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Munich Opera Festival (2) - Semele, 18 July 2023
PrinzregententheaterSemele – Brenda RaeJupiter – Michael SpyresApollo – Jonas HackerAthamas – Jakub Józef OrlińskiJuno – Emily D’AngeloIno – Nadezhda KaryazinaIris – Jessica NilesCadmus, Somnus – Philippe SlyHigh Priest – Milan SiljanovClaus Guth (director) Michael Levine (designs) Gesine Völlm (costumes) Michael Bauer (lighting) rocafilm (video) Ramses Sigl (choreography) Yvonne GeBauer, Christopher Warmuth (dramaturgy) Bavarian State Orchestra LauschWerk (chorus director: Sonja Lachenmayr) Gianluca Capuano (conductor) Images: Monika Rittershaus I was sceptical, I admit, for the first two acts of Claus Guth’s new production of Semele, but it came together and offered an anthropological and psychoanalytical interpretation of Handel’s opera such as I have not encountered before. It is not really my way of thinking, but that is neither here nor there. And what I had initially seen as a disappointingly ‘stylish’ (that is, stylish, but not much more) production, rather in the manner of Christof Loy, albeit with suggestions of something closer […]
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