Posted on 20 January 2025
Wow. Under the baton of Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, now music director designate of the Royal Opera, this was a terrific performance of Janáček’s opera Jenufa. As the emotional tension ratcheted up there is no doubt that the original play had been turned into a great opera — see my review in The Article.
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Posted on 15 February 2009
Cassandra, by the Italian composer Gnecchi, was written four years before Stauss’s Elektra. It tells of Agamemnon’s return to his wife Klytemnestra, who intends to kill him as revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia …
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Posted on 12 February 2009
I felt sorry for Manuela Uhl as Salome, because she didn’t come over well until the final scene, and was given no dance.
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