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8Johan Hyunbong Choi sang the title role with a lithe baritone, impressive from start to finish as he breaks away from his family in his grand monologue and finally agrees to spend the night in the haunted room out of love for Kate . Wioletta Hebrowska sings Kate with a dramatic mezzo-soprano and her resolute playing leaves no doubt as to who will be in charge in a possible marriage to her. Her mother, the ambitious officer's widow Mrs. Julian, was in good hands with Andrea Stadel with her bell-like soprano. Yoonki Baek as his rather flippant friend Lechmere, who improves his chancesKate sees, after breaking away from Owen , that she presents his lyrical tenor, confident in the high register, while Sabina Martin , as the traditional, elegantly dressed Miss Wingrave, Owen 's energetic aunt, knew how to resolutely use her dramatic soprano. Gerard Quinn as the trainer Spencer Coyle with the noble character baritone and the beautiful-voiced soprano Evmorfia Metaxaki as Mrs. Coyle were the compensating, balancing poles of this production. Finally, the character tenor Wolfgang Schwanninger offeredas the aged, still war-obsessed head of the family, General Sir Philip Wingrave in his dress uniform, an intense study of stern, merciless authority.
The start of the new season of the theater in Lübeck with Benjamin Britten's "Owen Wingrave" as the opening production of the music theater. The opera will be performed for the first time in the Hanseatic city and will reveal a secret.
The 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".
Director Ezio Toffolutti, who as a universal artist is also responsible for stage design and costumes, relies primarily on the emancipatory strength of his protagonist in the production of Maestro Puccini's own favorite opera "Madama Butterfly" at the Lübeck Theater. Butterfly, who was sold as a wife to the American naval officer BF Pinkerton, who was only interested in sporadic pleasure, exoticism and sex tourism, is by no means submissive to her new husband. She encounters the man whom she blindly decided to love in a devastating manner without any shyness and without modest gentleness. Rather, something decisive, resolute and in a certain way - think
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.
With her production, director Effi Mendez has succeeded in creating a wonderfully entertaining, happy and amusing spectacle in Stefan Heinrich 's wonderfully looking stage design . She relied on busy leadership, gave the protagonists all the freedom to act without it degenerating into slapstick. The imaginative, gaudy costumes designed by Ilona Holdorf-Schimanke with lots of houndstooth fabric also contributed to the success of this original, entertaining performance. Under the prudent direction of Takahiro Nagasaki , the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra makes music wonderfully light and tastes the Italian-spirited, playful compositionDonizetti's gorgeous.
The venerable theater in Lübeck has rarely seen this. A Bruce Springsteen recital tore the audience - in the truest sense of the word - from their chairs: Standing ovations, storms of enthusiasm, four encores ... Under the title “My Hometown - Late Night Special”, the Lübeck theater is presenting one of the most important “Rock'n ' Roller "of American rock music: Bruce Springsteen.
