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Premieres
World
premiere May 2003 at the Teatro Real
Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909)
Merlin
Photo of the scene (photo: Birgit Popp)
Performance of June 4, 2003 - Though Isaac Albéniz
was one of the most important Spanish composers, he has never found the
recognition, he would deserve. Only few works of the already as a
'Wunderkind' worldwide - like in South America, Leipzig (GER) and
Bruxelles (BEL) - celebrated concert pianist are well-known today with
the exception of his piano pieces and there especially the
Suite Iberia, which has written
music history. And
this though Albéniz has written besides his piano works, of which the
most celebrated besides the Suite Iberia are Recuerdos de viaje, Espana, Seis hojas de álbum,
several pieces for the music theatre like The Magic Opal,
San Antonio de la Florida, Henry Clifford, Pepita Jiménez and Merlin.
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Teatro
del Bosque Móstoles near Madrid (ESP)
Premiere 10. Mai 2003
Un
ballo in maschera
Text
and Photos: Birgit Popp
Within
easy reach of the center of Madrid by the recently opened Metro Sur, the
Teatro del Bosque at Móstoles is an affordable alternative to the
Teatro Real or the Teatro de la Zarzuela in the center of Madrid.
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Teatro
Real Madrid (ESP), Premiere 13. March 13 2003
La
Favorite
Photos:
Javier de Real
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Carlso Álvarez und Sonia Ganassi
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Dolora Sajick und Manuel Lanza
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Donizetti's masterpiece with great success on the
Madrid stage - Report
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Raúl Giménez
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José Bros
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Stefano Palatchi
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Impressions
of the rehearsals Part
1 - Part 2
Transmission
in Spanish National Radio - Classic Radio of the performance of
April 26 at 8 p.m.
Further
information: www.teatro-real.com
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Teatro
Real Madrid (ESP), Premiere February 7/8, 2003
Faust
(Gounod)
Highly
acclaimed production with outstanding casts
Impressions and contents Part
1 - Part
2 - Part
3 - Part
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Teatro de la Maestranza, Sevilla, Premiere October
25, 2002
Otello
A strange sight for a premiere !
Orchestra strike in Seville
Photos: Teatro de la Maestranza, Birgit Popp Text:
Birgit Popp
Certainly Carlos Álvarez would have appreciated to have his stage debut
as Jago in Verdi's Otello with less dramatic circumstances, as this was
the case in Seville (ESP) at October 25, 2002. Nevertheless, it became
an outstanding performance of the Spanish baritone.
Carlos Álvarez and Ángel Rodríguez
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Impressions and contents
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Teatro Real, Madrid, Premiere October 1, 2002
Simone Boccanegra
Photo: Birgit Popp
With a from all sides applauded, splendid
performance of Verdi's Simone Boccanegra the Teatro Real in Madrid (ESP)
opened on October 1 its fifth season since its reopening in 1997. Stage
director Giancarlo del Monaco and his stage and costume designer Michael
Scott have created together with the light designer Wolfgang Zoubek a
completely rounded work with an intensive atmosphere and magnificent
design. The five protagonists of the first night - Alexandru Agache
(Simone Boccanegra), Elisabete Matos (Amelia Grimaldi), Giacomo Prestia
(Jacopo Fiesco), Marco Berti (Gabriele Adorno) and Anooshah Golesorkhi
(Paolo Albani) - have been in as good form as the orchestra under the
baton of Gabriele Ferro.
Report
of the premiere
Impressions and contents Part
1 - Part
2 - Part
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Performances: October 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8,
10, 12, 13, 15
Radio broadcast: Sunday Oct. 13, 2002, 6
p.m.
Spanish National Radio Station Chanel - Radio Classica |
Royal Opera House Covent Garden London, October 11,
2002
(Premiere Sept. 28, 2002)
I
masnadieri
Carlo (Franco Farina) and Amalia (Paula Delligatti) finally found each
other again, but too late for an happy-end.
Photo: Clive
Barda
While
Rigoletto (first performed in 1851) belongs to the standard repertory of
almost each opera house throughout the world, the Royal Opera House
staged with Verdi's I masnadieri (Libretto: Andrea Maffai after
Schiller's Die Räuber) a very seldom played opera of the Italian
composer, which had been first performed ever at London in 1847.
