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Markens Grøde med Juni Dahr og Gard B. Eidsvold
7/24/15 •
STEIGEN/NORGE: Pionerforestillingen Markens Grøde med Juni Dahr og Gard B. Eidsvold har blitt vist på låver omkring i landet i 10 år. Neste gang skal de til Steigen, på låven på Holkestad kufarm 1. og 2. august.
GOLDMUND Strykekvartett i Vigeland-museet
7/24/15 •
OSLO/NORGE: Det blir litt av en kammermusikkbegivenhet når GOLDMUND Strykekvartett fra Tyskland opptrer i Vigeland-museet søndag 26.juli kl. 14. Kvartetten er en av de fremste yngre kvartetter internasjonalt og har vunnet en rekke priser. Den siste kom som vinnere av Schoenfeldt International Music Competition i Harbin, Kina i fjor.
Jonas Kaufmann and Die schõne Müllerin in Munich
7/22/15 •
MUNICH/GERMANY: One of the big highlight in the Festival programme this summer was Franz Schubert’ s Die schõne Müllerin to Wilhelm Mullers text. Bayerisches Statsoper was completely filled up, and even on top og the orchestre pit was placed five roads extra. For a world famouse opera singer as Jonas Kaufmann, to go in to the romance repertoire is quite a change from his usual wide operarepertoire. The romance technic is different and very difficult, and as the singer dont have any help from any others than his pianist and the text, it is a tuff jobb to form a demanding piece as the one today, as it is all depending on the singers hability to get the text to be alive. Review by Henning Høholt, text and applause photos
« Le lac des cygnes » by Moulin Rouge® and DUVELLEROY
7/22/15 •
PARIS/FRANCE: Maison Duvelleroy designers have create a new Moulin Rouge exclusive fashion accessory. A feather headband, inspired from Lac des Cygnes, designed to be worn on the neck. The shape is reminiscent of a bird wing. Hand crafted.
Lise Davidsen on topp in the Placido Domingo Oralia singing competition
7/22/15 •
LONDON/GREAT BRITAIN: For the very first time, the final round of Plácido Domingo’s competition Operalia 2015 took place on the stage of London’s Royal Opera House Covent Garden! Watch the replay of the Operalia Competition Awards Ceremony on medici.tv, the occasion to discover in preview tomorrow’s operatic talents! The only Nordic participant in the Finale was Lise Davidsen, she won the 1st female prize, the Audience Prize and the Birgit Nilsson prize.
Foto by Henning Høholt
Pelléas et Mélisande in Firenze with Daniele Gatti
7/21/15 •
The only opera written by Claude Debussy, forerunner of 20th Century music drama, never met in Italy with the favour of the masses certainly because of its refined and very special writing; nevertheless a good number of spectators attended this performance that we are reviewing on June 23rd, although the theater wasn’t sold out. The cast of this edition of Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande in Florence was entirely italian.. Review by Fabio Bardelli.
Restaurants in Brugge. Food, service and beverage.
7/18/15 •
BRUGGE/BELGIUM: With 5 million tourists every year to the small city Brugge, with only 46000 inhabitants. From where most of them are one day tourists, as the hotel capacity is limited with only beds. There are a very large amount of cafes and restaurans. Text and Photos: Henning Høholt
Høie of Scandinavia – Høie for velvære
7/15/15 •
OSLO/NORGE: Den deilige følelsen når du legger deg i helt nytt sengetøy. I sommer er det en ekstra grunn til å la drømmene gå i oppfyllelse. God kvalitet, lekre farger og nyanser, førsteklasses utførelse.
Imidlertid. Høsten nærmer seg også og da er også de nye kolleksjoner fra Høie på plass i butikkene. Av Henning Høholt
Belvedere Competition 2015
7/14/15 •
AMSTERDAM/NETHERLANDS: 4. July 2015. The results of this year’s Belvedere Finals at the Dutch National Opera & Ballet on Saturday night: 1st Prize: LEVY SEKGAPANE, Tenor, South Africa. 2nd Prize: LISE DAVIDSEN, Soprano, Norway. 3rd Prize: KI HUN PARK, Tenor, South Korea. In adition LISE DAVIDSEN also won the Prize of the International Media-Jury and the Prize of the Audience. By Henning Høholt, Foto: © Paul van Wijngaarden
ART Triennial in Brugge, Belgium
7/12/15 •
BRUGGE/BELGIUM: To visit Brugge for the first time, and enjoy how well this old city is being keept, the atmosphaere, the canals, the horses, and all the tourists, whoch were every where, but in a remarkable positive and well organized atmosphaere. Visited by Henning Høholt,
Opera de Nice – five opera highlights next season
7/11/15 •
NICE/FRANCE: The impressive opera building (1885) in Nice is filled with opera, ballet and concerts throughout the year. Now next season is final published, rather late compared to other companies, and with a colorful collection of repertory highlights and featuring strong personalities on stage. By Torkil Baden
CANDIDE by Leonard Bernstein in Firenze
7/10/15 •
FIRENZE/ITALY: “Comic operetta” is the definition that its author Leonard Bernstein gives of his work. The story was taken from Voltaire’s novel with the same title, the première was in Boston in 1956 after a long and laborious preparation. Bernstein’s wild omnivorous curiosity is here at its top, the musician contaminates operetta with afro-american music, Broadway with Bachian choral and with the so called “serious music” in an incredible music collage. But here the composer seems to find only in spare occasions his authentic inspiration, more often he seems short in creative spirit and choses the easier way of the “deja entendu”. Review by Fabio Bardelli. Photos MMF – Opera di Firenze
Back to Broadway at Scene 2
7/09/15 •
OSLO/NORWAY: Back to Broadway (2nd and 4th July) is a partially staged performance with highlights from the musical theater repertoire. World famous songs, duets and ensembles performed by participants. The show led from the piano by musical specialist Dan Getting together with the National Opera’s own soprano Eli Kristin Hansesveen. Review by Henning Høholt
Success for Die Walküre – workshop – Scene 2, Oslo
7/08/15 •
OSLO/NORWAY: 3. July 2015: Success for Die Walküre by Richard Wagner staged by Arild Helleland. With a star cast headed by Nina Gravrok and Thor Inge Falch, both at international standard, Falch also performing a very beautiful pianissimo. Closely followed by Megan Cullen as Brunnhilde, who was being better and better during the performance and in the end was excellent and Anna Einarsson good as Fricka. Jørgen Backer brilliant as Wotan. Odd Grundt was a safe choise as Hunding. Review by Henning Høholt
Labeque sisters at Theatre des Champs Elysees
7/07/15 •
PARIS/FRANCE: Katia and Marielle Labeque with Stravinsky, Mozart and Schubert.
