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8Simpatico e gradevole l’Arlecchino di Liviu Holender
Liviu Holender è ottimo nel ruolo di Harlekin
Der Regisseur Vincent Huguet unternimmt den Versuch, den Kosmos menschlicher Begegnungen, Begierden, Betrug, Verletzungen, Abhängigkeiten, sowie die sich daraus ergebenden Gefühle von Verlust, Melancholie und gar ein wenig Hoffnung zu zeigen, die ganz offenbar in diesen Opern thematisiert werden und mit oder trotz aller Freiheiten unverändert Aktualität besitzen.
The premiere of this new production of Le nozze di Figaro during lockdown was originally intended to be a pilot project with a small, negative-tested live audience in attendance. However, due to the increasing Covid incidence numbers in Berlin, this plan was discarded. So – once again – audience access was only via the livestream on the Staatsoper Berlin's website. Certainly, all cultural institutions are trying to hang on to and even expand their audience reach with online solutions. This production also marks the start of a new Mozart–Da Ponte cycle with Daniel Barenboim conducting and Vincent Huguet as director, with Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni to follow in the 2021/22 season.
And Sebastian Weigle, once the horn player of the Staatskapelle, now leads the opera as a conductor with a deep understanding of the forest romance and the sensitivity of the fairy tale tone: he places the orchestra's most cautious pianissimo under the enchantingly clear voices of Katrin Wundsam as Hansel and Elsa Dreisig as Gretel. "
That is certainly the greatest architectural and acoustic treasure of this house: proximity. In Achim Freyer's production of “Hansel and Gretel” you sit inside a child's heart. It is a dark room of dreams and lust, of fear and wishes, of a fantasy that gives birth to the monstrous: a garden spider as God in heaven, a giant cat with white mice sticking to its tongue, and a witch with sausage lips and a coffee cup hat.
