#johanna wallroth

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Rheingau Musik Festival - Klaus Mäkelä e la Oslo-filharmonien

Foto ©Ansgar Klostermann Dopo le belle impressioni dello scorso anno, anche quest’ estate ho deciso di fare un paio di viaggi sino a Wiesbaden per assistere ai concerti del Rheingau Musik Festival, Continue reading Untitled

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Good day/night, I have a fc request if you please. I was wondering if you could perhaps give a list of women in their 20s who are able to sing soprano? I completely understand if this is a challenge ask and you need to deny it. Thank you!

Laura Macrì (1990)

Margarita Levchuk (1990)

Hazel English (1990)

Mélissa Petit (1990)

Christina Gansch (1990)

Sarah Hyland (1990)

Emma Watson (1990)

Vérité (1990)

Phillipa Soo (1990) Chinese / White.

Rina Sawayama (1990) Japanese - is pansexual and bisexual.

Alexandra Flood (1990)

Esther Dierkes (1990)

Courtney Marie Andrews (1990)

Heather Engebretson (1990) Chinese-American.

Sarah Aristidou (1991)

Ari Lennox (1991) African-American.

Adrianne Lenker (1991) - is queer.

Elsa Dreisig (1991)

Jessie Reyez (1991) Colombian.

Fatma Said (1991) Egyptian.

Adriana González (1991) Guatemalan.

Monika Buczkowska (1992)

Seo Hye-lin (1993) Korean.

Juniel (1993) Korean.

Johanna Wallroth (1993)

Maria Mudryak (1994) Kazakh.

Minzy (1994) Korean.

Anna Nekhames (1995)

Joy (1996) Korean.

Zara Larsson (1997) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Becky G (1997) Mexican – including Spanish [Andalusian, Aragonese, Asturian, Cantabrian, Castilian, Extremaduran, Leonese, and Valencian], Indigenous, Basque, Galician, and African, as well as distant Portuguese, remote German and Italian.

Ravyn Lenae (1999) Panamanian.

Jackie Evancho (2000)

Maisie Peters (2000) - has spoken up for Palestine!

Rachel Zegler (2001) Colombian - has spoken up Palestine!

Any Gabrielly (2002) Afro Brazilian.

Olivia Rodrigo (2003) Filipino (three eighths), English, Irish, German, small amount of Austrian.

Madison Nonoa (?) Samoan, Niuean, and Pākehā.

Some are classical and some are non-classical!

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Orfeus och Eurydike

Saw a candle-lit performance of Glück’s opera at the historical Swedish theater Confidencen the other day. Quite nice, the small orchestration made the singing stand out in a delightful way. The ending is marred by having a forced “happy end”, which is apparently because it was composed for a wedding back in nthe day.

Solists: Orfeus – Maria Sanner Eurydike – Albina Isufi Amor – Johanna Wallroth

Adorable Amor and very good Orpheus (alto). One review called it fairly static, which yes, it was, but there were some well-used ballet interludes (two girls who were Countryside Girls, Birds of Paradise and Dead Souls, if I interpret their costumes correctly). During Eurydike’s final song, her sorrow and heartbreak really comes through. I really liked the classical scenography too.

Stockholm has two roccoco-style theater houses that put up “opera as during Gustavus III time”. The other one is Drottningholm, which has the original machinery and sets saved, but which also suffers from much worse ventilation and extremely uncomfortable seats. Confidences, originally built in 1753, was closed down, remodeled into a sort of hunting lodge and the theater machinery was stripped out. It’s been restored and rebuilt during the 20th century, but the result is that they could modernize the backstage a little bit - and they also have better chairs.

Both have had high quality singers when I’ve been there and so, unless you have back/overheating issues, I’d pick based on the performances. There are no text machines at either theater.

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Don Giovanni (Berwaldhallen 2020) - "La ci darem la mano"

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