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| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 04:30pm |
 Leeds Town HallSiegfried |
Opera North Annalena Persson, Soprano: Brünnhilde Mati Turi, Tenor: Siegfried Richard Roberts, Tenor: Mime Michael Druiett, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Jo Polheim, Baritone: Alberich Mats Almgren, Bass-baritone: Fafner Fflur Wyn, Soprano: Waldvogel (the woodbird) Andrea Baker, Contralto: Erda Richard Farnes, Conductor |
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| Leeds Town Hall, Leeds LS1 3AD, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 04:30pm Annalena Persson, Soprano: Brünnhilde Mati Turi, Tenor: Siegfried Richard Roberts, Tenor: Mime Michael Druiett, Bass-baritone: Wanderer Jo Polheim, Baritone: Alberich Mats Almgren, Bass-baritone: Fafner Fflur Wyn, Soprano: Waldvogel (the woodbird) Andrea Baker, Contralto: Erda Richard Farnes, Conductor | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 05:10pm |
Glyndebourne Opera House Le nozze di Figaro Glyndebourne |
Glyndebourne Opera Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Grandage, Director Christopher Oram, Set Designer Adam Plachetka, Bass-baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Amanda Majeski, Soprano: Countess Almaviva Joshua Hopkins, Baritone: Count Almaviva Luciano di Pasquale, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Anne Mason, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Lydia Teuscher, Soprano: Cherubino Timothy Robinson, Tenor: Don Basilio |
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| Glyndebourne Opera House, Glyndebourne BN8 5UU, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 05:10pm Le nozze di Figaro Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Michael Grandage, Director Christopher Oram, Set Designer Adam Plachetka, Bass-baritone: Figaro Laura Tatulescu, Soprano: Susanna Amanda Majeski, Soprano: Countess Almaviva Joshua Hopkins, Baritone: Count Almaviva Luciano di Pasquale, Bass: Doctor Bartolo Anne Mason, Mezzo-soprano: Marcellina Lydia Teuscher, Soprano: Cherubino Timothy Robinson, Tenor: Don Basilio | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 06:00pm |
Opéra Bastille, Paris Die Walküre |
Opéra de Paris Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Stuart Skelton, Tenor: Siegmund Günther Groissböck, Bass: Hunding Egils Silins, Bass-baritone: Wotan Martina Serafin, Soprano: Sieglinde Janice Baird, Soprano: Brünnhilde Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka Kelly God, Soprano: Gerhilde Carola Höhn, Soprano: Ortlinde Silvia Hablowetz, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Contralto: Schwertleite Barbara Morihien, Soprano: Helmwige Heleme Ranada, Mezzo-soprano: Siegrune Louise Callinan, Mezzo-soprano: Rossweisse Ann-Beth Solvang, Mezzo-soprano: Grimgerde |
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| Opéra Bastille, Paris, 120 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France Wednesday 19-Jun-13 06:00pm For the first time in 60 years, the Paris Opera is performing all four parts of The Ring of the Nibelung over a ten-day period, conducted by Philippe Jordan, the Opera’s musical director. Performed in German. Philippe Jordan, Conductor Günter Krämer, Director Stuart Skelton, Tenor: Siegmund Günther Groissböck, Bass: Hunding Egils Silins, Bass-baritone: Wotan Martina Serafin, Soprano: Sieglinde Janice Baird, Soprano: Brünnhilde Sophie Koch, Mezzo-soprano: Fricka Kelly God, Soprano: Gerhilde Carola Höhn, Soprano: Ortlinde Silvia Hablowetz, Mezzo-soprano: Waltraute Wiebke Lehmkuhl, Contralto: Schwertleite Barbara Morihien, Soprano: Helmwige Heleme Ranada, Mezzo-soprano: Siegrune Louise Callinan, Mezzo-soprano: Rossweisse Ann-Beth Solvang, Mezzo-soprano: Grimgerde | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 06:20pm |
Garsington Opera, High Wycombe Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Garsington Opera |
Garsington Opera Company William Lacey, Conductor Daniel Slater, Director Francis O'Connor, Set Designer Rebecca Nelsen, Soprano: Konstanze Norman Reinhardt, Tenor: Belmonte Susanna Andersson, Soprano: Blondchen Matthew Rose, Baritone: Osmin Mark Wilde, Tenor: Pedrillo |
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| Garsington Opera, High Wycombe, The Wormsley Estate, High Wycombe HP14 3YE, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 06:20pm Mozart's Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem), K384 (Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)) William Lacey, Conductor Daniel Slater, Director Francis O'Connor, Set Designer Rebecca Nelsen, Soprano: Konstanze Norman Reinhardt, Tenor: Belmonte Susanna Andersson, Soprano: Blondchen Matthew Rose, Baritone: Osmin Mark Wilde, Tenor: Pedrillo | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Opernhaus, Zürich Lady Macbeth of Mzensk |
