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Opera experiences

by german_eagle - last update: Jul 4, 2009

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Intermission at the Semper Opera house - time for people watching in the splendid lobby. Performance that night was DON CARLO (Verdi), a crappy production, but with excellent soloists, chorus and orchestra.
Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Florez
One of the highlights in my entire life as an opera lover was the premiere of RIGOLETTO (Verdi) with Zeljko Lucic, Diana Damrau and Juan Diego Florez, three of the top stars of the opera currently. The production was very good, too, the other soloists were excellent as well and the orchestra + chorus were good as usual.
RIGOLETTO - applause after the opera
From left: Fabio Luisi (conductor), Georg Zeppenfeld (Sparafucile), Juan Diego Florez (Duke of Mantua), Nikolaus Lehnhoff (director), Diana Damrau (Gilda), Zeljko Lucic (Rigoletto), Christa Mayer (Maddalena)
Juan Diego Florez signing CDs
Barber of Seville, applause afterwards
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE was another nice production I enjoyed at the Semper Opera - beautiful staging/costumes, excellent soloists.
Ismael Jordi, Edita Gruberova
Some of the best singing I have ever heard live was by Edita Gruberova - I had the pleasure to hear her at the Semper Opera twice. In 2008 right on my birthday she appeared for LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. I bet the madness scene can be done any better than by her that night.
Stage during the FLEDERMAUS
Very appropriate for New Year's Eve I attended a performance of FLEDERMAUS (The Bat) some years ago with my parents (before the tickets started rising outrageously for this special night). It was fabulous. Funny production, nothing for the prudes :-)
cast receiving final applause (OTELLO)
On 24 June 2009 I attended OTELLO at the Semperoper. Wonderful music, crappy production. Ok, I have seen worse productions. But there's a background action going on that totally distracts from the main action.

Anyway, the cast was in parts spectacular. Farnocchia (Desdemona), Gavanelli (Jago) and Kim (Cassio) were sensational. Especially the first two received huge ovations and bravi. I almost forgot to breathe when Desdemona had her aria in Act 4 (?). Lotric (Otello) was not very good, but he didn't ruin the evening either. The chorus was great as usual, the conductor (Zanetti), however, was a bit lame - no inspiration. But the singular instruments, horns and the celli e.g., were superb again.

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HORSCHECK Sun Nov 8, 2009 17:28 UTC
 Ingo, fabulantastic photo of Tharandt. It really seems to be off the beaten path, but on your photo it doesn't look to bad.
bugulma Wed Nov 4, 2009 15:59 UTC
 very beautiful fall shot. it seems like huge red-yellow mountain behind the town :-)
Kathrin_E Wed Nov 4, 2009 11:16 UTC
 Wow, schöne Herbststimmung in Farben und Licht! Liebe Grüße, Kathrin
yumyum Sun Oct 25, 2009 16:17 UTC
 Vielen Dank für deinen Besuch in Swinemünde! Grüsse aus dem Regen
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