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2024-03-27 08:09:00
Revisiting Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring cycle proved a thrilling experience: Dmitri Tcherniakov's production returns to Unter den Linden with conductor Philippe Jordan
[…] in his tracksuit pockets looking rather perplexed and amused. Then the famed couple, solemnly declaring their eternal love for each other, put all the vocal energy that exists between them into a majestic rendering of that great and telling number 'Leuchtende Liebe, Lachender Tod' (Radiant Love, Laughing Death) to a thunderous reception from a packed and appreciative house of seasoned and knowledgeable Wagnerians. When one arrives at Götterdämmerung the Norms (Marina Prudenskaya, Kristina Stanek, Anna Samuil) are by now crotchety old women hobbling about fudging in their handbags dressed in the comfy style of old grannies bent over and crippled with arthritis and, like Wotan, aided by walking-sticks. There's no evidence of them weaving the Rope of Destiny recalling the halcyon days of Wotan's reign and predicting the fall of Valhalla. But as they enjoy afternoon tea in Siegfried and Brünnhilde's well-furnished, custom-designed apartment, where the famed couple are […]
2024-03-25 23:45:00
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 18, 19, 21, and 24 March 2024
Images: Monika RittershausBrünnhilde (Anja Kampe)Wotan/Wanderer – Tomas Konieczny Donner, Gunther – Roman Trekel Froh – Siyabonga Maqungo Loge – Rolando Villazón Fricka – Claudia Mahnke Freia – Anett Fritsch Erda, Rossweisse – Anna Kissjudit Alberich – Johannes Martin Kränzle Mime – Stephan Rügamer Fasolt – Matthew Rose Fafner – Peter Rose Woglinde – Evelin Novak Wellgunde – Natalia Skrycka Flosshilde, Siegrune – Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Siegmund – Robert Watson Sieglinde – Vida Miknevičutė Hunding – René Pape Brünnhilde – Anja Kampe Gerhilde – Clara Nadeshdin Helmwige – Christiane Kohl Waltraute – Michal Doron, Violeta Urmana Schwertleite – Alexandra Ionis Ortlinde, Third Norn – Anna Samuil Grimgerde – Aytaj Shikhalizada Siegfried – Andreas Schager Woodbird – Victoria Randem Hagen – Stephen Milling Gutrune – Mandy Friedrich First Norn – Marina Prudenskaya Second Norn – Kristina StanekDirector – Dmitri TcherniakovRevival directors – Lilli Fischer, Thorsten CölleCostumes – Elena ZaytsevaLighting – Gleb FilshtinskyVideo – Alexey […]
2024-02-06 18:50:00
Rusalka, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 4 February 2024
Rusalka – Christiane Karg Prince – Pavel Černoch Foreign Princess – Anna Samuil Vodník – Mika Kares Ježibaba – Anna Kissjudit Gamekeeper – Adam Kutny Kitchen Boy – Clara Nadeshdin Nymphs – Regina Koncz, Rebecka Wallroth, Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Huntsman – Taehan Kim Director – Kornél MundruczóDesigns – Monika PormaleLighting – Felice RossVideo – Rūdolfs BaltiņšChoreography - Candaş BaşDramaturgy – Kata Wéber, Christoph Lang Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinRobin Ticciati (conductor)Images: Gianmarco BresadolaRusalka (Christiane Karg) Director Kornél Mundruczó comes like a breath of fresh air to unsettle our conceptions of Dvořák’s last and, by some way, greatest opera and thus to do precisely what the material demands; or rather, it comes as something bitterly stale, menacing, even poisonous to accomplish what fresh air on its own might not be able. It is certainly refreshing, though it should not be, to have a production that takes class seriously as a form of […]
2024-01-05 17:27:00
Der Rosenkavalier, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2 January 2024
Die Feldmarschallin, Fürstin Werdenberg – Julia Kleiter Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau – Günther Groissböck Octavian – Marina Prudenskaya Herr von Faninal – Roman Trekel Sophie – Golda Schultz Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin – Anna Samuil Valzacchi – Karl-Michael Ebner Annina – Katharina Kammerloher Police Officer – Friedrich Hamel The Marschallin’s Major-domo – Florian Hoffmann Faninal’s Major-domo – Johan Krogius House Servant – Jens-Eric Schulze Notary – Dionyios Avgerinos Landlord – Johan Krogius Singer – Andrés Moreno Garcia Milliner – Regina Koncz Vendor of Pets – Michael Kim Leopold – Oliver Chwat Lackeys, Waiters – Sooongoo Lee, Felipe Martin, Insoo Hwoang, Thomas Vogel Three noble orphans – Olga Vilenskaia, Anna Woldt, Verena Albertz Lerchenauschen – Peter Krumow, Stefan Livland, Mike Keller, Thomas Vogel, Ben Bloomfeld, Andreas Neher Paper artist – Tomas Höfer Mohammed – Joseph UmohDirector – André HellerAssistant director – Wolfgang SchillySet designs – Xenia Hausner, Nanna NeudeckCostumes – Arthur Arbesser, […]
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