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2022-04-22 13:12:00
Orpheus/L'Orfeo, Komische Oper, 16 April 2022
(sung as Orpheus in German translation by Susanne Felicitas Wolf) Orfeo – Dominik Köninger Euridice – Josefine Mindus Amor – Peter Renz Sylvia/Proserpina – Maria Fiselier Plutone, Caronte – Tijl Faveyts Figures of Orpheus and Eurydice – Alexander Soehnle, Helen Schumann Dancers - Meri Ahmaniemi, Martina Borroni, Ana Dordevic, Zoltan Fekete, Michael Fernandez, Paul Gerritsen, Claudio Greco, Marcel Prét, Tara Rendell, Lorenzo SoragniBarrie Kosky (director)Katrin Lea Tag (designs)Katharina Tasch (costumes)Ulrich Lenz (dramaturgy)Otto Pichler (choreography)Alexander Koppelmann (lighting) Chorus (chorus master: David Caevlius) and Orchestra of the Komische OperMatthew Toogood (conductor)Amor (Peter Renz), Orpheus (Dominik Köninger)Images: Iko Freese / drama-berlin.deBarrie Kosky’s advent as Intendant of the Komische Oper in 2012 was marked by a twelve-hour ‘Monteverdi Trilogy’, in which the three extant Monteverdi operas were given in new productions and in newly composed realisations by Elena Kats-Chernin (also new German translations by Susanne Felicitas Wolf). Avid Monteverdian, especially in non-‘period’ guise, though I be, […]
2020-09-28 21:52:00
ALL ARTS Channel Broadcast – Monteverdi’s Orpheus. September 24, 2020.
Original Performance Date: September, 2012, Berlin Komische Oper. Story. See writeup on Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. In Gluck’s version Orpheus is successful in bringing Euridice out from hell. In Monteverdi’s retelling, Euridice disappears when Orpheus looks back at her, and Orpheus “leaves the world” to go to the heavens so he can see her in the stars. Conductor – Andre de Ridder; Orpheus – Dominik Koninger, Eurydike – Julia Novikova, Amor – Peter Renz, Sylvia/Proserpina – Theresa Kronthaler, Charon – Stefan Sevenic, Pluto – Alexey Antonov, Puppenspieler – Frank Soehnle. Explanatory note and caveat: Per the ALL ARTS website, Komische Oper Berlin staged three of Monteverdi’s operas in one single day, including Orpheus. Evidently the brainchild of the then new General Director Barry Kosky. The opera was translated into German, and the music was re-written to include both old and modern instruments (including the accordion). A search […]
2019-04-22 15:26:00
La bohème and Poro, Komische Oper, 19 and 20 April 2019
Komische Oper Image: Iko Freese/drama-berlin.de Mimì – Heather Engebretson Musetta – Hera Hyesang Park Rodolfo – Jonathan Tetleman Marcello – Huw Montague Rendall Schaunard – Michael Borth Colline – Samuli Taskinen Alcindoro – Carsten Sabrowski Parpignol – Emil Ławecki Merchant – Mathias Spenke Customs Sergeant – Jan-Frank Süße Customs Guard – Tim Dietrich Barrie Kosky (director) Rufus Didwiszus (set designs) Victoria Behr (costumes) Simon Berger (dramaturgy) Alessandro Carletti (lighting) Poros – Dominik Köninger Mahamaya – Ruzan Mantashyan Sir Alexander – Eric Jurenas Nimbavati – Idunnu Münch Gandharta – Philipp Meierhöfer Timagenes – João Fernandes Harry Kupfer (director) Hans Schavernoch (set designs) Yan Tax (costumes) Simon Berger (dramaturgy) Jürgen Hoffmann (lighting) Thomas Reimer (video) Children’s Chorus (chorus director: Dagmar Fiebach) and Chorus (chorus director: David Cavelius) of the Komische Oper, Berlin Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin Jordan de Souza and Jörg Halubeck […]
2018-12-21 07:30:46
A mash up of Gilbert & Sullivan and the Carry On films: Straus' The Pearls of Cleopatra at Berlin's Komische Opera
[…] Komische Oper in Berlin, I can clearly see why. When Lehár's popular operetta, The Merry Widow, premièred in 1905, Straus is said to have remarked ‘Das kann ich auch!’ (I can also do that!). Undoubtedly, he did!I caught Straus' The Pearls of Cleopatra at Berlin's Komische Oper on Thursday 13 December 2018, directed by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Adam Benzwi with the actress Dagmar Manzel as Cleopatra, plus Talya Lieberman, Johannes Dunz, and Dominik Köninger. Born into a Jewish family, Straus (who omitted the second ‘s’ from his surname to disassociate himself with the Strauss family of Vienna for professional reasons only) did, however, follow the advice of Johann Strauss II about abandoning the prospective lure of writing waltzes for the more lucrative business of writing for the theatre.His best-known works are Ein Walzertraum (A Waltz Dream) and The Chocolate Soldier (Der tapfere Soldat). The waltz arrangement from […]
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