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Philippe Jordan conducts Michael Volle, Joshua Guerrero, Anja Kampe, Eleonora Burrato, Michaela Schuster, Ambrogio Maestri, and Serena Sáenz in Tatjana Gürbaca‘s new production from Vienna.
2022-04-23 14:26:00
Berlin Festtage (5) – Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Don Giovanni, 17 April 2022
Don Giovanni – Michael Volle Donna Anna – Slávka Zámečníková Don Ottavio – Bogdan Volkov Commendatore – Peter Rose Donna Elvira – Elsa Dreisig Leporello – Riccardo Fassi Masetto – David Oštrek Zerlina – Serena Sáenz Vincent Huguet (director)Aurélie Maestre (set designs)Clémence Pernoud (costumes)Irene Selka (lighting)Robert Pflanz (video)Louis Geisler (dramaturgy)Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus master: Martin Wright)Staatskapelle BerlinThomas Guggeis (conductor)Don Giovanni (Michael Volle), Commendatore (Peter Rose), Leporello (Riccardo Fassi)Images: Matthias Baus Don Giovanni was the first opera Daniel Barenboim conducted: at the 1973 Edinburgh Festival. Nearly fifty years on, this new production was eagerly awaited, if more for Barenboim than for director Vincent Huguet, whose previous contributions towards this Berlin Da Ponte ‘trilogy’ (see hereand here) have generally been considered disappointing at best. Alas, Barenboim, whose incendiary conducting of Peter Mussbach’s production here on Unter den Linden in 2007 remains one of my Mozart operatic highlights, had to withdraw, replaced by Staatskapellmeister Thomas […]
2020-03-08 18:24:00
Carmen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 7 March 2020
Images: Monika RittershausMicaëla (Christiana Karg) and chorus members Carmen – Anita Rachvelishvili Don José – Michael Fabiano Escamillo – Lucio Gallo Dancaïro – Jaka Mihelač Remendado – Ziad Nehme Moralès – Adam Kutny Zuniga – Jan Martiník Micaëla – Christiane Karg Frasquita – Alyona Abramova Mercédès – Serena Sáenz Lillas Pastia – Klaus Christian Schreiber Martin Kušej (director) Herbert Stöger (revival director) Jens Kilian (set designs) Heidi Hackl (costumes) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Children's Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (chorus director: Vincenz Weissenburger) Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Like stagings of any opera – Elektra almost an exception – Carmens vary, though perhaps not so much as they ought. I have seen a few: from those that do not even to try (Francesca Zambello and her donkey, Aletta Collins for the […]
2020-03-08 18:24:00
Carmen, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 7 March 2020
Images: Monika RittershausMicaëla (Christiana Karg) and chorus members Carmen – Anita Rachvelishvili Don José – Michael Fabiano Escamillo – Lucio Gallo Dancaïro – Jaka Mihelač Remendado – Ziad Nehme Moralès – Adam Kutny Zuniga – Jan Martiník Micaëla – Christiane Karg Frasquita – Alyona Abramova Mercédès – Serena Sáenz Lillas Pastia – Klaus Christian Schreiber Martin Kušej (director) Herbert Stöger (revival director) Jens Kilian (set designs) Heidi Hackl (costumes) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Children's Choir of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (chorus director: Vincenz Weissenburger) Staatsopernchor Berlin (chorus director: Martin Wright) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) Like stagings of any opera – Elektra almost an exception – Carmens vary, though perhaps not so much as they ought. I have seen a few: from those that do not even to try (Francesca Zambello and her donkey, Aletta Collins for the […]
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