Ausrine Stundyte, Nikolai Schukoff, John Lundgren, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Marc Albrecht
Dutch National Opera presents Alexander von Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Tragodie (1917), with Marc Albrecht conducting the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and Ausrine Stundyte (Bianca), Nikolai Schukoff (Guido Bardi) and John Lundgren (Simone) as soloists. Eine florentinische Tragodie (1917) fully adheres to George Bernard Shaw's famous dictum that every opera is "when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone". Yet Zemlinsky's piece presents this core narrative in its most condensed form, and its conclusion is one of the most original and enigmatic in opera history. This suspenseful, opulent score is in good hands with Marc Albrecht and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, whose proficiency in late-Romantic repertoire was crowned with a 221 Opus Klassik Award for their recording of Zemlinsky's symphonic poem Die Seejungfrau. The three soloists are all seasoned in Wagnerian and late-Romantic repertoire, having appeared on the world's greatest opera stages. Oper! Magazine has crowned Dutch National Opera as Opera House of the Year 224, an accolade that the company also received from the International Opera Awards in 216.
Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942)
John Lundgren is the vengeful merchant, by turns vicious and oleaginous as he wheedles his rival. If the voice is expressive rather than lyric that’s all to the good and in contrast to Nikolai Schukoff's Prince, who is all assumed good manners and upper-class disdain.
Albrecht – an established specialist in this repertoire from the first decades of the 20th century – [is] unafraid to unleash his orchestra to full effect.
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