Zurich Opera Teodor Currentzis, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Director Hartmut Meyer, Set Designer Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich Gun-Brit Barkmin, Soprano: Katerina Lvovna Izmailova Kurt Rydl, Bass: Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor: Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov Brandon Jovanovich, Tenor: Sergey Kismara Pessatti, Mezzo-soprano: Aksinia Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Sonyetka Valery Murga, Bass: Office Manager Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Pope Tomasz Slawinski, Bass: Police inspector |
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| Opernhaus, Zürich, Opernhaus Falkenstrasse 1, Zürich 8008, Switzerland Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Lady Macbeth of Mzensk Opera in nine scenes
Libretto by Alexander G. Preis and Dmitri Shostakovich
after a novella by Nikolai Leskov
The young wife of a merchant, Katerina Ismailova, murders three people. She stirs rat poison into her tyrannical father-in-law’s dish of mushrooms, beats her husband to death together with her lover, and at the prison camp in Siberia, as she finally jumps to her death, drags a rival down with her. Nevertheless, in a horrific men’s world of greed, lechery and violence, Katerina is the only figure with a human face in this opera. Only for her has Shostakovich reserved a compassionate tone. The society in which she becomes a murderess is barbaric. With twisted mouths, the grotesque faces of human wickedness grin out at us from Shostakovich’s magnificent score.
Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was premièred in Leningrad in 1934. It marks a decisive turning point in Shostakovich’s oeuvre. After Joseph Stalin attended a performance of the opera in 1936, the famous article entitled Chaos instead of music was published in Pravda. The work was scourged as the expression of “radical left-wing self-indulgence” and “petit bourgeois innovation”. It disappeared from theatres, Shostakovich had to fear for his life, never composed another opera, and from then on concealed his true musical feelings and ideas behind a thousand masks.
Teodor Currentzis, the spirited Greek conductor from Siberia who has caused a furore with his unconventional interpretations, is the musical director of the production. Tatjana Serjan, famous for her Verdi roles, will be giving her role début as Katerina. Zurich Opera Director Andreas Homoki will be staging his second production of this season.
In Russian with German and English supertitles.Teodor Currentzis, Conductor Andreas Homoki, Director Hartmut Meyer, Set Designer Orchestra La Scintilla Zurich Gun-Brit Barkmin, Soprano: Katerina Lvovna Izmailova Kurt Rydl, Bass: Boris Timofeyevich Izmailov Benjamin Bernheim, Tenor: Zinoviy Borisovich Izmailov Brandon Jovanovich, Tenor: Sergey Kismara Pessatti, Mezzo-soprano: Aksinia Julia Riley, Mezzo-soprano: Sonyetka Valery Murga, Bass: Office Manager Pavel Daniluk, Bass: Pope Tomasz Slawinski, Bass: Police inspector | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
New Palace Sanssouci: Palace Theatre, Potsdam Premiere: Proserpina Potsdam Sanssouci Music Festival |
Ensemble Syd Barokksolistene Olof Boman, Conductor Elisabeth Linton, Director Elisabeth Meyer, Soprano: Proserpina Erika Roos, Soprano: Ceres Isa Katharina Gericke, Soprano: Cyane David Danholt, Tenor: Atis Lars Arvidson, Baritone: Pluto Ludvig Lindström, Baritone: Jupiter |
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| New Palace Sanssouci: Palace Theatre, Potsdam, Sanssouci Park, Am Neuen Palais, 14469 Potsdam, Germany Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Premiere: Proserpina Opera in one act by Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792) Libretto by Johan Henrik Kellgren Based on a sketch by Gustav III of Sweden. Sung in Swedish with German supertitles
It was a Swedish fellow student at the university of Göttingen who suggested to would-be composer Joseph Martin Kraus trying his luck at Gustav III’s court in Stockholm. In 1772 Gustav founded the royal opera to raise his nation’s cultural prestige and to further the development of its own national culture. Soon the repertoire, which the king managed himself, also contained operas in Swedish. He designed libretti and was always on the lookout for new talents. All in all, there were striking similarities between him and his mother’s brother: famous Uncle Frederic II.
