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Jenůfa, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 7 January 2024
Grandmother Buryja – Hanna Schwarz Kostelnička Buryja – Rosie Aldridge Jenůfa – Vida Miknevičiūtė Laca Klemeń – Stephan Rügamer Števa Buryja – Pavol Breslik Foreman – Grigory Shkarupa Jano – Victoria Randem Barena – Adriane Queiroz Mayor – David Oštrek Mayor’s Wife – Natalia Sckrycka Karolka – Maria Kokareva Herdswoman – Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein Auntie – Rebecka Wallroth Voices – Olga Vilenskaia, Ben BloomfieldDirector – Damiano MichielettoRevival director – Marcin ŁakomickiSet designs – Paolo FantinCostumes – Carlo TetiLighting – Alessandro CarlettiChoreography – Thomas Wilhelm Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Dani Juris)Staatskapelle BerlinAxel Kober (conductor)Images: Bernd Uhlig (from 2021 premiere, with different cast)Damiano Michieletto’s 2021 production of Jenůfa, now receiving its first revival, offers a relatively straightforward retelling of the story without prettifying or sentimentalising. Paolo Fantin’s set designs are stark: semi-transparent, enabling one to see, as in a small rural community, most of what is going on, whilst still maintaining some degree of secrecy. […]
2023-07-23 13:34:00
Munich Opera Festival (4) - Dido and Aeneas/Erwartung, 20 July 2023
Nationaltheater Dido/A Woman - Aušrinė Stundytė Aeneas – Günter Papendell Belinda – Victoria Randem Venus – Rinat Shaham Sorceress – Key'mon W Murrah First Witch – Elmira Karakhanova Members of the opera-ballet of the Bavarian State Opera – Aaron Amoatey, Erica D’Amica, Ahta Yaw Ea, Arnie Georgsson, Moe Gotoda, João da Gracia Santiago, Serhat Perhat, The Thien Nguyen Interlude: Paweł Mykietyn (music) Maria Magdalena Gocał (vocalist) Jarowsław Regulski (sound design) Krzysztof Warlikowski (director) Malgorzata Szczęśniak (designs) Felice Ross (lighting) Kamil Polak (video) Claude Bardouil (choreography) Christian Longchamp, Katharina Ortmann (dramaturgy) Bavarian State Orchestra Supplementary Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera (chorus director: Sergej Bolkhovets) Andrew Manze (conductor) Images: Bernd Uhlig Purcell and Schoenberg: my kind of double-bill. Puritan ‘authenticity’, or whatever it is calling itself at the moment, is so all-pervasive when it comes to the seventeenth century that the fantasy has had little chance—until now. To be fair, the […]
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 […]
2021-11-24 07:35:19
In his passion for the music of Richard Wagner, Tony Cooper finds himself back in Deutschland attending yet another Ring cycle at Deutsche Oper Berlin
Wagner: Das Rheingold - Deutsche Oper, Berlin (Photo Bernd Uhlig) Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen; Dir: Stefan Herheim, cond: Donald Runnicles; Deutsche Oper Berlin Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 16 November 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★) Tony Cooper experiences Stefan Herheim's new Ring cycle in BerlinTony Cooper's review of Stefan Herheim's new production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, conducted by Donald Runnicles with Nina Stemme, Clay Hilley, Derek Welton, Iain Paterson, Brandon Jovanovich, Elisabeth Teige. I’m back in Berlin, a city I favour and enjoy so much, ready for yet another Ring cycle at Deutsche Oper, a large, comfortable 1850-seat theatre boldly designed in the Modernist style and simply ideal for large-scale productions. And none come much larger than those penned by Giacomo Meyerbeer, Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner From my hotel on Bayreutherstraße just off Wittenbergplatz, Berlin’s most fashionable […]
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