The Carsen effect: brilliant Iphigénie in Paris

By Tristan Labouret, 24 June 2019

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“Strikingly, all the storms in the orchestra become psychologically tangible”

Reviewed at Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris on 22 June 2019

Gluck, Iphigénie en Tauride

Thomas Hengelbrock, Conductor

Robert Carsen, Director

Tobias Hoheisel, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Gaëlle Arquez, Iphigénie

Stéphane Degout, Oreste

Paolo Fanale, Pylade

Alexandre Duhamel, Thoas, King of Scythia

Catherine Trottmann, Diane

Philippe Giraudeau, Choreography

Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble

Balthasar-Neumann-Chor

Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Pia Maltri, 7th April

Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

****1

A sensational Kátya Kabanová in Brno shows Janáček at his very best

Dominic Lowe, 3rd March

A revival of Robert Carsen's production at the Janáček Festival Preview benefits from an excellent cast and exemplary playing from the house ensemble.

*****

The game of love: Robert Carsen’s new Così fan tutte at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 8th November

Alexander Soddy leads a great cast in a clever, supremely entertaining new production in Milan.

****1

Canadian Opera's Orfeo returns elegant, restrained and very satisfying

John Gilks, 9th October

The restrained beauty of Robert Carsen’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is matched by musical elegance in its revival current revival at the Four Seasons Centre.

*****

Eugene Onegin revival fails to find the magic spark in Toronto

John Gilks, 2nd May

Robert Carsen’s 1997 production of Eugene Onegin has aged remarkably well but the latest Canadian Opera Company revival of it doesn’t quite recapture its magic.

***11

To the Moon and back: Janáček’s Mr Brouček visits Berlin

Elena Luporini, 16th March

Robert Carsen's new production of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden scores a well-deserved success thanks to a stellar – or rather, lunar – conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

*****

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Tristan Labouret

Musicologue diplômé du CNSMD de Paris, Tristan Labouret collabore avec de nombreux artistes et institutions musicales (Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, festivals de musique de chambre de Deauville, Just Classik Festival…), menant des activités de médiation à destination de tous les publics. Ex-altiste toujours passionné par les répertoires chambristes et symphoniques, il occupe depuis 2018 le poste de rédacteur en chef de la partie francophone de Bachtrack.