Festival: Edinburgh International FestivalFrom today| Date | Event | Composers, Works, Performers |
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| Saturday 10-Aug-13 07:15pm |
 Edinburgh Festival TheatreFidelio Edinburgh International Festival |
Opéra de Lyon Erika Sunnegårdh, Soprano: Leonore Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Florestan Michael Eder, Bass: Rocco Pavlo Hunka, Bass-baritone: Don Pizarro Andrew Schroeder, Bass: Don Fernando Karen Vourc'h, Soprano: Marzelline Christian Baumgartel, Tenor: Jaquino Kazushi Ono, Conductor |
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| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Saturday 10-Aug-13 07:15pm Imprisoned and tortured for threatening to expose the barbarity of a brutal regime, political prisoner Florestan has little hope left. Only a daring feat of heroism by his loyal wife Leonore can offer him a chance of escape – and of justice.Image credit: Stofleth Erika Sunnegårdh, Soprano: Leonore Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Florestan Michael Eder, Bass: Rocco Pavlo Hunka, Bass-baritone: Don Pizarro Andrew Schroeder, Bass: Don Fernando Karen Vourc'h, Soprano: Marzelline Christian Baumgartel, Tenor: Jaquino Kazushi Ono, Conductor | ||
| Monday 12-Aug-13 07:15pm |
Edinburgh Festival Theatre Fidelio Edinburgh International Festival |
Opéra de Lyon Erika Sunnegårdh, Soprano: Leonore Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Florestan Michael Eder, Bass: Rocco Pavlo Hunka, Bass-baritone: Don Pizarro Andrew Schroeder, Bass: Don Fernando Karen Vourc'h, Soprano: Marzelline Christian Baumgartel, Tenor: Jaquino Kazushi Ono, Conductor |
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| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Monday 12-Aug-13 07:15pm Imprisoned and tortured for threatening to expose the barbarity of a brutal regime, political prisoner Florestan has little hope left. Only a daring feat of heroism by his loyal wife Leonore can offer him a chance of escape – and of justice.Image credit: Stofleth Erika Sunnegårdh, Soprano: Leonore Nikolai Schukoff, Tenor: Florestan Michael Eder, Bass: Rocco Pavlo Hunka, Bass-baritone: Don Pizarro Andrew Schroeder, Bass: Don Fernando Karen Vourc'h, Soprano: Marzelline Christian Baumgartel, Tenor: Jaquino Kazushi Ono, Conductor | ||
| Saturday 24-Aug-13 07:15pm |
Edinburgh Festival Theatre Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle Edinburgh International Festival |
Oper Frankfurt Murrihy, Paula, Soprano: Dido Kateryna Kasper, Soprano: Belinda Elizabeth Reiter, Soprano: 2nd Woman Martin Wölfel, Mezzo-soprano: Sorceress Roland Schneider, Soprano: 1st Enchantress Dmitry Egorov, Mezzo-soprano: 2nd Enchantress Peter Marsh, Tenor: Spirit Sebastian Geyer, Tenor: Aeneas Peter Marsh, Tenor: Sailor Robert Hayward, Bass-baritone: Bluebeard Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano: Judith |
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| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Saturday 24-Aug-13 07:15pm Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle Desire, obsession and doomed love: Oper Frankfurt’s striking double bill brings together two one-act operas separated by more than 200 years of musical history, yet united in their searing explorations of human relationships.Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is a poignant masterpiece of early English opera that features some of the composer’s most heartfelt music. After reluctantly falling in love with the warrior Aeneas as he travels home from the Trojan Wars, Dido is brutally rejected when he is later deceived into leaving her. Bartók’s hugely powerful opera Bluebeard’s Castle depicts the tragic Judith obsessively opening a series of mysterious doors in her recently betrothed’s castle to discover the fate of his former wives. In a sumptuous score, Bartók paints vivid musical pictures of the castle’s