MOZART, REQUIEM – Opéra de Rouen
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Meistermusik (with men’s choir) Requiem Two funeral but luminous musical works: Mozart’s Requiem and its Masonic counterpart, the Meistermusik. No, Salieri did not order a requiem to Mozart! If this legend, beautifully used by Milos Forman in…
REQUIEM / YOANN BOURGEOIS – Insula Orchestra, La Seine Musicale
FESTIVAL MOZART MAXIMUM REQUIEM / YOANN BOURGEOIS 1:10 without intermission PROGRAM WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Requiem (original fragments) Do you think you know Mozart’s Requiem by heart? Error ! Forget the versions completed by his student Süssmayr or others, place the…
St. John Passion – Insula Orchestra, La Seine Musicale
PASSION ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN 1h50 without intermission Concert in German surtitled in french PROGRAM JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Johannes Passion Of the four passions by Bach written between 1724 and 1747 Vespers of Good Friday, only survived in their entirety…
Songs of the Traveller – HSBC Recital, Festival D’Aix-en-Provence
Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel What is preferable: love that is a source of sedentarity or loneliness conducive to wanderings? This is the main dilemma of the Vaughan Williams cycle, which in Schubert’s footsteps makes wandering a metaphor for…
Songs of the Traveller – HSBC Recital, Festival D’Aix-en-Provence
Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel What is preferable: love that is a source of sedentarity or loneliness conducive to wanderings? This is the main dilemma of the Vaughan Williams cycle, which in Schubert’s footsteps makes wandering a metaphor for…
Don Giovanni – West Australian Opera
Don Giovanni is a promiscuous nobleman, an anti-hero in the endless pursuit of pleasure. He flouts all of society’s rules and betrays without remorse. He outrages those around him leaving despair and ruin in his wake. Eventually he pays the ultimate…
Parsifal – Opernhaus Zürich
Parsifal Bühnenweihfestspiel in drei Aufzügen von Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Libretto vom Komponisten Musikalische Leitung Simone Young Inszenierung Claus Guth Ausstattung Christian Schmidt Musikalische Assistenz Finnegan Downie Dear Choreinstudierung Ernst Raffelsberger, Janko Kastelic Lichtgestaltung Jürgen Hoffmann Video-Design Andi A. Müller Choreografie…
Ariadne auf Naxos – Theatre Champs-Elysees
DISTRIBUTION Jérémie Rhorer Director Katie Mitchell Directed Martin Crimp Dramaturgy Joseph W. Alford Head of Movements Chloe Lamford Sets Sarah Blenkinsop Costumes James Farncombe Lights Camilla Nylund Ariane Roberto Sacca Bacchus Kate Lindsey Composer Olga Pudova Zerbinette Huw Montague-Rendall Arlequin…
Ariadne auf Naxos – Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Weil – Opernhaus Zürich
Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) Opera in three acts Anyone who does not enjoy himself in Mahagonny has only himself to blame. For in the paradise city constructed in the opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, everything is…
