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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
[…] befitting his godly status. He 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 […]
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 […]
2024-01-21 14:35:00
Daphne, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 20 January 2024
Peneios – René PapeGaea – Anna KissjuditDaphne – Vera-Lotte BoeckerLeukippos – Johan KrogiusApollo – David Butt PhilipFour Shepherds – Arttu Kataja, Florian Hoffmann, Adam Kutuy, Friedrich HamelTwo Maids – Evelin Novak, Natalia SkryckaDirector, set design, costumes, lighting – Romeo Castellucci Revival director – José Dario Innella Choreography – Evelin Facchini Assistant director – Maxi Menja Lehmann Set design assistance – Lisa Behensky, Alessio Valmori Costume assistance – Clara Rosina Straßer, Theresa Wilson Lighting assistance – Marco GiustiStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Gerhard Polifka)Staatskapelle BerlinThomas Guggeis (conductor)Images: Monika RittershausDaphne (Vera-Lotte Boecker) Seen first last year, Romeo Castellucci’s production of Daphne receives its first revival. In one sense, it could hardly be more timely, snow falling outside in wintry landscapes across Berlin and beyond, as it does onstage. Yet that immediately presents a greater untimeliness to the mise-en-scène, for a modern snowscape seems perversely distant from the Thessalian pastoral of Joseph Gregor’s libretto […]
2023-08-30 06:28:00
[…] having a bit of fun kicking about large-coloured beach balls in a swimming pool (representing the Rhine) in the company of the poisonous dwarf Alberich along with a bunch of eight young girls (future Valkyries?) all dressed as look-alikes joining in what seems like harmless fun. The young charges (chaperoned by the Rhinemaidens) certainly gave Alberich (sung by Olafur Sigurdarson with gusto and flair) a good run for his money while the well-loved trio comprised Evelin Novak (Woglinde), Stephanie Houtzeel (Wellgunde) and Simone Schröder (Floßhilde). When the attention turns to Wotan, often threatening his foes with a revolver, he’s not seen in this production as a God as the libretto clearly states but acts more in keeping of, say, a company director or head of a family. However, in this pivotal role, Polish bass-baritone, Tomasz Konieczny, delivered the goods in no uncertain terms not only by his vocal prowess but also by […]
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