Mark Pullinger
Music Critic and Editor at Bachtrack
Critic, Bachtrack editor, programme note writer. Best when caffeinated. https://t.co/8GjfrlTpNS Also found where the Sky is Blue... 😉
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gramophone.co.uk | Mark Pullinger
⭐⭐⭐⭐Queen of Spades at Garsington Opera (Photo: Georgie Gulliver)After the lavish, eye-popping set for L’elisir d’amore, a showcase for what Garsington Opera’s new studios can achieve, comes frugality. In its new production of The Queen of Spades, regular festival goers will recognise the enormous mobile mirrors and black umbrellas from the St Petersburg act of its 2016 Eugene Onegin.
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thetimes.com | Mark Pullinger
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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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bachtrack.com | Mark Pullinger
“Anyone who loves Wagner and hates Jews can’t be a bad person.” A chilling verdict bestowed on a fervent young soldier who is welcomed into the Wagner family home, Wahnfried, in 1923. In the cast list of Avner Dorman’s opera he is unnamed, simply called The Master’s Disciple, but his identity is in no doubt: Adolf Hitler. A notice in the foyer reels off the trigger warnings: antisemitism, German nationalism, pseudo-science, racism, homophobia, the rise of Nazism and the appearance of Hitler.
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bachtrack.com | Mark Pullinger
The Gewandhaus and Oper Leipzig stand facing each other across Augustusplatz, barely 350m apart. The Gewandhausorchester is the pit band for the opera, but Andris Nelsons, Gewandhauskapellmeister since 2017, had never conducted in the opera house, making his debut one of the hottest tickets in this month’s Shostakovich Festival. The opera: Shostakovich’s most famous, the work that scandalised Stalin, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
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What do you play after your three-hour recital of Ravel’s complete solo piano rep @wigmore_hall ? Why, La Valse of course! Astonishing stuff from Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, who punched the air at the end! https://t.co/UhanqmD6uP
Une petite soirée of the complete Ravel piano music with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet for me at @wigmore_hall... https://t.co/VE8jPqehVA https://t.co/swnZE26syV
RT @teatrolafenice: «Il viaggio non soltanto allarga la mente: le dà forma» (Bruce Chatwin, nato oggi nel 1940 a Sheffield). Buona giornata…
