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Distant Sounds: Opera in Miniature – Continuum Ensemble – Kings Place, 19 June 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Saturday, 20 June 2015. Opera in Miniature – Continuum Ensemble – Kings Place, 19 June 2015. Performed in English as. Robert – Andrew Rees. Auntie – Martha Jones. Maid – Gemma Summerfield. Doctor – Barnaby Rea. Wise Man – Norbert Meyn. Performed in English as. Emilie – Donna Bateman. Egon – Martin McDougall. Vom Tod im Wald. Jessie – Anna Dennis. Bessie – Martha Jones. Vom Tod im Wald.
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Distant Sounds: Zemlinsky string quartets - Brodsky Quartet - CD review
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Thursday, 11 June 2015. Zemlinsky string quartets - Brodsky Quartet - CD review. A link to a CD review appearing in the June 2015 edition of The Strad. Zemlinsky: Complete
String Quartets. Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN 10845(2) (TWO DISCS). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The 2016-17 opera season. View my complete profile. Opera in Miniature – Continuum Ensemble – Kings Pl.
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Distant Sounds: Der ferne Klang – Nationaltheater Mannheim – 12 July 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Der ferne Klang – Nationaltheater Mannheim – 12 July 2015. Photos: Hans Jörg Michel. Grete – Astrid Weber. Fritz – Michael Baba. The old Graumann/The Baron – Sung Ha. Graumann’s wife – Petra Welteroth. Innkeeper/Rudolf – Sebastian Pilgrim. A ham actor/The count/Actor – Raymond Ayers. Dr Vigelius, a lawyer – Bartosz Urbanowicz. Mizzi – Tamara Banjesević. Given the...
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Distant Sounds: February 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Monday, 23 February 2015. BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sakari Oramo – Barbican Hall, London – 18 February 2015. Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin. And Nielsen’s Fourth Symphony ‘The Inextinguishable’ were all begun in the fateful year of 1914. Zemlinsky’s Six Maeterlinck Songs. Waves of a more pictorial nature colour Sibelius’s Oceanides. Which had just the right balance between delicacy and bite.
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Distant Sounds: 2015/16 operatic highlights in continental Europe
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Friday, 5 June 2015. 2015/16 operatic highlights in continental Europe. NB: this summary has been compiled in good faith, but please don’t blame me if I’ve inadvertently misplaced any dates or other facts; further confirmation and details can easily be found by googling venues – there are too many to link to from here. Updates since original posting on 5 June in red. Meanwhile, continues...
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Distant Sounds: Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Cycle in 2013, for example). There isn’t the choice of hotel accommodation found in more prominent places, perhaps, but as an alternative Kaiserslautern is easily commutable from Mannheim and even Karlsruhe, since it lies within the region’s extensive S-bahn network (and last trains. Reviews of performances in Kaiserslautern. Karlsruhe (90/2/1), Mannheim (55/3/2). The city of Mainz, situ...
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Distant Sounds: July 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Wednesday, 22 July 2015. Der ferne Klang – Nationaltheater Mannheim – 12 July 2015. Photos: Hans Jörg Michel. Grete – Astrid Weber. Fritz – Michael Baba. The old Graumann/The Baron – Sung Ha. Graumann’s wife – Petra Welteroth. Innkeeper/Rudolf – Sebastian Pilgrim. A ham actor/The count/Actor – Raymond Ayers. Dr Vigelius, a lawyer – Bartosz Urbanowicz. Mizzi – Tamara Banjesević. Given the...
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Distant Sounds: Peter Grimes – Theater Koblenz, 3 July 2015; Theater Ulm, 9 July 2015
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Occasional reviews and writings on classical music, travel and other subjects. Opera in Germany – a traveller’s guide. Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Peter Grimes – Theater Koblenz, 3 July 2015; Theater Ulm, 9 July 2015. Koblenz: Grimes (Ray M. Wade Jr). And Aurea Marston (Ellen). Ulm: Grimes (Hans-Günther Dotzauer). Ray M Wade Jr. I Chiao Shih/Judith Christ. Statisterie, Opernchor and Extrachor. Angela C. Schuett. The mob musters in Koblenz. I was less taken with Markus Dietze’s production, however. I...Why doe...
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