Live, Video: Kritiken zu klassischen Konzerten, Opern, Ballett und Tanz finden | Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa)

Ingo Metzmacher leads a musically formidable performance of Hans Werner Henze’s shipwreck oratorio. Romeo Castellucci’s staging engages the senses but remains emotionally distant.

Lyrical pathos and battering choral climaxes were the strong suits at the Dutch première of Hans Werner Henze’s incendiary oratorio Das Floβ der Medusa.