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...King Heinrich marches into a small town on the pretext of peacekeeping (sound familiar?) and has soon taken over....
...Krzysztof Bączyk is Faust, lost lover Heinrich and Grand Inquisitor all at once, a menacing blind man in white. He presides over a convent full of schoolgirl clones of Renata. All is not well....
...Georg Zeppenfeld is a König Heinrich of rare charisma and authority, unlike Tomasz Konieczny’s Telramund, who tends to bark....
...Der zerbrochene Krug, a spare and eloquent setting of Heinrich von Kleist’s classic play, was written two years earlier, just before his deportation to Theresienstadt, but not performed until 1996....
...Wolfgang Koch and Evelyn Herlitzius make a wonderfully dark yet nuanced pair of evildoers as Telramund and Ortrud, René Pape warms from a weary to an authoritative Heinrich, while Edith Haller, replacing...
...Then ChorWerk Ruhr begins to sing the music of Heinrich Schütz, an early baroque cry to God from the anguish of the Thirty Years’ War, and you feel, to borrow a cliché, as though you have died and gone to...
...The choir gathers at the back of the auditorium while the stage lights, lowered, blaze painfully at the audience, and the thunderous cry of “Heil, König Heinrich! Heil!”...
...Ingeborg Bachmann re-worked Heinrich von Kleist’s text for Henze, excising the militarism, smoothing the edges, rendering it timeless....
...Lohengrin is Barenboim’s party piece, from the ethereal delicacy of the overture to the marshal thunder of Heinrich’s army, and the Scala orchestra plays for him as if it were born to it....
...It was heartening to see the Berlin audience erupt into loud applause for this complex, edgy work after giving such a tired ovation to Heinrich Kaminski’s supposedly “accessible” Dorische Musik before the...
...Frederick the Great and his brother Heinrich wallowed in music here in the 18th century....
...This might be one reading of Carl Heinrich Graun’s 1755 opera Montezuma, for which Frederick the Great planned the libretto. The piece is an oddity, progressive for its time, peculiar in its subject....
...No role is less than superbly cast, from Christof Fischesser’s regal Heinrich to Wolfgang Koch’s intelligent Telramund. Vocally, this is a benchmark performance....
...Of the cast, Kwangchul Youn’s King Heinrich was the saving grace, a figure of warm solidity and vocal complexity....
...Heinrich von Kleist saw it that way, perturbed by the threat of female emancipation posed by the French Revolution, and he turned out such a gruesome play on the subject that even Goethe was repulsed....
...Its librettist, “Ernst Rosmer”, was actually Elsa Bernstein, Jewish daughter of Wagner’s choirmaster, Heinrich Porges....
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