Una historia de violencia: Bieito lleva con éxito Lear al Real

By Juan José Freijo, 30 January 2024

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“Bieito nos expone sin barreras los episodios de ultraviolencia familiar tan evidentes en el libreto”

Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 29 January 2024

Reimann, Lear

Teatro Real

Asher Fisch, Conductor

Calixto Bieito, Director

Rebecca Ringst, Set Designer

Ingo Krügler, Costume Designer

Franck Evin, Lighting Designer

Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

Coro Titular del Teatro Real

Sarah Derendinger, Video

Bettina Auer, Dramaturgy

Bo Skovhus, Lear

Ángeles Blancas, Goneril

Erika Sunnegårdh, Regan

Susanne Elmark, Cordelia

Derek Welton, Duke of Albany

Michael Colvin, Duke of Cornwall

Torben Jürgens, King of France

Lauri Vasar, Earl of Gloucester

Andrew Watts, Edgar

Andreas Conrad, Edmund

Kor-Jan Dusseljee, Earl of Kent

Ernst Alisch, Fool

Jose Luis Basso, Choirmaster / chorus director

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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Juan José Freijo

Juan José Freijo nació en Madrid en 1970. Desde siempre apasionado por el estudio de la música, sus intereses orbitan principalmente alrededor de la ópera y el género vocal. Inició su formación y carrera profesional en el campo de las ciencias, donde completó un doctorado en física aplicada. Más adelante, amplió su formación en diferentes áreas de humanidades, incluyendo estudios en historia del arte y en la actualidad un postgrado en filosofía teórica y práctica. Juan José Freijo sigue de cerca las temporadas de las principales capitales europeas y durante los últimos años ha estado a cargo de la sección de crítica musical de ocioxocio.com.

Una historia de violencia: Bieito lleva con éxito Lear al Teatro Real