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Opera in brief: He Hui debuts “Der fliegende Holländer” in Guangzhou; Diana Damrau and Nicholas Testé in recital; Musica Viva’s “L’elisir d’amore” for students
21 May 202322 May 2023
The first half of May was been a busy fortnight for opera in the Greater Bay Area. The renowned Chinese soprano He Hui sang her first Wagner role, Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, at the Guangzhou Opera House on 5 and 7 May, a dramatic move (literally and figuratively) away from the Verdi and Puccini…
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Classical music | Essays | Opera
Letter from Bayreuth
29 August 201919 March 2021
The 2019 editions of Tristan und Isolde and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg during the 136th Wagner Festival in Bayreuth were reminders why the Festival is famous for outstanding singing and controversial staging.
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Classical music | Opera
“Tannhäuser”: Oper Leipzig at the 2019 Hong Kong Arts Festival
4 March 2019
With domestic Hong Kong opera productions leaning almost exclusively to more or less traditional readings of the stalwarts of repertoire, perhaps someone sometimes has to shake things up a bit. This is what the Hong Kong Arts Festival arguably set out to do by having Oper Leipzig bring Calixto Bieito’s unconventional staging of Richard Wagner’s…
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