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A colorful, fantastical Entführung at the Bayerische Staatsoper

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“Putting most of the action on flying sofas doesn’t hurt that cause”
Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 21 September 2014
Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem)
Bavarian State Opera
Constantin Trinks, Conductor
Martin Duncan, Director
Rebecca Nelsen, Blonde
Lisette Oropesa, Konstanze
Javier Camarena, Belmonte
Matthew Grills, Pedrillo
Albert Pesendorfer, Osmin
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Jones’ wicked Hänsel und Gretel returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper
****1
No fairy tale: Kušej’s Rusalka works with devastating force in Munich
****1
Everlasting Everding: another beautiful Munich Zauberflöte revival
***11
And they were the most divine gods: Das Rheingold in Munich
*****
All play and no work: an exuberant Figaro in Munich
****1
Waltzing masks and masquerades in Kosky’s new Fledermaus
****1
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