IOpera / Recenzii
Partaja
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | Company
Partaja
Der Diktator, Krenek
C: Warwick Stengards
The Dictator
"Christopher Hillier was outstanding as The Dictator. Both his voice and characterisation of a ruthless smooth-talking egoist were strongly projected and convincing".
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Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Ullmann
D: Gert Reifahrt
C: Peter Tregear
Dido and Aeneas / The Emperor of Atlantis
Two short operatic chamber works written more than two centuries apart with contrasting musical languages couldn’t better have been brought together in a new double bill. At Friday evening’s opening night, Melbourne-based IOpera’s inspired and unexpected marriage of English Baroque composer Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas (c. 1683) and Silesian-born, 20th century Austrian composer Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis (1943) proved to be both a stimulating and entertaining experience.
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