Semiramide, Penelope and Salome in the not so distant future
I guess everybody knows by now that JDD had to pull out of the European dates of the Ariodante tour. But there will be plenty of JDD in London later this year, as Semiramide is finally taking place this November at ROH and she has two dates and a Masterclass scheduled at Wiggy at the end of that production.
ROH returns to the Roundhouse for Il ritorno d’Ulisse (Christine Rice as Penelope) next January, which gives yours truly hope that in a year or two we’ll see a Poppea at the Roundhouse as well 😉 you never know. The news about this Ulisse has somehow bypassed me thus far so it was very welcome today.
January is for once busy, as Salome is about as well. Can’t say I’m the biggest Byström fan, but Michaela Schuster is Herodias. Now that I’m older and wiser I’d really like to see her again in Die Frau ohne Schatten. But I suppose she can do ornery as well 😉
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Posted on April 12, 2017, in royal opera house and tagged ariodante, handel, il ritorno d'ulisse in patria, monteverdi, richard strauss, rossini, salome, semiramide. Bookmark the permalink. 46 Comments.
opera, innit? 
i’m eyeing that Ulisse! though i’m not too optimistic about seeing Christine Rice as Nerone due to recent casting tilt… so they’ll likely put her for Ottavia or whatever and bring in some guy with “proper male body” for the other roles…
aaarh, you didn’t link dates? i’ll have to run to look for when C.Rice is singing again.. to see if it works out for same trip to see MP + Hallenberg in Wien..
You could catch the Jan 21 show (last one of the run) and make the trip.
jeah, i saw 🙂 . likely will do that.. though i always need to start 2 days before to end up there.. so i’ll spill into 9-ish days instead of 7-ish..
S.Mingardo is in a production for Ulisse in Oct in Hamburg, i’m scheming my way there…
what dates in Hamburg?
29/Oct to 11/Nov, link. I might catch the last 3 shows.. but will wait for other haus’ schedules to open, in case i can chase after MP and others at the same time 🙂
ah, a bit early. Otherwise you could’ve intersected with Semiramide here but it starts on 19 November.
the annoying thing is she could sing Ottavia. Well, this is all speculation at this point, I didn’t hear any talk of Ulisse back when Orfeo happened in 2015. Who know how things could stand in 2019-20?
on 7/May at 6pm CET, 5pm your time, there’ll be a live vid stream of Poppea from Schwetzingen festival, with our newly found mezzo in the (now very) rare role of Nerone. I’ll set up the capturing machine and watch live.. the recent wave of non-mezzo casting brought home more to me the point of trying to chase after JDD + Prina while i can..
is this live streaming easy to catch? Medici.tv?
link directly from the festival itself! i am hoping i won’t get geoblocked..
thanks 🙂 it’s good that it’s so early, I’m working that night but will catch quite a bit this way (and if I have no problems getting in).
beginning bits are nice 😉
yes! but so is the end. Happy capture! Who’s the super mezzo?
please check Anik’s latest post 🙂
Hey, I looked up the ROH Semiramide and it seems from the length of performance that it is not further cut after all, so the same version as in Munich (which did cut an Idreno aria, bad enough because Brownlee is fabulous).
I am looking forward to hearing Brownlee live, as much as he has to sing (can’t for the life of me think of any of Idreno’s arias… not with two mezzos in the mix 😉 ).
scouting report: live video stream of Ariodante this sunday from Carnegie hall: http://verdiprati.tumblr.com/post/159973830994/live-broadcast-of-ariodante-from-carnegie-hall
sweet 😀 so that’s what, 10pm here?
We were just talking about a possible live-blog over at Anik’s.
can’t be 10pm? it’s a matinee, 2pm or 3pm in NY, so add 4 hours to make it your time?
