#keith warner

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The first production photo that I am aware of from the 2018 revival of the Keith Warner production of Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera. From the ROH website; no photographer seems to be credited. The Ring Cycle opens in Covent Garden tonight (September 24, 2018).

I’m not positive of all the singers and characters but I believe, from left to right, they are Sarah Connolly (Fricka), John Lundgren (Wotan), Markus Eiche (Donner), Andrew Staples (Froh), Alan Oke (Loge), and Lise Davidsen (Freia).

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un bacio... un bacio ancora ah!... un’alltro bacio...

Otello’s death scene from Verdi’s Otello (ROH 2017)

[animatealaopera]

Jonas Kaufmann debut as Otello at the Royal Opera House. With Maria Agresta as Desdémona and  Marco Vratogna as Iago, directed by Keith Warner and conducted by Antonio Pappano.

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GLYNDEBOURNE 2018: VANESSA DE SAMUEL BARBER

GLYNDEBOURNE 2018: VANESSA DE SAMUEL BARBER

Virginie Verrez (Erika) i Emma Bell (Vanessa) Glyndebourne 2018 Fotografia Tristram Kenton gentilesa del GFO

La proposta m’interessava molt abans de veure-la perquè tinc una especial predilecció per aquesta òpera i per la música de Samuel Barber en general. He escoltat diverses vegades la gravació històrica amb els intèrprets que la varen estrenar, un quintet antològic format per Steber, Elias,…

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Ensnaring the Soul: Thoughts on ROH’s “Otello,” and its Demi-devil

Ensnaring the Soul: Thoughts on ROH’s “Otello,” and its Demi-devil

I will start by saying that I adore Shakespeare’s Othello, and I’m far more familiar with the play than with Verdi and Boito’s opera. (So, you’ll see various “Othello” versus “Otello” spellings depending on which I’m referring to.) But knowing just enough of this opera to feel both its intensity and its difficulty, I was in as much anticipation as any to hear and see the interpretation of Jonas…

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