The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Simon Rattle
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* Notes * The day before Thanksgiving last week I went to hear Maestro Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic play a second performance at Davies Hall on their current tour. The concerts mark Rattle's farewell as principal conductor as he will not extend his contract when it ends in 2018. The orchestra sounded clean…
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August 29 2009- April 5 2010: Tristan und IsoldeSeptember 6- October 10 2009: La TraviataSeptember 5- November 14 2009: Il Barbiere di Siviglia September 7-22 2009: Die Entführung aus dem SerailSeptember 15-17 2009: Così fan Tutte September 23- October 25 2009 : Der RosenkavalierOctober 1- April 23 2010: SalomeOctober 24 2009- March 30 2010: Simon Boccanegra November 1-15 2009: LohengrinNovember…
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September 9 2009: Gala with Lang Lang (Liszt, Ravel, Rodgers, Prokofiev) September 10-12 2009: Liszt, Ravel, Rodgers, Prokofiev September 16-20 2009: Susan Graham sings Rückert-Lieder, Mahler's 1st September 23-26 2009: Thomas Hampson sings Mahler September 30- October 3 2009: Scelsi's Hymnos, Mahler's 5thOctober 7-10 2009: Brett Dean, Haydn's 94th, BrahmsOctober 11 2009: Murray Perahia, pianoOctober 14-18…
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The Berlin Philharmonic is to play in Flughafen Tempelhof tonight. Sir Simon Rattle conducts Berlioz’s La Mort de Cléopâtre and Symphonie fantastique, with Susan Graham as the soloist for the former. The damage to the Philharmonic’s building last week was not as bad as feared, and the Grosser Saal was not harmed. AP Article | AFP Article
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* Notes * This season's final performance of Pelléas et Mélisande at Staatsoper Unter den Linden was last Wednesday. The 1991 production, the work of one Ruth Berghaus, is truly absurd. Hartmut Meyer's set and costumes were both contributed to the folly. The set consists of a downstage mound with a hole in it, which…
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