Estreno triunfal de Arabella en el Teatro Real

By David Santana Cañas, 01 February 2023

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Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 31 January 2023

Strauss R., Arabella

Teatro Real

David Afkham, Conductor

Christof Loy, Director

Herbert Murauer, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Reinhard Traub, Lighting Designer

Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

Coro Titular del Teatro Real

Sara Jakubiak, Arabella

Josef Wagner, Mandryka

Sarah Defrise, Zdenka

Tyler Zimmerman, Count Lamoral

Elena Sancho Pereg, The Fiakermilli

Anne Sofie von Otter, Adelaide

Martin Winkler, Count Waldner

Dean Power, Count Elemer

Roger Smeets, Count Dominik

Matthew Newlin, Matteo

Barbara Zechmeister, A fortune-teller

Thomas Wilhelm, Choreography

Deborah Warner attains her theatrical dream at the Teatro Real

Juan José Freijo, 12th March

Warner once again displays her unquestionable talent onstage and her affinity with Benjamin Britten, although, on this occasion, the musical aspect are not equally satisfactory.

***11

Illuminating history-makers: Nixon in China lands in Madrid

David Karlin, 17th April

John Adams’ opera about Richard Nixon’s historic meeting with Mao Tse-Tung is performed with all round excellence, with a real find on the podium in the shape of Olivia Lee-Gunderman.

****1

The martyrs and the oppressed: Peter Grimes at Teatro Real Madrid

Juan José Freijo, 19th April

The new production of Peter Grimes stands out as the strongest item in Teatro Real's season, with magnificent staging by Deborah Warner and superb musical direction by Ivor Bolton, with outstanding vocal and dramatic performances.

*****

Reality as a staging concept: La traviata at Teatro Real, Madrid

Juan José Freijo, 22nd July

In this historic reopening, Lisette Oropesa offers a magnificent performance, dramatically overwhelming and vocally very unique.

****1

La Veronal heads Into the Little Hill in Madrid

John Marten Barnard, 15th February

The Teatros del Canal host the Benjamin–Crimp partnership’s thrillingly dark, lyric retelling of Robert Browning’s famous 1842 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin by La Veronal dance company.

*****

A disappointing new Falstaff from Laurent Pelly at the Teatro Real

Fernando Remiro, 25th April

Comedy fails to spark in Laurent Pelly's new production of Falstaff at the Teatro Real.

**111

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David Santana Cañas

David Santana (Bilbao, 1996) comienza sus estudios de música en la especialidad de fagot en el Conservatorio Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga de Bilbao. En 2014 se traslada a Madrid, donde cursa el grado en Musicología en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y continúa y finaliza sus estudios musicales de fagot en el Conservatorio Adolfo Salazar de Madrid. Actualmente se encuentra ampliando su formación con la realización del Máster de Investigación de Música Española e Hispanoamericana en la UCM.