Past Production Reviews
3Without ifs and buts: what's going on on stage is terrific! […] Olivia Delauré is the new Eliza from Dresden, Axel Köhler is Professor Higgins, plus a large ensemble with many roles, great dialogues for the main actors, musically a succession of long-running hits, almost everything to sing along to and clap along to, that’s where we are but again entirely in the Dresden State Operetta. Of course, a great merit of the choreographer Radek Stopka and the Ballet of the State Operetta in the dance and movement astonishingly successful interaction with the choir and the large ensemble. And the musical side of this performance is more than just a little piece of happiness with Christian Garbosnik conducting the orchestra of the state operetta and the choir in so many facets in the rehearsal by Thomas Runge. Garbosnik is a man of speed. It's unbelievable how he starts in the prelude, but then also finds his way to sensitive flattering melodies. The singers all find their individual tone of the genre, no falls into clichés, the musicality is of dance-like power.
The revue operetta “Im Weißen Rössl” has a lot to do with Berlin at the Dresden State Operetta. An “Austria-O-Mat” has to help out for the Alpine ... For the new Dresden production, the director Toni Burghard Friedrich and the conductor Johannes Pell opted for the legendary version of Ralph Benatzky's genius trick, with which the Pfister siblings caused a sensation in 1994 in the Berlin bar of all reason. In addition, they have moderately reduced the staff. […] Under the direction of Johannes Pell, the whole thing also works fabulously in the orchestral version, which is down to a seven-strong band. The spark [..] jumps over to the audience. Which is not only due to the indestructible music, but also to the scene, which is well choreographed at the right tempo (Marie-Christin Zeisset). [...] the "AUSTRIA-O-MAT" is fed with a few coins. Then the curtain opens and there are mountains for yodelling, the Wolfgangsee, the sweet alpine cow and the sky blue as well as the skyline of Vienna for the waltz. Event catering that the directing team should have patented.
Toni Burghard Friedrich's “White Horse Inn” turns into a surprise box at the Dresden State Operetta. [...] director Toni Burghard Friedrich presents a refreshingly humorous reading of the popular stage hit on his debut at the house. [...] No, you really won't miss anything in this "Rössl". [...] Christian Grygas gives a wonderfully rushed waiter Leopold [...] Laila Salome Fischer shown as a strict businesswoman who does not allow herself to be looked into her heart so quickly. [...] Markus Liske, as Wilhelm Giesecke from Berlin, brings life-loving local color into play. The "Rössl" is not Mallorca, but it is still fun - which his daughter Ottilie, who shows Christina Maria Fercher as a lively bee, also takes care of. [...] The surprise of the evening is probably Ella Rombouts as the housemaid Kathi. Both vocally and playfully, she repeatedly attracts attention and seduces the beautiful Sigismund alias Riccardo Romeo into a passionate kiss with a lot of humor. [...] Quick-witted dialogues, delicious comedy situations, clever choreographies (Marie-Christin Zeisset) and the enthusiastic joy of playing of the ensemble, which radiates into the orchestra pit, make the evening a carefree pleasure. [...] The orchestra of the Dresden State Operetta, under the direction of Johannes Pell, impressively proves that less can actually be more.
