Name: Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - Aix-en-Provence Festival 2021
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Description: From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival. Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock leads a fine vocal ensemble that includes soprano Julie Fuchs, baritone Andrè Schuen and mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre.

Les noces de Figaro

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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

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From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival. Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock leads a fine vocal ensemble that includes soprano Julie Fuchs, baritone Andrè Schuen and mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre.

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The Rosina of “The Barber of Seville” has become the Countess Almaviva. Her husband the Count – no model of virtue he – is pursuing both his gardener’s daughter Barbarina, and Susanna, his wife’s chambermaid. Meanwhile Susanna is preparing to marry Figaro, who has entered the Count’s service as a valet, but the governess Marcellina plans to put a stop to it, on the grounds of a promise of marriage that Figaro once made to her...
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From the Théâtre de l’Archevêché, Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities at the Aix-en-Provence opera festival. Conductor Thomas Hengelbrock leads a fine vocal ensemble that includes soprano Julie Fuchs, baritone Andrè Schuen and mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre.

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2021

Mozart’s opera – directed by Lotte de Beer – opens the festivities of the festival of lyric art in Aix-en-Provence.

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The Rosina of “The Barber of Seville” has become the Countess Almaviva. Her husband the Count – no model of virtue he – is pursuing both his gardener’s daughter Barbarina, and Susanna, his wife’s chambermaid. Meanwhile Susanna is preparing to marry Figaro, who has entered the Count’s service as a valet, but the governess Marcellina plans to put a stop to it, on the grounds of a promise of marriage that Figaro once made to her...
Sex and Power
With its rhythmic grace, life-affirming profundity and the universality we expect from Mozart, “The Marriage of Figaro” mischievously blends the various guises of Eros with the quirks of human behaviour. Encompassing issues of social status and the different stages of life, Mozart delivers a vibrant plea for the right to love, equally shared by all. But have our views on love and relationships between men and women now become irreconcilable? After Verdi’s “Aida”, presented at the Opéra de Paris in February 2021, Lotte de Beer makes her long-awaited debut on the Aix-en-Provence stage with one of the greatest works of the Mozart opera repertoire. Promising an inventive, burlesque staging that resonates with the contemporary issues highlighted by the #MeToo movement, the Dutch director presents the relationship between sex and power through the perceptions and experiences of the characters; for what appears to be a delightful playground to some, turns out to be a zone of bitter combat for others. Led by conductor Thomas Hengelbrock, the musicians of the Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble accompany a fine vocal ensemble – including soprano Julie Fuchs (Susanna), baritone Andrè Schuen (Figaro) and mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre (Cherubino) – over the course of this single madcap day.

The Old Testament’s Creation narrative provides the basis for this “Erotic Mystery” – as the opera is subtitled. After their expulsion from paradise, Adahm and Chawa and their sons Kajin and Chabel live in a vast, sprawling landscape as the only exemplars of their species. Chawa feels alienated from Adahm and longs to return to the Garden of Eden. The sons Kajin and Chabel have very different views on life. While Kajin is driven by sexual desire, Chabel lives for his religious convictions and plays the part of the perfect son. Jealous of his mother’s love for Chabel, Kajin plans to slay his own brother...
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The most recent staging of The First Humans was in the 1980s. Now the Amsterdam-based Dutch National Opera is to give the work its premiere performance in the Netherlands within the framework of this year’s Holland Festival. Director Calixto Bieito is internationally famous for his uncompromising productions. The French conductor François-Xavier Roth conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for the first time. German soprano Annette Dasch takes on the part of Chawa and the American baritone Kyle Ketelsen the role of Adahm.Photo: © Ruth Walz / Dutch National Opera

The highlight of the Holland Festival 2021 is a rediscovery from composer Rudi Stephan (1887–1915). The opera Die ersten Menschen (The First Humans) is about Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and humanity’s ur-conflicts. Spanish director Calixto Bieito brings it to the stage and François-Xavier Roth makes his debut as conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

An erotic mystery at the Dutch National Opera

Adam and Eve after the Fall: François-Xavier Roth conducts Rudi Stephan’s opera at the Holland Festival 2021.

