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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
[…] her with hands stuffed in his tracksuit pockets looking rather perplexed and amused. Then the famed couple, solemnly declaring their eternal love for each other, put all the vocal energy that exists between them into a majestic rendering of that great and telling number 'Leuchtende Liebe, Lachender Tod' (Radiant Love, Laughing Death) to a thunderous reception from a packed and appreciative house of seasoned and knowledgeable Wagnerians. When one arrives at Götterdämmerung the Norms (Marina Prudenskaya, Kristina Stanek, Anna Samuil) are by now crotchety old women hobbling about fudging in their handbags dressed in the comfy style of old grannies bent over and crippled with arthritis and, like Wotan, aided by walking-sticks. There's no evidence of them weaving the Rope of Destiny recalling the halcyon days of Wotan's reign and predicting the fall of Valhalla. But as they enjoy afternoon tea in Siegfried and Brünnhilde's well-furnished, custom-designed apartment, where […]
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 […]
2024-01-05 17:27:00
Der Rosenkavalier, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2 January 2024
Die Feldmarschallin, Fürstin Werdenberg – Julia Kleiter Der Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau – Günther Groissböck Octavian – Marina Prudenskaya Herr von Faninal – Roman Trekel Sophie – Golda Schultz Jungfer Marianne Leitmetzerin – Anna Samuil Valzacchi – Karl-Michael Ebner Annina – Katharina Kammerloher Police Officer – Friedrich Hamel The Marschallin’s Major-domo – Florian Hoffmann Faninal’s Major-domo – Johan Krogius House Servant – Jens-Eric Schulze Notary – Dionyios Avgerinos Landlord – Johan Krogius Singer – Andrés Moreno Garcia Milliner – Regina Koncz Vendor of Pets – Michael Kim Leopold – Oliver Chwat Lackeys, Waiters – Sooongoo Lee, Felipe Martin, Insoo Hwoang, Thomas Vogel Three noble orphans – Olga Vilenskaia, Anna Woldt, Verena Albertz Lerchenauschen – Peter Krumow, Stefan Livland, Mike Keller, Thomas Vogel, Ben Bloomfeld, Andreas Neher Paper artist – Tomas Höfer Mohammed – Joseph UmohDirector – André HellerAssistant director – Wolfgang SchillySet designs – Xenia Hausner, Nanna NeudeckCostumes – Arthur Arbesser, […]
2023-07-17 08:03:00
Médée, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 16 July 2023
Médée – Sonya Yoncheva Jason – Charles Castronovo Créon – Peter Schöne Dircé – Slavá Zámečníková Néris – Marina Prudenskaya Dircé’s Handmaidens – Regina Koncz, Maria Hegele Children of Jason and Médée – Fritz Bachmann, Nathan Kamsu Andrea Breth (director)Martin Zehetgruber (set designs)Carla Teti (costumes)Olaf Freese (lighting)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright)Staatskapelle BerlinOksana Lyniv (conductor)Images: Bernd Uhlig Cherubini’s best-known and surely greatest opera, Médée, continues to hover on the edge of the repertory. It had a high-profile outing in Salzburg in 2019, about which production if not performance the less said the better. The previous year, Andrea Breth’s staging came to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden. I missed it then, but caught (just) its first revival in February 2020, shortly before theatres closed for longer than any of us ever imagined. Now it receives its second revival and will feature next season too. I caught it just in time, making not […]
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