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...Having the great Waltraud Meier in a double-act as Waltraute and Second Norn was luxury indeed....
...It was the electrifying entry of bass René Pape in the finale – with Anna Samuil, Waltraud Meier and Michael König in the vocal quartet – that jolted everybody out of their malaise....
...Mendes wants to combine a Bourne-like lack of quips and frippery with Christopher Nolan-ish solemnity and gigantism – as manifested in scenes of a well-bred orphan brooding, the presence of a 1960s star (Albert...
...In a hushed and darkened Royal Albert Hall the intimate dialogue seemed the perfect statement of everything for which West-Eastern Divan Orchestra stands....
...Barenboim’s response is interrupted, first, by the star of last night’s Fidelio, the great German soprano Waltraud Meier, breezing in to pay her compliments; then by the arrival of a tapas-style selection...
...Tenor Mark Duffin stars as the protagonist under Christoph Ulrich Meier’s baton, and the production is scheduled to run in repertory until May 2. www.bremertheater.com SydneyMonet and the Impressionists...
...Christopher Ventris takes the part of the “blameless fool” who brings salvation, while Waltraud Meier is Kundry, his would-be seducer....
...How do you top two days in which you (1) recreate the temple of Venus and Rome in the middle of the Colosseum for a dinner; (2) stage a career-spanning show at the Richard Meier museum that encloses the...
...Additional reporting by Isabell Hülsen and Lutz Meier in Berlin...
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