(ps +5 to make your time, not 4 :-).. but it seems you’re right, because Agathe is saying something about “middle of the night”.. which I don’t understand because for sure it’s a matinee i thought.. better be, i have a flight out the same night…)
hm, looks like 7pm. That’s not good for me as I’m working, though I’ll see what I can do.
you can join later. I think Anik is going to do a live-blogging event, and i’ll be waving from inside the hall.
🙂
So sorry for causing this confusion, I just read 8pm and thought it was local time. But it’s clarified now I think?
yes, Medici helps you match the time of the performance with your timezone 🙂
oh, i was only raising alarm because i had booked a flight that night and got worried if you both were correct then clearly i should be at the concert instead of airport 🙂
Oh no, so sorry! Those moments of shock when you think for a moment the time or date on your ticket is wrong…
perhaps one of you ladies will tape the event? I can’t get out of work in time.
Sorry, I don’t have a recording device (need to do something about that), but the last medici streaming we watched was on replay and downloadable, so maybe this one as well?
Aha, that is good news! 😀 there is no reason this shouldn’t be, right? I will be home around 9:30pm my time, but that’s 2 hours in.
no sweat, i was quite sure i checked the time right 😉
reminded me of the time Eyes sent out her “happy friday” post, and i frantically checked the schedule coz it was thurs and i was supposed to be on a flight on fri
(i’m checking flight tix price in the case VK stepped in…)
stepped in where?
(Ariodante , u know, a (WS) girl can dream..)
ha, would be nice. Any VK would be nice, I miss her.
(AC is recovering from something.. and the WS crowd is worried they’re gonna cast a damnation (otherwise known as CT..) for the role..)
Don’t mezzos pass each other these roles? Far as I know Bicket has been mezzo-friendly.
yeah, they now have each other’s cell-phone number memorized, have to be quick, before the job is taken due to leakage…
was just told Bicket has casted a CT for a future Rinaldo in 2018.. so much for mezzo-friendly. i really think if any mezzo is ever sick for her run the CTs would be flooding in…
yea, it’s the Barbican one. He is mezzo friendly, though, he conducted the Alcina with 3 mezzos 😀
(and the current one with a mezzo and a contralto 🙂 . i listened the other night to A.Coote’s Nerone and i really like her phrasing. For some reason i identify more with her singing that with S.Connolly.. i think it must have been the heft of the voice.. same way i identify with ACA and MP voices. In any case, you’re getting ready for 2 Ariodante!)
I love her Nerone and that production in general 😀 she’s more fiery than Connolly, SC is super typical British, AC not quite so much. Yes, the heft is nice as well.
you know, WP is being annoying. It didn’t actually flag your posts (orange dot), I only realised you posted seeing I had comments on the stats page).
with that downloader, I suppose I need the converter too? Because it tells me it’s a “part file” even if I let it play until the end (which I did last night! Great show even on second viewing).
(before my bed time.. no, you’re not supposed to need any converter. it should jus take it as is. when it says “part”, it means it was in the middle of downloading… but there can be time when the downloader got stuck. It is completely independent of whether you play the video fully or not. What matters i think is that you have to start playing just so the program can sniff a bit for what videos are avail. sort of the same way you download tube video w/o needing real-time watching… but no worries, i can share with you my version.. but i might have to split the file coz it’s pretty big 5gb and i don’t have that much room in db. or since you’re going to wien.. you can bring your 8gb stick along if you have and just ask Anik for the copy 🙂 ).
WP has been doing a lot of annoying things lately, demanding more and more storage on computer.. and messing around w/ flash blah blah. there was nearly a full day on sunday where i couldn’t see anything in reader mode on the computer! but could see ok on tiny puny phone..
and jeah, i like A.Coote’s take and singing a lot. i had a hard time handeling DeNese’s sort of singing though, grrr :-).
thanks! don’t worry, it’s no rush, I can fiddle with it later, the file will be up for a while. I’ll let you know if I simply can’t figure it out.
DeNiese is more for eyecandy 😉