#anna prohaska

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Anna Prohaska, Magdalena Kožená, and Dorothea Röschmann in Der Rosenkavalier. Staatsoper Berlin, 2012. (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)

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just got onto the Freischuetz stream and this is where we’re at

production looks interesting, Golda Schultz is gorgeous, and the singer playing Aennchen is both beautifully-voiced and beautiful and I want that look

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I'm losing my mind a little over here

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Anna Prohaska - Monteverdi: 'Lamento della Ninfa' (Official Video)

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The Glyndebourne Hippolyte et Aricie (or “Fridge Rameau” as I fondly call it) is so near to my heart that the Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s brainy new production is a tough sell to me. (Apparently it has something to do with “post-humanism and the Anthropocene”? And mirrors and lasers.) So I don’t know that I will watch the livestream this Saturday—which seems to be geoblocked, by the way. But folks should know about it; the music sounds fantastic in this preview clip.

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Anna Prohaska and Juliane Banse in Fidelio. Theater an der Wien, 2013. (Photo: Moritz Schell / Herwig Prammer)

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Hannigan, Genaux, Kožená, and some seasonal concerts

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

To be honest, the clips of Michael Jarrell’s Bérénice on the Opéra de Paris YouTube channel do not entice my interest in listening to the radio broadcast, but I have all respect for Barbara Hannigan doing her new music thing and I thought some of my Tumblr friends would like to know about the broadcast. Deferred broadcast Wednesday, December 5 on France Musique.

This is more my usual thing: Vivica Genaux sings arias by Hasse, Broschi, Porpora, Vivaldi, and Handel. Live broadcast Friday, December 7 on ABC Classic FM. (Note that the broadcast, coming from Australia, falls early in the day in the Western hemisphere.)

Magdalena Kožená sings the central role of Phèdre in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie, in an ausverkauft new production for the Berliner Staatsoper by Aletta Collins. The other stars include Anna Prohaska (Aricie), Reinoud Van Mechelen (Hippolyte), and Gyula Orendt (Thésée). Video livestream Saturday, December 8 on Arte Live Web. 

This is the season when the orchestras represented on World Concert Hall offer more Messiahs and Weihnachtsoratoriums than you can shake a stick at. None has jumped out at me as unmissable so far, but some personal fave baroque interpreters who are popping up in these Christmassy concerts include Katherine Watson and Iestyn Davies, Sherezade Panthaki and Richard Croft, and Karina Gauvin.

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Panthaki, Prohaska, de Negri, and Connolly

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Sherezade Panthaki sings Vivaldi’s In Furore Iustissimae Irae with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Tuesday, July 31 on WQXR.

Anna Prohaska performs a variety of baroque works with Il Giardino Armonico. (Part of the BBC Proms.) Thursday, August 2 on BBC Radio 3.*

I’m not totally vouching for this performance of Handel’s Rinaldo from the MAFestival in Bruges because I am not familiar with most of the performers, but I could not help noticing that it has the splendid Emmanuelle de Negri in the role of Almirena. Friday, August 3 on Klara.*

Sarah Connolly, accompanied by Joseph Middleton, sings a program of English songs, mostly drawn from her new album Come to Me in My Dreams, plus a brand new piece by Lisa Illean. (Part of the BBC Proms.) Monday, August 6 on BBC Radio 3.*

Broadcasts marked with an asterisk (*) are on radio stations known to me to have a history of making their concert broadcasts available for listening on demand for at least a week following the initial broadcast.