sinister rooms, while also conveying the psychological subtleties of his two protagonists. The daring, visually arresting productions by Australian director Barrie Kosky combine intimacy and grandeur, and conductor Constantinos Carydis leads an exceptional cast of acclaimed soloists. Image credit: Monika Rittershaus Murrihy, Paula, Soprano: Dido Kateryna Kasper, Soprano: Belinda Elizabeth Reiter, Soprano: 2nd Woman Martin Wölfel, Mezzo-soprano: Sorceress Roland Schneider, Soprano: 1st Enchantress Dmitry Egorov, Mezzo-soprano: 2nd Enchantress Peter Marsh, Tenor: Spirit Sebastian Geyer, Tenor: Aeneas Peter Marsh, Tenor: Sailor Robert Hayward, Bass-baritone: Bluebeard Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano: Judith | ||
| Sunday 25-Aug-13 07:15pm |
Edinburgh Festival Theatre Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle Edinburgh International Festival |
Oper Frankfurt Murrihy, Paula, Soprano: Dido Kateryna Kasper, Soprano: Belinda Elizabeth Reiter, Soprano: 2nd Woman Martin Wölfel, Mezzo-soprano: Sorceress Roland Schneider, Soprano: 1st Enchantress Dmitry Egorov, Mezzo-soprano: 2nd Enchantress Peter Marsh, Tenor: Spirit Sebastian Geyer, Tenor: Aeneas Peter Marsh, Tenor: Sailor Robert Hayward, Bass-baritone: Bluebeard Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano: Judith |
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| Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh EH8 9FT, United Kingdom Sunday 25-Aug-13 07:15pm Dido and Aeneas and Bluebeard's Castle Desire, obsession and doomed love: Oper Frankfurt’s striking double bill brings together two one-act operas separated by more than 200 years of musical history, yet united in their searing explorations of human relationships.Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is a poignant masterpiece of early English opera that features some of the composer’s most heartfelt music. After reluctantly falling in love with the warrior Aeneas as he travels home from the Trojan Wars, Dido is brutally rejected when he is later deceived into leaving her. Bartók’s hugely powerful opera Bluebeard’s Castle depicts the tragic Judith obsessively opening a series of mysterious doors in her recently betrothed’s castle to discover the fate of his former wives. In a sumptuous score, Bartók paints vivid musical pictures of the castle’s sinister rooms, while also conveying the psychological subtleties of his two protagonists. The daring, visually arresting productions by Australian director Barrie Kosky combine intimacy and grandeur, and conductor Constantinos Carydis leads an exceptional cast of acclaimed soloists. Image credit: Monika Rittershaus Murrihy, Paula, Soprano: Dido Kateryna Kasper, Soprano: Belinda Elizabeth Reiter, Soprano: 2nd Woman Martin Wölfel, Mezzo-soprano: Sorceress Roland Schneider, Soprano: 1st Enchantress Dmitry Egorov, Mezzo-soprano: 2nd Enchantress Peter Marsh, Tenor: Spirit Sebastian Geyer, Tenor: Aeneas Peter Marsh, Tenor: Sailor Robert Hayward, Bass-baritone: Bluebeard Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano: Judith | ||
| Friday 30-Aug-13 07:15pm |
King's Theatre, Edinburgh American Lulu Edinburgh International Festival |
Scottish Opera Angel Blue, Soprano: Lulu Jacqui Dankworth, Voice: Eleanor Donald Maxwell, Bass: Dr Bloom Robert Winslade Anderson, Bass: Clarence Jonathan Stoughton, Tenor: Jimmy Paul Curievici, Tenor: The Painter Simon Wilding, Bass: Athlete Gerry Cornelius, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Paul Reeves, Bass: Professor/Bass: Banker/Bass: Commissioner |
