Enlèvement royal au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

By Clémence Faber, 23 September 2015

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“Norman Reinhardt est un merveilleux ténor mozartien, au timbre solaire.”

Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 21 September 2015

Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Harem)

Jérémie Rhorer, Conductor

Rachele Gilmore, Blonde

Jane Archibald, Konstanze

Norman Reinhardt, Belmonte

David Portillo, Pedrillo

Albert Pesendorfer, Osmin

Tobias Moretti, Bassa Selim

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

Ensemble Aedes

A shark with shiny teeth

Chanda VanderHart, 18th January

Requiring trained opera singers to focus primarily on acting and asking actors to sing in a renowned opera house puts everyone out of their comfort zone, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

***11

Kušej's new Entführung disappointingly toothless

Mark Valencia, 3rd July

An updating of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail to the post-World War One era in a desert fails to inspire in Aix.

**111

Romeo Castellucci directs a new Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 26th April

The Italian director makes his long-awaited Italian operatic debut at the Teatro alla Scala in a production which perfectly mirrors Debussy’s most enigmatic creation.

****1

Chiaroscuro extinguished: a self-indulgent Poppea in Copenhagen

Mengguang Huang, 26th April

Christoph Marthaler’s staging of Monteverdi’s Poppea for the Royal Danish Opera is a study in boredom.

**111

Wretches like us: the LPO’s concert Wozzeck cuts to the quick

Peter Quantrill, 25th April

Beautifully prepared singing and playing brings out the tender side to Berg's modernist classic as part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival.

****1

Lepage’s Bluebeard and Erwartung pairing remains compelling theatre

John Gilks, 25th April

Some 30 years after its first appearance, Robert Lepage’s double bill of Duke Bluebeards Castle and Erwartung is still strikingly effective and very modern-looking music theatre.

*****

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Clémence Faber

Clémence Faber, mezzo-soprano, est née à Paris en 1991. Elle se forme à la Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, Chœur d’enfants de l’Opéra de Paris, entre 2003 et 2010, et poursuit le chant au conservatoire Gabriel Fauré (Paris) dans la classe de Yann Toussaint, en parallèle de ses études à Sciences Po Paris. Elle se perfectionne actuellement au Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (UK), dans la classe de Wilma MacDougall.