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Rick Perdian

Young Love Is at Center Court in Opéra national du Rhin’s Idomeneo

25/03/201623/03/2016 by Rick Perdian

FranceFrance Mozart, Idomeneo: Soloists, Chœurs de l’Opéra national du Rhin, Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse, Sergio Alapont (conductor), Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg. 20.03.2016 (RP)

Judith Van Wanroij as Ilia; © A.Kaiser.
Judith Van Wanroij as Ilia; © A.Kaiser.

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It’s Spring! Con Brio and Beethoven with the Tonhalle

23/03/201619/03/2016 by Rick Perdian

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Widmann, Beethoven: Tonhalle Orchestra, Hazel Brugger (slam poet), Ran Jia (piano), Lionel Bringuier (conductor), Tonhalle Zurich, 17.03.2016. (RP)

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Jörg Widmann (c) Marco Borggreve

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A Heroic Guillaume Tell with Courage, Class, Crossbows and High C’s Too!

20/03/201615/03/2016 by Rick Perdian

GermanyGermany Rossini, Guillaume Tell: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Hamburg State Opera, Gabriele Ferro (conductor), Staatsoper Hamburg, Hamburg, 12.03.2016. (RP)

Staatsoper Hamburg Gioachino Rossini Guillaume Tell Musikalische Leitung: Gabriele Ferro Inszenierung: Roger Vontobel Buehnenbild: Muriel Gerstner Kostueme: Klaus Bruns Licht: Gerard Cleven Dramaturgie: Albrecht Puhlmann Gessler - Vladimir Baykov Rudolph der Harras - Juergen Sacher Wilhelm Tell - Sergei Leiferkus Walter Furst - Alin Anca Melchthal - Kristinn Sigmundsson Arnold Melchthal - Yosep Kang (Debut an der Hamburgischen Staatsoper) Mathilde - Guanqun Yu Hedwig - Katja Pieweck Gemmy - Christina Gansch Ruodi - Nicola Amodio Leuthold - Bruno Vargas Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper _R2_1050
Guanqun Yu and Yosep Yang in Hamburg State Opera’s Guillaume Tell
(c) Brinkhoff/Mögenburg

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Herbert Fritsch’s King Arthur ̶ The Vulgar and the Sublime

13/03/201607/03/2016 by Rick Perdian

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Purcell, King Arthur: Soloists, Chorus, Orchestra La Scintilla, Laurence Cummings (conductor),  Zürich Opernhaus, Zurich, 3.3.2016. (RP)

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Gripping, High Drama in Chelsea Opera Group’s Il Trovatore

09/03/201601/03/2016 by Rick Perdian

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Verdi, Il Trovatore: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Chelsea Opera Group, Deborah Miles-Johnson (chorus master), Andrew Greenwood (conductor), Cadogan Hall, London, 28.2.2016. (RP)

COG’s Il Trovatore Marianne Cornetti (Azucena) (c) Robert Workman

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Modern, Minimalist, Misogynistic Rigoletto Packs a Punch

20/02/201616/02/2016 by Rick Perdian

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Verdi, Rigoletto: Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonie Zurich, Antonello Allemandi (conductor), Zürich Opernhaus, Zurich, 14.2.2016. (RP)

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Leif Ove Andsnes’ Lyrical Schumann ̶ Perfect with a Bit of Poetry and a Glass of Wine

17/02/201613/02/2016 by Rick Perdian

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Schumann: Tonhalle Orchestra, Hazel Brugger (slam poet), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Lionel Bringuier (conductor), Tonhalle Zurich, 11.02.2016. (RP)

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Leif Ove Andsnes (c) Özgür Albayrak

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Back to the Seventies! Wolfgang Rihm’s Impressive and Incomprehensible Die Hamletmaschine

28/02/201610/02/2016 by Rick Perdian

SwitzerlandSwitzerland Rihm: Die Hamletmaschine:  Soloists, Chorus of the Zurich Opera, Philharmonie Zurich, Gabriel Feltz (conductor), Zürich Opernhaus, Zurich, 07.02.2016 (RP)

Rihm: Die Hamletmaschine, Zurich (c) Tanja Dorendorf
Rihm: Die Hamletmaschine, Zurich
(c) Tanja Dorendorf

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