Viaje al abismo con La pasajera de Weinberg en el Teatro Real

By Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro, 28 March 2024

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“la obra se caracteriza por una sonoridad cruda y descarnada”

Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 24 March 2024

Weinberg, The Passenger

Teatro Real

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor

Sir David Pountney, Director

Johan Engels, Set Designer

Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Costume Designer

Fabrice Kebour, Lighting Designer

Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

Coro Titular del Teatro Real

Daveda Karanas, Lisa

Amanda Majeski, Marta

Nikolai Schukoff, Walter

Gyula Orendt, Tadeusz

Anna Gorbachyova, Katya

Lidia Vinyes Curtis, Krystyna

Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Vlasta

Nadezhda Karyazina, Hannah

Olivia Doray, Ivette

Liubov Sokolova, Bronka

Albert Casals, 3rd SS officer

Hrólfur Sæmundsson, 1st SS officer

Marcell Bakonyi, 2nd SS officer

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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Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro

Pablo Sánchez Quinteiro es un apasionado de toda la música clásica, pero muy especialmente de la obra y de la personalidad de Gustav Mahler. Su estudio y su disfrute han llenado y llenan su vida, hasta el punto de que una autoridad como José Luis Pérez de Arteaga lo ha calificado como "fabuloso estudioso mahleriano". Actualmente es coeditor de la principal web en castellano dedicada a dicho compositor (gustav-mahler.es). Profesionalmente, enseña e investiga neuroanatomía animal en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.