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2023-09-17 15:59:00
Das Floß der Medusa, Komische Oper, 16 September 2023
Hangar 1, Tempelhof AirportImages: Jaro Suffner La Mort – Gloria Rehm Jean-Charles – Günter Papendell Charon – Idunnu Münch Four Dead – Takshiro Namiki, Taiki Miyashita, Yauci Yanes Ortega, Matthias Spenke, Fermin Basterra Thirteen Dying – Polly Ott, Agnes Dasch, Sarah Papodopoulo, Viola Weimker, Claudia Buhrmann, Orine Nosaki, Wiebke Kretzschmar, Martin Fehr, Christoph Eder, Hartmut Schröder, Martin Netter, Thomas Heiß, Werner Matusch Fourteen Surviving – Angela Postweiler, Uta Krause, Veronika Burger, Claudia van Hasselt, Julia Hebecker, Ulrike Jahn, Hans-Dierer Gilleßen, Michael Schaffrath, Matthias Eger, Laurin Oppermann, Philipp Schreyer, Simon Berg, Enrico Wenzel, Frank SchwemmerTobias Kratzer (director)Rainer Sellmaier (designs)Marguerite Donlon (choreography)Julia Jordà Stoppelhaar (dramaturgy)Lighting – Olaf FreeseSound design – Holger SchwarkChoir Soloists of the Komische Oper (director: David Cavelius)Movement Choir and Children’s Extras of the Komische OperVocalconsort BerlinStaats- und Domchor Berlin (director: Kai-Uew Jirka)Orchestra of the Komische Oper, BerlinTitus Engel (conductor)Henze’s Raft of the Medusa may lay claim to the […]
2023-08-25 08:13:00
Wagner: Tannhäuser - Le Gateau Chocolat - Bayreuth Festival (Photo: Bayreuther Festspiele / Enrico Nawrath)Wagner: Tannhäuser; Jens-Erik Aasbø, Markus Eiche, Günther Groissböck, Julia Grüter, Ekaterina Gubanova, Siyabonga Maqungo, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton, Olafur Sigurdarson, Elisabeth Teige, Klaus Florian Vogt; dir: Tobias Kratzer; cond: Nathalie Stutzmann; Bayreuth Festival Reviewed by Tony Cooper, 23 August 2023Katharina Wagner puts in a Hitchcock-style appearance in this compelling and telling production of Tannhäuser. This current production of Tannhäuser by Tobias Kratzer (which, incidentally, received its première in Dresden on 19th October 1845) chalks up the opera’s ninth staging at the Bayreuth Festival and was first seen in 2019. It’s now making its final bow following a four-year tenure on the Grüner Hügel. Surprisingly, no other work in the Wagner canon has received such few productions. By the way, Kratzer made his Bayreuth début with this production which, I feel, has lost none of its shine or momentum since I attended […]
2023-08-17 11:40:00
Bayreuth Festival (3) - Tannhäuser, 16 August 2023
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, 16.8.2023 (MB) Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia - Günter Groissböck Tannhäuser - Klaus Florian Vogt Wolfram von Eschenbach - Markus Eiche Walther von der Vogelweide - Siyabonga Maqungo Biterolf - Olafur Sigurdarson Heinrich der Schreiber - Jorge Rodriguez-Norton Reinmar von Zweter - Jens-Erik Aasbø Elisabeth - Elisabeth Teige Venus - Ekaterina Gubanova Young Shepherd - Julia Grüter Le Gateau Chocolat - Le Gateau Chocolat Oskar - Manni Laudenbach Pages - Cornelia Heil, Ekaterina Gubanova, Laura Margaret Smith, Karolin ZeinertTobias Kratzer (director)Rainer Sellmaier (designs)Manuel Braun (video)Reinhard Traub (lighting)Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy)Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus director: Eberhard Friedrich)Bayreuth Festival OrchestraNathalie Stutzmann (conductor) For my third and final Bayreuth performance this year, I revisited an old friend, Tobias Kratzer’s Tannhäuser. New when we met in 2019, it has weathered the pandemic storm and since assumed something close to classic status. Not that, like any of us during that or indeed any other […]
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