The highlight came in the second part with Stravinskys Le Sacre du Printemps, which was performed with a lot of feeling and great energy. We last time enjoyed these two pianists in March 2011 in the same house. Review Henning Høholt
Britten: THE TURN OF THE SCREW in Florence
7/03/15 •
FIRENZE/ITALY: What terrible and unspeakable secret past and present does the home of Bly enclose? What happened or perhaps continues to happen so terrible and disturbing? And what meaning brings this work together complex and extraordinarily evocative? Review by Fabio Bardelli
Leipzig Strykekvartett i Vigeland-museet
7/02/15 •
OSLO/NORGE: For tredje år gjester den verdensberømte Leipzig Strykekvartett Vigeland-museet førstkommende søndag, 5. juli kl. 14. De vil fremføre Beethoven: Grosse Fuge og Schumanns Strykekvartett opus 41 nr 3. Dessuten vil de spille sammen med fiolinisten Ole Böhn Schuberts Rondo i A- dur for solofiolin og strykekvartett.
Lucas Cranach – 500 years jubilee
6/29/15 •
Lucas Cranach den yngre (1515-1586) – nest eldste sønn
av maleren Lucas Cranach den eldre (1472-1553) – ville fylt 500 år den 4. oktober 2015. Ved siden av Albrecht Dürer regnes de to Cranach-ene som Tysklands viktigste malere og grafikere fra renessansen.
Back to Broadway på Operaen, Scene 2
6/28/15 •
Back to Broadway er en delvis iscenesatt forestilling med høydepunkter fra musikkteater-repertoaret (utdrag fra Follies, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, A Chorus Line, Wicked, Company, Les Misérables, Cabaret m.fl.). Showet ledes fra klaveret av musikalspesialist Dan Gettinger, sammen med Nasjonaloperaens egen sopran Eli Kristin Hanssveen. 2. og 4. Juli 2015 kl. 18. Omtalt av Tomas Bagackas.
Philharmonie in Paris, opened January 2015
6/27/15 •
PARIS/FRANCE: To build a new concertcenter in Paris, has been a big job for the city and for the nation. After through decades having its central concert activities in the Heart of Paris at Salle Pleayel, now tge Philharmonie has been built, and were opened 23. of January in Port Pantin, as a part of Cité de la Musique, at Porte la Villette, where since 1995 there has been a concert hall, now called Philharmonie 2. Reviewed by Henning Høholt
MEZZO-FURIOSO at Champs Elysees
6/26/15 •
PARIS/FRANCE: An extraordinary experience in Paris, Mezzo Furioso at Théätre des Champs Élysées, wih music by Georg Friedrich Händel and Antonio Vivaldi : Airs d’opéras extraits de Serse, Orlando, Orlando Furioso… With Malena Ernman, Paula Murrihy, Sonia Prina, Ensemble Matheus, Conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi. Revieved by Henning Høholt
JOSEPH CALLEJA, star opera tenor at the very top!!!
6/25/15 •
PARIS/FRANCE: It is in some way very easy to be critic when the quality of a tenor and of an opera galla evevning is at the very top, and that was exactly what happend this Friday evening. 19.6. at Théâtre des Champs Élysées in concert with JOSEPH CALLEJA, our generations Luciano Pavarotti at the podium, with a dream program of the one famouse operae aria after another. — And seven 7 encores!!!. By Henning Høholt
MARIA STUART, a success in Paris
6/24/15 •
PARIS/FRANCE: Maria Stuart is one of the highlights among the operapremieres in the Paris season 2014/2015, which soon is ending. It is once again Theatre des Champs Elysees who is presenting this opera in a musically wonderful coproduction with Royal Opera House and others. Musical director is Daniele Callegari, staged by Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier. With Aleksandra Kurzak, lyric dramatic coloratur sopran, beautiful as Maria Stuart. Carmen Giannattasio, dramatic coloratur sopran, brilliant as Queen Elisabeth 1. Francesco Demuro, tenor, well singing as Robert Dudkeym The Count of Leicester.
Passion, power and religion are at the heart of the book by Donizetti. by Henning Høholt, fotos
The Taming of the Shrew won The Golden Mask in Moscow
6/24/15 •
MOSCOW/RUSSIA: The Taming of the Shrew coreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot, took three awards at the Golden Mask Festival awards ceremony on Saturday 18th, April, in Moscow.
Best Ballet production : The Taming of the shrew. Best Female dancer : Ekaterina Krysanova. Best Male dancer : Vladislav Lantratov
The New Philharmonie in Paris – a success
6/23/15 •
PARIS/FRANCE: April 23rd 2015. The Philharmonie de Paris, which is supported by the state and the City of Paris, aims to bring music to the widest possible audience through concerts, an educational programme, a museum, exhibitions and a host of fun activities for all the family.