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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
[…] Fafner (Peter Rose) - who, incidentally, studied in my home city of Norwich at the University of East Anglia - got the better of his greedy brother, Fasolt (Matthew Rose) - brothers in crime only! - by the help of a handgun. Another bullet to the head and another nod to Frank Castorf, too, while Anna Kissjudit delivered an impeccable and forthright performance as Erda. Of the more junior roles, South African-born tenor, Siyabonga Maqungo, was heard to extremely good effect as Froh while Roman Trekel made a strong impression in the companion role of Donner. Siegfried - Staatsoper Berlin, 2022 (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)Providing an idyllic setting for the preparation of the Gods' journey to Valhalla, the courtyard of ESCHE provided the departure lounge with the contingent of the heavenly-bound passengers seen happily sitting comfy on circular benches surrounding a mature flowering tree, a representation, maybe, of the […]
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 […]
2024-02-19 17:22:00
Il barbiere di Siviglia, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 16 February 2024
Count Almaviva – Siyabonga Maqungo Doctor Bartolo – Renato Girolami Rosina – Marina Viotti Don Basilio – Grigory Shkarupa Berta – Adriane Queiroz Figaro – Samuel Hasselhorn Fiorillo – Dionysios Averginos Ambrosio, Notary – Florian Eckhardt Officer – Wolfgang BiebuyckDirector – Ruth BerghausDesigns – Achim FreyerRevival director – Katharina LangStaatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinIdo Arad (conductor)Images (from 2010): Monika Rittershaus I see that, in London, Jonathan Miller’s 1987 ENO production of The Barber of Seville is receiving another outing. It seems positively modern, though, at least when it comes to years and performances on the clock, when compared with Ruth Berghaus’s 1968 staging for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, first seen a little less than midway between the declaration of the German Democratic Republic and the fall of the Berlin Wall and now past 350 outings. In one of these near-miracles impossible fully to explain, though, Berghaus’s production seems […]
2023-10-22 09:43:00
Elektra, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 20 October 2023
Images unless otherwise stated: (c) Jakob TillmannKlytämnestra – Waltraud Meier Elektra – Ricarda Merbeth Chrysothemis – Vida Miknevičiūtė Orest – Lauri Vasar Aegisth – Stephan Rügamer First Maid – Bonita Hyman Second Maid, Train-bearer – Natalia Skrycka Third Maid – Katharina Kammerloher Fourth Maid – Anna Samuil Fifth Maid – Roberta Alexander Overseer, Confidante – Cheryl Studer Young Servant – Siyabonga Maqungo Old Servant – Olaf Bär Orest’s Tutor – David WakehamPatrice Chéreau (director)Vincent Huguet (assistant director)Richard Peduzzi (set designs)Caroline de Vivaise (costumes)Dominique Bruguière (lighting)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinMarkus Poschner (conductor) For many of us, she has always been there. Not only ‘there’, somewhere, but there—at the top. It is difficult not to romanticise a little, though it is certainly not her style. She spoke briefly and with customary professionalism: she had had a wonderful career, done what she wanted to, and now it was time to say […]
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