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lördag 8 augusti 2015

ANNA LARSSON, alt




Biografi

Repertoar

Diskografi  cd/dvd

House of Opera

Premiere Opera

Priser och utmärkelser


Recensioner


Castelucci's Parsifal in Brussels (Opera Cake)

I did not know Anna Larsson before, except for her Fricka in The Ring by La Fura dels Baus, so she was actually my surprise of the day in Brussels. At first her voice appears as velvety mezzo (close to Nadia Krasteva), and then in Act-2, all of a sudden, she reaches to a high register and her voice almost changes completely -- it changes in color,  becomes very luminous, but very plain. To that add her growing intensity that was more than  welcome dramatically, and you have a girl who rocks in her first take on Kundry. BRAVA

George Loomis: Wagner, Sleek but Deep (New York Times)

She was vivid in her confrontation with Parsifal and dealt with the upper reaches of the music excitingly.

Andrew Clemens (The Guardian)

Göteborgs Symfoniker (GP)



Audio/Video

Isoldes kärleksdöd (Tristan och Isolde)


Erdas varning (Rheinguldet)


Siegfried (Erda)




Parsifal (Kundry)







lördag 6 juni 2015

BIRGITTA SVENDÉN, alt




RECENSIONER:

Donal Henahan: Review/Opera; Wagner's 'Rheingold,' Harbinger of Met 'Ring' (NYT)

The night's only other debutante was Birgitta Svenden, a rich-toned Swedish mezzo, as Erda.

Presto Classical: Wagner, Siegfried, Levine (GRAMOPHONE

They, the Rhinemaidens and the lesser gods – especially Birgitta Svendén's keenvoiced Erda – outclass their betters. 


INTERVJUER:


Diana Holmberg: Birgitta Svendén (HD)



DISKOGRAFI:




Das Rheingold, New York, 1990 (WeicheWottan)