Das Etikett “die meisten Opernregisseure” trifft jedoch *nicht* auf Barrie Kosky zu, dessen Bayreuth-Debüt der Meistersinger mit harten Bandagen kämpft.
Der Jahrmarkt von Sorotschinzy wurde zuletzt 1948 an der Komischen Oper Berlin gegeben, inszeniert von dem legendären Walter Felsenstein. Jetzt hat Barrie Kosky, Regisseur und Intendant des Hauses, sich daran versucht.
Barrie Koskys neuer Macbeth ist frei von Schnickschnack, grellen Kostümen und Trivialem. Er ist ein Fest der Vorstellungskraft, moderne Oper in Bestform.
Mit der ein oder anderen Referenz an das Surreale und das Makabre stürzt sich Barrie Kosky in einer grandiosen Neuinszenierung an der Komischen Oper kopfüber in Hoffmanns alptraumhafte Welt.
Un mois après le succès de La finta pazza, l’Opéra de Dijon assure avec Les Boréades un nouveau temps fort de la saison lyrique française, sous la direction d'Emmanuelle Haïm et dans la mise en scène de Barrie Kosky.
The Queen of the Night appeared as a malevolent giant spider, complete with exoskeleton, threatening Tamino with her stabbing limbs and summoning hordes of smaller spiders to writhe over Pamina when the latter hesitated to commit to Sarastro's murder.
Serious farce, warm-hearted sarcasm, operatic Broadway: Barrie Kosky and Komische Oper turn Bernstein's problem child into a show that thrills from start to finish.
Barrie Kosky’s production of Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten (The Branded) is in keeping with what was long considered one of the early 20th century’s most scandalous works.
Barrie Kosky's punchy, visually exhilarating take on Saul, with Iestyn Davies as a sublime David, makes for a powerful evening of drama at Glyndebourne.
There’s no doubt that Mélisande endeavours to escape past troubles when she first appears in Barrie Kosky’s production of Debussy’s opera, yet Nadja Mchantaf is no reticent, wispy maiden. Every vocal and physical gesture – always precise and penetrating – displays an atypically forthright quest for vitality, something that Arkel’s chauvinistic world does not readily offer.
Kosky’s The Nose hits Sydney, sweeping the audience along with hallucinogenic energy. Led by the outstanding Martin Winkler and John Tomlinson, singers and musicians deliver a wild evening's entertainment.
Interesting ideas and a brilliant orchestral performance aren't enough to overcome a visually dull staging, predictable choreography and a lack of chemistry between the protagonists.
El Liceu comienza su temporada con La flauta mágica, en una producción de inspiración cinematográfica que conforma un espectáculo audiovisual abierto a todos los públicos completado por una interpretación ágil de la partitura.
With the help of a star-studded cast, Barrie Kosky's imaginative staging delivers a production of Handel's Saul which has just about everything going for it: choreography, voices, acting. A must-see.
Barrie Kosky's production of Schoenberg's unfinished masterpiece is brought to musical life by Vladimir Jurowski's intense and compelling interpretation.
Where is the line? Where does the stage end and the audience begin? This is what Australian director Barrie Kosky probes in his production pairing Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle.
After Cavalli’s Ercole Amante in 2009 and Handel’s Deidamia in 2011, De Nederlandse Opera is continuing its exploration of obscure Baroque operas with Gluck’s Armide, until 27 October.I always wondered why Armide was Gluck’s own favourite work.
Usually, I don’t find much to be excited about in opera stagings meant to overhaul the genre, to give it the resuscitation it apparently needs. They are always more promising on paper, always less effective in execution: I’ve seen all kinds of sexual permissiveness, giant machines, film projections, even singing robots (an especially low point).
Die Zauberflöte is a work whose outward simplicity masks internal complexity and even contradictions. Mozart’s music is childishly tuneful and yet reaches for the classically sublime; Emmanuel Schikaneder’s libretto alternates a magical quest story out of a German storybook with Masonic claptrap and secondhand Voltaire.
