Ein Geniestreich: Der Tod in Venedig erstmals an der Volksoper Wien

Rainer Trost (Gustav von Aschenbach)

Martin Winkler (Ältlicher Geck)

Rainer Trost (Gustav von Aschenbach) und Martin Winkler (Der alte Gondoliere)

Victor Cagnin (Tadzio) und Rainer Trost (Gustav von Aschenbach)

Thomas Lichtenecker (Stimme des Apollo), Victor Cagnin (Tadzio), Rainer Trost (Gustav v. Aschenbach)

Victor Cagnin (Tadzio) und Rainer Trost (Gustav von Aschenbach)

By Snapdragon, 17 May 2022

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“ein Gesamtkunstwerk, das man gesehen haben sollte”

Reviewed at Volksoper Wien, Vienna on 14 May 2022

Britten, Death in Venice

Volksoper Wien

Gerrit Prießnitz, Conductor

Sir David McVicar, Director

Vicki Mortimer, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Paule Constable, Lighting Designer

Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper

Chorus of the Vienna Volksoper

Rainer Trost, Gustav von Aschenbach

Martin Winkler, Traveller/ Elderly fop/ Old gondolier/ Hotel manager/ Hotel barber/ Leader of the players/ Voice of Dionysus

Thomas Lichtenecker, Voice of Apollo

Victor Cagnin, Tadzio

An empty glitter bomb: Aschenbrödels Traum at the Volksoper Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 4th December

A dizzying premise from Martina Eisenreich and Axel Ranisch, loosely drawing on Johann Strauss II’s unfinished ballet Aschenbrödel, which tries to be everything, all at once.

***11

Death, interrupted: KaiserRequiem moves at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 25th January

Omer Meir Wellber’s Mozart-Ullmann mash-up sounds like a terrible idea, but absolutely hits the mark.

****1

Paging Dr Freud! Iolanta and the Nutcracker at the Volksoper Wien

Mark Pullinger, 5th December

When is The Nutcracker not The Nutcracker? When's it's mashed together with Tchaikovsky's Iolanta to represent the blind princess’ inner world in a dark interpretation.

****1

Ella Milch-Sheriff’s Alma emerges as a dark triumph at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 31st October

A haunting, musically compelling impression of a woman whose life was shaped by creation, loss, and unfulfilled thirst for personal expression.

****1

Femicide! A controversial Carmen from Lotte de Beer at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 6th October

Lotte de Beer’s new retelling at the Volksoper reintroduces the element of shock into Bizet's popular opera.

****1

The subconscious at play: Lady in the Dark at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 18th December

Kurt Weill's musical, with its focus on psychoanalysis, makes its Austrian premiere in the city of Sigmund Freud.

****1

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Snapdragon

Snapdragon is an experienced concert- and opera-goer in Vienna and other music metropoles. Musical emphases include opera (especially Baroque opera) and piano music. As an Austrian native, Snapdragon can’t resist an operetta every now and then.

Ein Geniestreich: Benjamin Brittens Der Tod in Venedig erstmals an der Volksoper Wien