Inspired by ancient mythology, the one act piece "Proserpin", which received a preview performance in 1781 at Uriksdal Palace, launched composer Kraus’ distinguished career as royal Swedish conductor at the tender age of 25. His score which is rich in both colours and events he largely leaves the traditional number opera structure and finds his very individual compositional solutions. This is the work of one of the period’s most original and most innovative opera creators. Haydn called him a genius. That is a word he only used for one other man: Mozart.
Ensemble Syd Barokksolistene Olof Boman, Conductor Elisabeth Linton, Director Elisabeth Meyer, Soprano: Proserpina Erika Roos, Soprano: Ceres Isa Katharina Gericke, Soprano: Cyane David Danholt, Tenor: Atis Lars Arvidson, Baritone: Pluto Ludvig Lindström, Baritone: Jupiter | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Holland Park Theatre, London Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci Opera Holland Park |
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, Soprano: Santuzza Peter Auty, Tenor: Turiddu Stephen Gadd, Baritone: Alfio Peter Auty, Tenor: Canio Julia Sporsen, Soprano: Nedda Stephen Gadd, Baritone: Tonio |
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| Holland Park Theatre, London, Holland Park, London W8 6LU, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci Tickets from £12 - £67.50 will be on sale from 25th April.Gweneth-Ann Jeffers, Soprano: Santuzza Peter Auty, Tenor: Turiddu Stephen Gadd, Baritone: Alfio Peter Auty, Tenor: Canio Julia Sporsen, Soprano: Nedda Stephen Gadd, Baritone: Tonio | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
The London Coliseum La Bohème |
English National Opera Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît |
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| The London Coliseum, St. Martin's Lane, London WC2N 4ES, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Puccini’s gift for writing emotional music is brought to the fore in La bohème’s tale of doomed love in poverty-stricken Paris. One of the world’s most recognised and widely performed operas, it focuses on two central relationships: that of the poet Rodolfo, who falls in love with the pretty but consumptive seamstress Mimì; and the painter Marcello, who has a glamorous and popular on-off mistress, Musetta.
Jonathan Miller’s production for ENO has quickly become a company classic and here receives its second revival since its 2009 premiere. Inspired by Brassaï’s photographs of the Paris Left Bank in the 1930s, Miller modernises the original bohemian setting to evoke the stark poverty of the day, creating a highly effective contemporary resonance, citing the film Withnail and I as an inspiration. Playing Mimì is Kate Valentine, who in recent seasons has played the Countess in Fiona Shaw’s production of The Marriage of Figaro and an ‘excellent’ (The Times) Helena in Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-nominated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Gwyn Hughes Jones returns to the role of Rodolfo following his great success in ENO’s 2010 production, and recent acclaimed Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly.Jonathan Miller, Director Natascha Metherell, Revival Director Isabella Bywater, Set Designer Gwyn Hughes Jones, Tenor: Rodolfo Kate Valentine, Soprano: Mimì Richard Burkhard, Baritone: Marcello Angel Blue, Soprano: Musetta Andrew Craig Brown, Bass: Colline Duncan Rock, Baritone: Schaunard Simon Butteriss, Bass: Benoît | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin The Fairy Queen |
Staatsoper Berlin Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin |
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| Staatsoper at Schiller Theater, Berlin, Bismarckstraße 110, 10625 Berlin, Germany Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm Caught between Baroque and contemporary music: Helmut Oehring takes Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen" as a model for his ideas.Pre-performance lecture, 45 minutes prior to each performance (in German) Michael Boder, Conductor Benjamin Bayl, Conductor Claus Guth, Director Christian Schmidt, Set Designer Ramses Sigl, Choreography Eberhard Friedrich, Choirmaster Marlis Petersen, Soprano Tanja Ariane Baumgartner, Mezzo-soprano Bejun Mehta, Countertenor Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor Roman Trekel, Baritone Staatskapelle Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Staatsopernchor Berlin | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm |
War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA The Gospel of Mary Magdalene - World première |
