Category: German opera

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde »

By James L Zychowicz
Reprinted with permission from Seen and Heard – Music Web’s Live Opera, Concert and Recital Reviews.
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) Lyric Opera Center Chicago 31.1.2009 (JLZ)
Production:
Director: José María Condemi
Stage, Set and Costume Design: David Hockney
Lighting: Duane Schuler
Chorus Master: Donald Nally
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis
Cast:
Isolde: [...]

Strauss, Elektra »

By Bernard Jacobson
Reprinted with permission from Seen and Heard – Music Web’s Live Opera, Concert and Recital Reviews.
Seattle Opera, soloists, cond. Lawrence Renes, dir. Chris Alexander, set designer Wolfram Skalicki, costume designer Melanie Taylor Burgess, lighting designer Marcus Doshi, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, 18, 19, & 29. 10. 2008 (BJ)
It is too easy, in [...]

Primitive Russia Stakes Its Claim On Wagner’s Ring »

Richard Wagner, May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883
If one of Valery Gergiev’s objectives has been to keep the Mariinsky Theater’s version of Wagner’s Ring in the minds of the operatic public, he certainly has accomplished his goal. The performance schedule that he and set designer, Georgy Tsypin, have followed since the production debuted in [...]

Richard Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle’ at the Mariinsky – a great opera company forsakes tradition »

In October, 2006, the Kirov Opera and Ballet will come to the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa CA. Billed as the “Mariinsky Festival,” the company will play for three weeks, starting with the Kirov’s production of Richard Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” The following observations were recorded about the Valery Gergiev and [...]

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    The articles on Rigoletto, L'Elisir d'amore, Khovanshchina, Macbeth, Boris Godunov, La Forza del destino and Wagner's Ring Cycle were first published in Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA, Vol 33, 2004.

    The articles Primitive Russia Stakes Its Claim on Wagner's Ring, The Mariinsky Invasion and The Mariinsky's Boris Godunov Hits Its Mark were published in Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA, Vol 34, 2006-2007.

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