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Commemorations 2024 (Death: Anton Rubinstein)
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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
[…] thirsts for knowledge and power by garnering scientific data (his 'gold' so to speak!) through an elaborate and detailed assortment of experiments surrounding the human condition (mind-boggling!) and its behavioural patterns which resurrected in my thinking the human medical experiments carried out on selected prisoners of the Third Reich. The mighty Rhine is miles away in this production and when one first come across those adorable Rhinemaidens (Woglinde: Evelin Novak; Wellgunde: Natalia Skrycha; Floßhilde: Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein) they're reimagined by Tcherniakov as white-coated lab assistants working as part of the ESCHE research team in the stress lab. Nonetheless, they still get up to their old tricks in teasing Alberich - the role so admirably sung and, indeed, so well-acted by Johannes Martin Kränzle - who's wired up all over the show with sensors to his head and strapped down to a medical-type reclining-padded chair receiving experimental treatment by a fluorescent […]
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 […]
2024-03-24 12:34:37
Pianist who won the Chopin competition at 19 and who had an intellectual approach to art and lifeThe Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, who has died aged 82, was one of the giants of the keyboard in the second half of the 20th century, and yet for all the respect he commanded, his playing was criticised throughout his career for being excessively cool and cerebral. When he took first prize at the 1960 Chopin competition in Warsaw, the chairman of the jury, Artur Rubinstein, declared: “That boy plays better than any of us jurors.” But that success proved to be only the prelude to the first controversial event of his career. He withdrew from the international concert circuit for 18 months to broaden his repertoire and develop other cultural interests. It was not until nearly the end of the decade that his performance schedule achieved a normal rhythm, but his full return […]
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 […]
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