San Francisco Opera Company Michael Christie, Conductor Kevin Newbury, Director Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-soprano: Mary Magdalene Maria Kanyova, Soprano: Miriam William Burden, Tenor: Peter Nathan Gunn, Baritone: Yeshua |
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| War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, 94102, United States Wednesday 19-Jun-13 07:30pm The Gospel of Mary Magdalene - World première Sung in English with English supertitles. Approximate running time: 2 hours, 30 minutes. Michael Christie, Conductor Kevin Newbury, Director Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-soprano: Mary Magdalene Maria Kanyova, Soprano: Miriam William Burden, Tenor: Peter Nathan Gunn, Baritone: Yeshua | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:30pm |
Aldeburgh Beach Grimes on the Beach Aldeburgh Festival |
Alan Oke, Tenor: Peter Grimes Giselle Allen, Soprano: Ellen Orford David Kempster, Baritone: Captain Balstrode Gaynor Keeble, Contralto Lexi Hutton, Soprano Robert Murray, Tenor Henry Waddington, Bass Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano Christopher Gillett, Tenor Stephen Richardson, Bass Steuart Bedford, Conductor Chorus of Opera North Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama |
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| Aldeburgh Beach, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:30pm Grimes on the Beach Britten’s powerful and masterful evocation of the North Sea in all its moods has to audiences all over the world become inextricably linked with the Aldeburgh that was home to Crabbe in the eighteenth century and Britten in the twentieth. Tim Albery directs an outdoor realisation of Peter Grimes that places the audience directly in its setting – on the beach, watching as dusk fades over the sea taking the audience into the world of Peter Grimes and the local community that has branded him a muderer and hunted him down. The same musical team as the concerts will perform with the singers amplified and the orchestra recorded from the earlier Festival concerts. ‘In ceaseless motion comes and goes the tide Flowing it fills the channel broad and wide Then back to sea with strong majestic sweep It rolls in ebb yet terrible and deep’ Peter Grimes ‘There are few points within the confines of this planet at which you can stand and know that you’re seeing, hearing and breathing precisely what a composer was trying to capture in a particular piece of music.’ Classic FM magazine on Peter Grimes and Aldeburgh beach Please note this performance is outdoors, uncovered and most of the audience will be seated on the beach. There will be limited bench seating and spaces for wheelchair users. In the event of severe weather, the performance may have to be postponed to the following evening. Only legless folding camping chairs may be used on the beach. More information will be sent to bookers in advance of the event. Alan Oke, Tenor: Peter Grimes Giselle Allen, Soprano: Ellen Orford David Kempster, Baritone: Captain Balstrode Gaynor Keeble, Contralto Lexi Hutton, Soprano Robert Murray, Tenor Henry Waddington, Bass Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mezzo-soprano Christopher Gillett, Tenor Stephen Richardson, Bass Steuart Bedford, Conductor Chorus of Opera North Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Open air: Outdoors | ||
| Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:30pm |
Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam Troparion and Suster Bertken Holland Festival |
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| Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ: Main Hall, Amsterdam, Piet Heinkade 1, Amsterdam 1019 BR, Netherlands Wednesday 19-Jun-13 08:30pm Troparion and Suster Bertken The Dutch composer Rob Zuidam has always had an eye for headstrong women. In his first collaboration with festival director Pierre Audi he puts two of them on stage. Suster Bertken tells about the fascinating life of the medieval ascetic Berta Jacobs, who bricked herself in at the Buur Church in Utrecht, in order to devote her life to God. This work from 2010 will be staged for the first time, in combination with the brand new Troparion, which Zuidam wrote for alto Helena Rasker, the young violinist Liza Ferschtman and a small instrumental ensemble. The piece is about a woman who sheds her tears on a dead branch, hoping God will breathe new life into it. According to Zuidam the work is about ‘hope and melancholy and the inability to bridge the gap between past and future.’Tickets €29 - 24, students/CJO €17.50 all categories. Running time 2 hours 5 minutes, with one internal. In medieval Dutch and ancient Greek with Dutch surtitles.Image credit: Ada Nieuwendijk | ||
