Past Production Reviews
2The story" , the framework story was negligible. It was also difficult to remember once you had left the theatre. There was no claim to present a "Cole Porter Story" . Instead, we had Nina Bülles, Lorena Mazuera Grisales and Marlou Düster on stage, who, in partly unflattering costumes, gave a brilliant performance in terms of dancing and acting. We saw and heard "opera voices"; Voices that sometimes added a little too much heaviness to Porter's smug lightness . Because we all know the numbers that were thrown together here to form a kind of revue, after all they fill the standard program of the “Great American songbook”, which has been inspiring audiences for decades by each of the great entertainers, show and film stars. But Daniel Schliewa as Cole, Sara Wortmann as Angel, Rudolfkatzer as Hermann and other actors breathed life into us. Life in this pandemic! With their radiant happiness and lightness, they picked up the audience and took them with them. I laughed, drummed the beat with my feet, and had a hard time holding myself back from singing along to the "popular songs".
Amelie Müller as Silvia Lombardi, actress, mistress of the prime minister and object of the fashion designer's desires, not only looked dazzling in her elegant figure-hugging costumes (by Aleksandra Kica ), she also offered enchantingly beautiful singing with her soprano voice, which was confident in all registers to the floating top notes, and she truly had the charm, grace and charisma of a Neapolitan film diva. Her admirer, the tailor and fashion designer Andrea Coclé, was the likeable baritone Steffen Kubach , also great in his soulful arias and the duets with Silvia,visually quite the bon vivant with blond curls and initially in a midnight blue satin nightgown, later delicious to look at in his convict outfit - after his Mamma Agata at the beginning of the 2021/22 season, here is another game that seems tailor-made for him.
