An Alpine retreat for Wagner
Published: July 17 2007 16:33 Last updated: July 17 2007 16:33
Rolling fields in emerald green, dotted with contented cows, fringed by rugged Alpine peaks: the setting for Erl’s unlikely Wagner festival is itself so like a stage backdrop that it sometimes seems less real than the inside of the theatre.
- Monteverdi Choir, Royal Albert Hall, London
An extraordinary example of how performers from different cultures can come together and find an outlet for their creative energies, writes Richard Fairman.
Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Royal Albert Hall, London
Berio’s Sinfonia involves fleeting snatches of memorable tunes heard through a foggy haze. The tunes come courtesy of Mahler, Stravinsky, Ravel and others; Berio supplied the fog, writes Richard Fairman.
Fragments from a mind at war
Feuillets d’Hypnos isn’t a play, poem or anything recognisable. Its 237 fragments were jotted down around 1943 while René Char was fighting hidden in the Maquis, writes Clare Shine.- Blood and guts and bel canto
Il trovatore is generally regarded as a blood-and-gutsy melodrama steeped in a bold romantic tradition, but Will Crutchfield was intent on redefining it as the relic of a more graceful era, writes Martin Bernheimer.
- Così fan tutte, Royal Opera House, London
With mobile phones to take the lovers’ photos and a laptop to draw up the marriage contract, the present revival is at once as light-hearted and as profound as ever, writes Richard Fairman.
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