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| King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 2 Leven Street, Edinburgh EH3 9, United Kingdom Friday 30-Aug-13 07:15pm American Lulu Seductress, victim, manipulator: Lulu lives off men as both tortured and torturer, purveyor of ecstasy and angel of death. Caught up in greedy games and seedy schemes, and surrounded by lovers driven to despair, Lulu makes an inexorable rise to the highest levels of power, money and fame. But her descent is just as swift. Twenty years on, as the scarred Lulu looks back on her life, she faces a squalid history of sex, murder and violence. Award-winning Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has radically reworked Alban Berg’s unfinished 1934 opera for the 21st century, setting it against the backdrop of the US civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s and transporting audiences to the smoky jazz clubs of the Deep South. Neuwirth re-interprets Berg’s score for a jazz-inspired ‘Las Vegas’-style ensemble while also integrating her own distinctive voice to make a sound world that casts new light on the whole opera. This new production is conducted by leading contemporary music specialist Gerry Cornelius and staged by the acclaimed British director John Fulljames, with The Orchestra of Scottish Opera. A co-production with The Opera Group, Scottish Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele and Young Vic in association with the London Sinfonietta. Co-commissioned by The Opera Group and Komische Oper Berlin. Image credit: AKA Angel Blue, Soprano: Lulu Jacqui Dankworth, Voice: Eleanor Donald Maxwell, Bass: Dr Bloom Robert Winslade Anderson, Bass: Clarence Jonathan Stoughton, Tenor: Jimmy Paul Curievici, Tenor: The Painter Simon Wilding, Bass: Athlete Gerry Cornelius, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Paul Reeves, Bass: Professor/Bass: Banker/Bass: Commissioner | ||
| Saturday 31-Aug-13 07:15pm |
King's Theatre, Edinburgh American Lulu Edinburgh International Festival |
Scottish Opera Angel Blue, Soprano: Lulu Jacqui Dankworth, Voice: Eleanor Donald Maxwell, Bass: Dr Bloom Robert Winslade Anderson, Bass: Clarence Jonathan Stoughton, Tenor: Jimmy Paul Curievici, Tenor: The Painter Simon Wilding, Bass: Athlete Gerry Cornelius, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Paul Reeves, Bass: Professor/Bass: Banker/Bass: Commissioner |
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| King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 2 Leven Street, Edinburgh EH3 9, United Kingdom Saturday 31-Aug-13 07:15pm American Lulu Seductress, victim, manipulator: Lulu lives off men as both tortured and torturer, purveyor of ecstasy and angel of death. Caught up in greedy games and seedy schemes, and surrounded by lovers driven to despair, Lulu makes an inexorable rise to the highest levels of power, money and fame. But her descent is just as swift. Twenty years on, as the scarred Lulu looks back on her life, she faces a squalid history of sex, murder and violence. Award-winning Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth has radically reworked Alban Berg’s unfinished 1934 opera for the 21st century, setting it against the backdrop of the US civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s and transporting audiences to the smoky jazz clubs of the Deep South. Neuwirth re-interprets Berg’s score for a jazz-inspired ‘Las Vegas’-style ensemble while also integrating her own distinctive voice to make a sound world that casts new light on the whole opera. This new production is conducted by leading contemporary music specialist Gerry Cornelius and staged by the acclaimed British director John Fulljames, with The Orchestra of Scottish Opera. A co-production with The Opera Group, Scottish Opera, Bregenzer Festspiele and Young Vic in association with the London Sinfonietta. Co-commissioned by The Opera Group and Komische Oper Berlin. Image credit: AKA Angel Blue, Soprano: Lulu Jacqui Dankworth, Voice: Eleanor Donald Maxwell, Bass: Dr Bloom Robert Winslade Anderson, Bass: Clarence Jonathan Stoughton, Tenor: Jimmy Paul Curievici, Tenor: The Painter Simon Wilding, Bass: Athlete Gerry Cornelius, Conductor John Fulljames, Director Paul Reeves, Bass: Professor/Bass: Banker/Bass: Commissioner | ||