Rudi Stephan: The First Humans

At the royal palace in Memphis, the high priest Ramfis tells Captain Radames that the goddess Isis knows the name of the man who will lead Egyptian troops in the war against Ethiopia. Radames hopes that – if  he is chosen and if he wins – he will be given the hand of Aida, the Ethiopian slave of Amneris, the Pharaoh’s daughter. But Amneris is also in love with him...A critical lookFirst performed at the Cairo Opera House in December 1871 to celebrate the inauguration of the Suez Canal, Aida is one of the most monumental operas in the Verdian repertoire. In this new production Dutch director Lotte de Beer intends “to take a critical look at European representations of subjugated peoples”. Performing alongside Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, the outstanding cast includes Uzbekistan-born mezzo-soprano Ksenia Dudnikova, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann and French baritone Ludovic Tézier.

Captain Radames is secretly in love with Aida, the Pharaoh’s daughter’s Ethiopian slave... At the Opéra Bastille, Verdi’s masterpiece is directed by Lotte de Beer and performed by an outstanding lyrical cast: Canadian soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, Uzbekistan-born mezzo-soprano Ksenia Dudnikova, German tenor Jonas Kaufmann and French baritone Ludovic Tézier.

Jonas Kaufmann, Sondra Radvanovsky, Ludovic Tézier

At the Opéra Bastille, Verdi’s masterpiece performed by an outstanding lyrical cast and directed by Lotte de Beer.

Giuseppe Verdi: Aida

In Turandot, Puccini transports us to an old, imaginary China. In the heart of Beijing, the destiny of a love triangle plays out: the cruel PrincessTurandot, the Tartar prince Calaf – who is madly in love with her –and the slave Liù, who is in love with Calaf. The guessing game that links these three characters will end in tragedy.
The video artist Franc Aleudirects this new Catalan production. For his first experience as a director, he transportsTurandot... into space. It is in this futuristic setting that the voices ofIréne Theorin (Turandot), Ermonela Jaho (Liù), Jorge de León (Calaf), Chris Merritt (Altoum), and Alexander Vinogradov (Timur) shine.
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 Performance recorded on 15 October 2019 at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona.

As Puccini’s last work, “Turandot” is a veritable musical testament. In this opera, we can hear everything that goes to make up the Italian maestro’s charm: a moving heroine, expressive and contrasting melodies ... all carried forward by the timeless themes of love and death.

Puccini's iconic work becomes a space opera in Barcelona.

"Turandot" by Puccini at the Gran Teatre del Liceu

This year’s opera festival in the little seaside town of Wexford in Ireland was originally to have been devoted to operatic adaptations of Shakespeare. But like so many other festivals in this pandemic year, Wexford Festival Opera had to rethink its entire concept. No longer able to welcome opera lovers from all over the world, it relaunched the festival on the internet under the banner of “Waiting for Shakespeare ... The Festival in the air.”
Hence the decision to open this year’s event not with an opera, but with Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe solonnelle. Rossini composed this “little solemn Mass” – which at 90 minutes long is not actually “little” at all – in 1863, over thirty years after his last opera, Guillaume Tell. Never one to miss an opportunity of making a point, Rossini used the dedication to ask whether his work was sacred music or rather sacrilegious music.
The original version to be performed at the National Opera House Wexford is scored for two pianos, a harmonium, four soloists and chorus – a highly unusual ensemble rooted in the Neapolitan harpsichord tradition of the eighteenth century. Rossini wrote an orchestral version of the work shortly before his death, but only to prevent other composers from doing so, insisting that only the original version be performed during his lifetime.

The opening concert of the virtual Wexford Festival Opera 2020 is dedicated to the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gioachino Rossini’s Petite Messe solonnelle is to be performed in its original version at the National Opera House in Wexford with Kenneth Montgomery at the rostrum and the soloists Claudia Boyle, Tara Erraught, Pietro Adaíni and John Molloy.

From the Wexford Festival Opera 2020

The 2020 virtual edition of the opera festival in Wexford is to open with Rossini’s Petite Messe solonnelle.

Rossini’s "Petite Messe solennelle"

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John Williams: Violin concerto No. 2 (World Premiere)
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