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Busy Times II
I hadn't yet recovered from the journey to Estonia as I had The Flying Dutchman waiting: Because of the reviews, I had been a bit skeptical, but Kasper Holten's interpretation set in the world of b...
30.11.2016 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Elo's Alice
The choreographer of this new full-length ballet, Alice in Wonderland, Jorma Elo, claims that the story is made for ballet, but some reviewers have said that the verbal wit of Lewis Carroll's book is ...
14.10.2016 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Elektra - Very Few Words
Yesterday I saw Elektra by Richard Strauss as directed by Patrice Chéreau and conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen with its star-studded cast, as the Opera website writes. I liked the sets by Richard Peduzz...
16.09.2016 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Romeo and Juliet
Autumn is here again, and my opera and ballet season started yesterday with Natália Horečná' Romeo and Juliet, a co-production of the Finnish National Opera and Ballet and the Slovakian National Theat...
02.09.2016 | Kommentteja 0 |
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A Dutiful Note
The season's last opera, The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinski (1951), doesn't much inspire me to write. Basically the production was entertaining and the music was OK, but the first and second act h...
22.04.2016 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Animated
No disappointiment this time: The Magic Flute - the production of the Berlin Komische Oper, a kind of animated film (comical and 1920s avant garde at the same time) with live singers interspersed - wa...
15.04.2016 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Words, words, and then...
I had been looking forward to seeing Masters of Movement, but the evening got off to a bad start with Alexander Ekman's Episode 31. Without warning, it began with a video with the dancers talking, and...
18.03.2016 | Kommentteja 2 |
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Musical in Dystopia
There has been so much talk about the operatic qualities of heavy metal music that it was only a matter of time before a metal opera was made. Now there is one at the National Opera, Indigo. The compo...
12.02.2016 | Kommentteja 0 |
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More Substantial - The Nose
After the lightweight productions of the season I looked forward to The Nose by Dmitri Shostakovich, an old production of Zürich Opera directed originally by Peter Stein. And it did prove enjoyable. T...
11.12.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Trivial in 3D
The Little Mermaid, a new ballet co-operation of Kenneth Greve and Tuomas Kantelinen, was a disappointment to me. The audience went wild, but not I. A music blogger wrote earlier that "the mermaid dro...
30.10.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Boring, enfuriating...
The season started with The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, not my favourite composer. At first I considered selling my ticket and going to Tosca instead, but it seemed too much trouble, ...
17.09.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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End of Season
It's May, and my last ballet of the season, A Midsummer Night's Dream by Jorma Elo, was yesterday. Music by Mendelssohn, of course. The choreography was first performed in Vienna in 2010.It is always ...
07.05.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Master Singers
The main event of the season for me is Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, directed by Harry Kupfer - originally for the Zurich Opera in 2012. It takes place in the ruins of Katharinenkirche in Nuremberg ...
18.03.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Too Cunning?
The Cunning Little Vixen by Leoš Janáček was so cunning that it slipped me completely: I got laryngitis and had to stay home - I'm still croaking, but the cough seems to be gone. I gave my ticket to a...
03.02.2015 | Kommentteja 0 |
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Something Lighter
After a dreary time of many sad news comes December with a full moon in a clear sky and operetta: Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss the Younger. For once an operetta that was bubbly and light as a feat...
05.12.2014 | Kommentteja 0 |
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