...THOMAS ERLANK mit seinem schönen Tenor ist wie immer top als Hirt/Stimme des Seemanns...
The fairytale Humperdinck opera appears in a new light. Esther Mertel has revised it and combines the old original with the current possibilities.
Duisburg With the British animation theater troupe "1927", Barrie Kosky staged Mozart's opera in Duisburg's Rheinoper house as a happy folk theater in the digital age. Excellent also the musical side of the evening
Of all the operas in the repertoire, Die Zauberflote is the one that today seems to best stimulate the creativity of directors. We saw it this summer at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence , we can see it at the start of the season in Düsseldorf where Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Koskydemonstrate a pleasing inventiveness. Their idea? Transform Mozart's work into a gigantic cartoon. How? 'Or...
Dusseldorf. In Berlin and Duisburg, Mozart's “Magic Flute” already enjoys cult status in the production by the directing duo Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade. The gaudy mixture of silent film aesthetics, comics, caricatures and surrealism fills the houses there. Now the production can also be seen in the Düsseldorf Opera House.
"The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart can be seen at the Düsseldorf Opera this season. The view into the orchestra pit is seven meters deep. Seven meters that are not entirely without. "It was difficult to stand up here at first, but it's a matter of habit," says Richard Sveda. The singer is one of Papageno's actors in "The Magic Flute", which is being staged this season in B...
[...] haben nur wenig Gelegenheit, ihre tadellos ausgebildeten Stimmen in den Vordergrund zu rücken. Gleiches gilt für die famose junge Altistin Karina Repova als Anna.
Die Damenriege wird durch den viel Wärme verströmenden Mezzo von Karina Repova komplettiert, die eine hingebungsvolle Anna Kennedy ist.
Fünf Sterne für Karina Repova.
Über "Pagliacci" ist vor allem das sensationelle Nedda-Debüt der Sopranistin Luiza Fatyol zu vermelden - kongenial für diese teils tragische, teils verspielte Figur.