David Karlin
Founder at Bachtrack
Co-founder and director of Bachtrack. Tech-head, foodie, writer about opera, music and travel, mad about skiing, tennis and scuba. @[email protected]
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1 week ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin |Mark Pullinger |Peter Quantrill |Eleanor Knight
What to search forIn the first and last acts, ladies entered with a train still attached to a bolt of cloth, which was then cut to length by an attendant. Was this production brought to the stage in a great hurry, allowing no time for costume fittings? It's taken two years for Jack Furness' new production of Dvořák's greatest opera to reach the Garsington stage, but it is entirely worth the wait, with a breathtaking performance from Natalya Romaniw in the title role.
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1 week ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
Today, Bachtrack published the 25,000th review written for us: our very own Mark Pullinger’s review of Avner Dorman’s Wahnfried at Longborough Festival, an opera about the legacy of Richard Wagner which is truly one for the cognoscenti. In the fifteen years since we took our first baby steps into reviewing, we have spanned the four points of the compass, from Tokyo to Vancouver, from Bodø in the Arctic Circle in Norway to Wellington in New Zealand.
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2 weeks ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
What kind of opera is Faust? A grand spectacular? An intimate tragedy? A morality tale? Gothic horror? Gounod’s opera mixes all these things freely and Sir David McVicar’s well-travelled 2004 production is happy to lurch from one trope to the next, presenting arresting visual images as it goes. Méphistophélès materialises on stage as a statue which melts into life. Bacchus’s tavern is transmuted into the “Cabaret l’Enfer”.
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3 weeks ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
If a revival of a opera buffa is a guilty pleasure, then last night at Glyndebourne just earned me a lot of days in purgatory. Rarely have I enjoyed an evening of opera that was such unalloyed, joyful, escapist entertainment – with musical standards leaving nothing to be desired.
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1 month ago |
bachtrack.com | David Karlin
In an indifferent performance of The Rite of Spring, it’s easy to forget quite how much excitement this music can generate. Last night’s performance by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Aziz Shokhakimov was anything but indifferent; all that excitement flooded back. You can listen to The Rite of Spring with a memory of a dance performance in your mind’s eye, or perhaps your imagination of one. But you can also listen to it purely as music.
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Belleville, Paris: demonstration for freeing Palestinian prisoners https://t.co/5XbrJe1DYT via @YouTube
We can't think of too many classical pianists from Indonesia, which makes Sam's latest review from @pghsymphony particularly unusual reading: https://t.co/5SE7TYM5Ql
OK, @British_Airways or anyone involved with their app: please explain this screenshot, taken when I was still in the departure lounge at Faro. In particular, explain how it can say “on time” when the estimated arrival time is nearly two hours later than the schedule. https://t.co/O12ZxpgaR5
