The new production at Santa Fe Opera, directed by Bruno Ravella, managed to capture much of the opera’s fine emotional balance, but was perhaps even more notable for the quality of its musical performances, especially the Marschallin of Rachel Willis-Sørensen and the taut musical direction of Karina Canellakis
If the evening’s vocal and orchestral forces revealed occasional moments of sentimentality in the score, such moments were far outnumbered by passages of emotional candour and grandly wrought beauty
While the Frank Gehry's sets were pleasingly textural and undeniably successful as works of abstract sculpture, it was apparent that director Peter Sellars would have been just as happy without them.
'Il Giustino' was written first and foremost a vocal showcase, and the staging acknowledged this by turning the area around the orchestra pit into a platform, allowing the singers to deliver their arias directly to the audience without an excess of projection that might have ruined the delicate balance between voice and instrumental ensemble
In 1746 Giovanni Ferrini, the heir to Cristofori’s workshop, built an instrument with harpsichord action on the lower keyboard and a simple piano action on the upper keyboard.Luisa Morales has just released the first full-length recording on the Ferrini instrument to date.
François-Xavier Roth has distinguished himself as a master constructor of concert programmes, mixing works of different centuries, nationalities and styles with uncommon ingenuity.He has also proved himself a champion of modern music, pairing works by living composers with pieces from the standard repertoire in a way that enriches our understanding of both.
These flaws were often compounded by director Aletta Collins’ apparent indifference to character.Ms Collins approached the work first and foremost as a choreographer, rendering dramatic action subservient to physical movement.
La inconclusa Sinfonía concertante en la mayor para violín, viola, violonchelo y orquesta de Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756 - 1791), completada y adaptada por el compositor británico de origen chino Jeffrey Ching, ha sido estrenada mundialmente por la Sächsische Staatskapelle de Dresde, dirigida por Mijail Jurowski (invitado), en un extraordinario concierto con motivo del 469º aniversario de la fundación de esta célebre agrupación orquestal alemana.