Past Production Reviews
5The 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
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.
Die Tante der Rusalka, die Hexe Jezibaba findet in der großartigen Romina Boscolo ein passendes Pendant.
Felix Krieger ist dabei ein genialischer Partner am Pult (...)
