L'Ariane à Naxos de Katie Mitchell : lumières tamisées au TCE

By Apolline Gouzi, 23 March 2019

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“La « touche » Katie Mitchell est décidément au rendez-vous”

Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 21 March 2019

Strauss R., Ariadne auf Naxos

Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor

Katie Mitchell, Director

Chloe Lamford, Set Designer

Sarah Blenkinsop, Costume Designer

Camilla Nylund, The Primadonna (Ariadne)

Roberto Saccà, The Tenor (Bacchus)

Kate Lindsey, Composer

Olga Pudova, Zerbinetta

Elena Galitskaya, Echo

Beate Mordal, Naiad

Lucie Roche, Dryad

Jonathan Abernethy, Brighella

Marcel Beekman, Dancing Master

Petter Moen, Officer

Emilio Pons, Scaramuccio

Huw Montague Rendall, Harlequin

Jean-Sébastien Bou, Music Master

Jean-Christophe Lanièce, Wigmaker

Guilhem Worms, Lackey

David Shipley, Truffaldino

Maik Solbach, The Major-Domo

Orchestre de chambre de Paris

The Royal Opera stages its first Makropulos Case

Mark Valencia, 4th November

Katie Mitchell wheels out her tired old tropes in The Makropulos Case, redeemed by its musical performances.

***11

Nadine Sierra leads a musically formidable Lucia di Lammermoor

Mark Valencia, 19th April

Katie Mitchell's provocative staging is revived to great effect, elevated by glorious music-making led by Nadine Sierra's sensational Lucia.

****1

272 years on, Handel's Theodora comes home to Covent Garden

David Karlin, 31st January

Superb singing from Joyce DiDonato and Jakub Józef Orliński lights up a curate's egg staging from Katie Mitchell.

***11

Royal Opera's A New Dark Age is a powerful cantata for our time

Jenny Camilleri, 24th October

The Royal Opera House responds to current global turmoil with a double bill by four women composers. Baritone Peter Brathwaite delivers a tour de force in The Knife of Dawn and A New Dark Age is a powerful emotional journey.

***11

Less than the sum of its parts: Zauberland at the Linbury

David Karlin, 15th October

Fine performances by Julia Bullock and Cédric Tiberghien can't make up for the confusion of a fragmented, allusive narrative.

**111

“Soap opera at its best”: Katie Mitchell's Jenůfa

Nicolas Nguyen, 6th October

Katie Mitchell's second production of Jenůfa is a straightforward, effective reading of the libretto well supported by excellent singing actors.

****1

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Apolline Gouzi

Étudiante en musicologie au CNSMD de Paris et à l’École Normale Supérieure, Apolline Gouzi pratique le violon et le chant. Passionnée de musique anglaise, elle consacre ses recherches à la musique de Benjamin Britten. Elle travaille également sur les festivals de musique en France au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale.