Richard Wagner
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Joshua Riverton har i mange år jobbet for et skruppelløst firma uten å stille seg spørrende til dets skånselsløse fremferd. Han får en solid tankevekker når datteren hans blir syk og legene ikke kan svare på hva årsaken er. Er det slik at sykdommen kommer av arbeidsgiverens råtne miljøpolitikk?
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde - Bayreuth Festival (2015)
^Tristan & Isolde, the high-point of the 2015 Bayreuth Festival: Katharina Wagner’s highly anticipated new production of her great-grandfather's - Richard Wagner - immortal music drama of love and longing. With Evelyn Herlitzius as the “perfect Isolde, singing with precision and ardour right up to the end, and Stephen Gould as Tristan, sovereign master of his murderously difficult role, as impressive for refinement as for power in the strenuous last act … Wagner authority Christian Thielemann conducted with an elegance and precision that is probably unsurpassable today” (Der Spiegel).
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Director Barrie Kosky’s explosive take on Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg caused a sensation at the 2017 Bayreuth Festival. The “astonishingly entertaining and convincing” production (Der Spiegel) boldly confronts Die Meistersinger’s nationalistic and anti-Semitic attitudes head-on: Wagner himself is placed centre stage, amid references to many figures from the composer’s life: his wife Cosima becomes the heroine Eva, and Hermann Levi, the conductor Wagner humiliated, becomes the reviled Sixtus Beckmesser. In Act 3 the singing contest is set at the Nuremberg Trials, with Hans Sachs’s hymn to the purity of German art coming from the lips of Wagner himself, addressing an empty courtroom.Opera News called it “a production of enormous insight and great quality”. “Kosky’s Meistersinger is a reminder that Bayreuth can still score palpable dramatic hits”, wrote The Guardian. The performance, conducted by Philippe Jordan, was also praised, with the superb cast of expert Wagnerians including Michael Volle (Sachs), Johannes Martin Kränzle (Beckmesser), Klaus Florian Vogt (Walther), Anne Schwanewilms (Eva) and Günther Groissböck (Pogner). But the focus remains on the composer, as The New York Times wrote, in an opera that “is Wagner’s mouthpiece, both when it’s humane and when it’s malignant”.
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Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
A new opera production of Richard Wagner’s “Der fliegende Holländer” (The Flying Dutchman). This is the first time in the 25 years of Bryn Terfel’s career as an opera singer that he has recorded this work. Bryn Terfel is surrounded by a stellar cast and crew: the head of the Zurich opera Andreas Homoki staged the production, renowned French conductor Alain Altinoglu takes the musical lead, and Matti Salminen – a living legend on the world’s opera stages – personifies Daland, with Anja Kampe as Senta and Marco Jentzsch as Erik. This exceptional recording of the "ghost story" was made at the Opernhaus Zürich in January 2013. "Oper aktuell” acclaimed Terfel's peformance with the words: "You do not want to experience anyone other than Bryn Terfel” (in this role).
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