Le Così fan tutte brouillon de Tcherniakov et Hengelbrock à Aix

Così fan tutte au Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

By Romain Daroles, 07 July 2023

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“Il y avait pourtant de magnifiques promesses dans cette mise en scène de Dmitri Tcherniakov”

Reviewed at Théâtre de l'Archevêché, Aix-en-Provence on 6 July 2023

Mozart, Così fan tutte (new production)

Thomas Hengelbrock, Conductor

Dmitri Tcherniakov, Director, Set Designer

Elena Zaytseva, Costume Designer

Gleb Filshtinsky, Lighting Designer

Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble

Agneta Eichenholz, Fiordiligi

Claudia Mahnke, Dorabella

Rainer Trost, Ferrando

Georg Nigl, Don Alfonso

Russell Braun, Guglielmo

Nicole Chevalier, Despina

Balthasar Neumann Singers' Academy

Stikhina and Clayton shine in DNO's uneven Maid of Orleans

Eleanor Knight, 15th November

Director Dmitri Tcherniakov and a talented cast do everything to make Tchaikovsky’s opera work in Amsterdam, but problematic elements persist.

***11

Tcherniakov’s bold reading of Rusalka opens the season in Naples

Lorenzo Fiorito, 20th November

Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging of Rusalka in Naples has a starkly modern visual style which occasionally dilutes the story’s emotional impact.

***11

Experiment Rheingold: Tcherniakov’s new Ring at the Staatsoper Berlin

Alexandra Richter, 2nd October

Thielemann and Tcherniakov forge a new Ring at the Berlin Staatsoper and raise great cheer.

****1

Tcherniakov's new Freischütz a brilliant piece of theater in Munich

Ako Imamura, 13th February

Dmitri Tcherniakov updates the "German Romantic Opera" into a modern-day thriller with interesting twists in a musically splendid performance in Munich.

*****

On the plague of eternal life: a new Makropulos Affair in Zurich

Sarah Batschelet, 22nd September

To outwit death and attain immortality is a dream as old as human history. But isn’t it precisely the finite nature of life that makes it so precious?

***11

Listen with Mother: Tsar Saltan as autism parable at La Monnaie

Mark Pullinger, 16th June

Dmitri Tcherniakov's staging turns Rimsky-Korsakov's opera into storytelling for an autistic boy, but does he deliver a fairy tale ending?

*****

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Romain Daroles

Romain Daroles est né entre Gascogne et Armagnac, terre qui lui a transmis le goût des lettres, de la musique et de la bonne chère. Parallèlement à des études littéraires qui se solderont avec l’obtention d’un Master en Littératures Françaises à la Sorbonne, il approfondit sa formation théâtrale au Conservatoire d’Art Dramatique du 6e arrondissement de Paris, ainsi que sa passion pour l’opéra. Titulaire en 2016 d'un Bachelor Théâtre décerné par la Manufacture de Lausanne, il est comédien/metteur en scène et a joué sous la direction de François Gremaud, Marie Fourquet, Alain Borek ou Mathias Brossard.