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Iolanta

Pëtr Tjajkovskij

Reviews (3)

Klassisk

2013, nr. 28

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Andrew Mellor

2013, nr. 28

"Sellars og Currentzis har begået en milepæl med Tjajkovskijs sjældent opførte opera fra 1892 over det danske skuespil 'Kong Renés datter' om en kvinde, der hverken ved, at hun er blind eller prinsesse. Instruktøren er usædvanligt lydhør over for partituret, og dirigenten fremmaner en intens ro i pagt med tabuet om at ... ingen [i kongeriget] må tale om lys eller syn ... Der er heller ingen svage led vokalt set ... Efter pausen kommer Stravinskijs 'Perséphone' ... fascinerende og smuk ... Men da dvd'en var slut, var det 'Jolante', jeg måtte opleve igen. Jeg har ikke set en mere bevægende, provokerende, velsunget, smukt spillet, fint ageret eller genialt instrueret opera på den lille skærm i mange, mange år".

The gramophone

2013 January

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Richard Lawrence

2013 January

"Iolanta is concerned with the transition from darkness to light ... The cast is led by Ekaterina Scherbachenko as a touching Iolanta ... But time and again one's attention is caught by Sellars's telling direction: faces suffused in light, faces caught in profile ... Persephone, also about light and dark, is staged with the same set ... Currentzis conducts both pieces impeccably: don't miss".

BBC music magazine

2013 March

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David Nice

2013 March

"Heroines Iolanta and Perséphone both move from a fearful darkness to light, on the same minimal set ... What clarity there is comes from the singers, matched in Perséphone by the intensity of tenor Paul Groves and the speaking heroine, Dominique Blanc".

Vurdering (performance): 4/5.

Vurdering (picture & sound): 3/5.