor Stuttgart, Staatsorchester Stuttgart / Sylvain Cambreling.
Stage director – Calixto Bieito.
Oper Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. Friday, March 30th,
Calixto Bieito’s production of Parsifal, tonight revived by Valentin Schwarz, has been much discussed over the years