Report
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Vienna State Opera, Premičre December 22, 2001
First performance at Vienna in original language
of Charles Gounod's
opera
Roméo
et Juliette
Famous opera premičre of Roméo et Juliette at the
Vienna State Opera -
Light, music, voices, movements and costumes melt to a fascinating unit
Stefania Bonfadelli
Photos: Axel Zeininger
Report
Photoimpressions
and contents
part 1
Photoimpressions
and contents
part 2
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Teatro Real, Madrid (ESP), Premiere October 1,
2001
Rigoletto
Carlos Alvarez als Rigoletto - Photo: Teatro Real
The night of Carlos Alvarez
For the opening of the 2001/2002-season at the Teatro Real Carlos Alvarez gave his
enthusiastically celebrated debut as Rigoletto, Verdi's tragic court jester and father
figure. The in Malaga born, young Spanish baritone embodied the difficult role as singer
and actor in an incredible intensive way with a sensible, but nevertheless force- and
powerful, beautiful voice. (more)
Further performances: October 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 24
and 28, 2001
Report
Commentary Cast
Impressions and Contents Part 1 Part 2
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Vienna State Opera, Premiere December 7, 2000
Roberto Devereux
A festival of the great voices
The first appearance ever at the Vienna State Opera of Donizetti's 1837
at Neapel first staged opera drama about jalousy, love and betrayal became under the
musical direction of Marcello Viotti in the production of Silviu Purcarete and his
designer Helmut Stürmer a outstanding success for Edita Gruberova as Queen Elizabeth I.,
Ramon Vargas in the title role as Roberto Devereux, Ekelejda Shkosa as Sara, Duchesse of
Nottingham, and Yu Chen as Duke of Nottingham, who was covering the sick Carlos Alvarez.
An extended report will follow soon.
Edita Gruberova in her favourite role as Elizabeth I.
Photo: Axel Zeininger
Photo Impressions
Gran Teatro de Liceo, Barcelona, October 7, 1999
Gran Teatro de Liceo reopened
with Puccini's
Turandot
Short
report
Opera Frankfurt (am Main), Premiere, October 2, 1999
Der
Fliegende Holländer - The Flying Dutchman
Review
Bregenz Festival July 20 till August 23, 1999
Un ballo
in maschera
Photos: Birgit Popp (Agfa ePhoto CL 50)
Bregenz, floating stage, Premiere July 21, 1999: With the British stage
director team Richard Jones and Antony McDonald Verdi's whole opera 'Un ballo in maschera'
becomes a dance into death in a fantastic -surrealistic stage and light aesthetic carried
by the music's bow of tension, which the Vienna Symphonists under the baton of
Marcello Viotti never let get torn off.
Greek
Passion
Photo: Miro Kusmanovic
Bregenz, Festival House, Premiere July 20, 1999: Worls's premiere of
the first version of Bohuslav Martinů's work 'Greek Passion' becomes an
overwhelming success.
An extended report will follow !
Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville (ESP), Premičre
May 4, 1999
El Cid
(Le Cid)
Finale Photo: Guillermo Mendo Murillo, Sevilla
Revival of Massenet's almost forgotten opera 'Le Cid' became a grandiose spectacle in
a splendid setting with an outstanding cast: Plácido Domingo (Rodrigue/Le Cid), Elisabete
Matos (Chimene), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Diego), Eva Santana (L' Infante), Alain Vernhes
(Le Roi), Valeri Alexejev (Le Comte de Gormas), Fernando Latorre (Don Alonzo), Josep Ruiz
(Don Arias), Sergio Fontana (St. Jacques), Eric Martin-Bonnet (L'Envoye Maure)
Oper Köln (Cologne)/GER, April 8, 1999, B-Premičre
Parsifal
Oper Frankfurt am Main (GER), April 3, 1999, Premičre
Cavalleria
rusticana
Pagliacci (Der Bajazzo)
Gripping new production of 'Cavalleria rusticana' and 'Pagliacci'
directed by Giancarlo del Monaco and condcuted by Paolo Carignani
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