Local colour: Mathis der Maler in the Ruhr

Von Matthew Rye, 29 Oktober 2017

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“some good moments, and an arresting surprise or two”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen, am 28 Oktober 2017

Hindemith, Mathis der Maler

Musiktheater im Revier

Rasmus Baumann, Musikalische Leitung

Michael Schulz, Regie

Heike Scheele, Bühnenbild

Renée Listerdal, Kostüme

Bele Kumberger, Regina

Yamina Maamar, Ursula

Almuth Herbst, Gräfin Helfenstein

Martin Homrich, Albrecht von Brandenburg

Urban Malmberg, Mathis, der Maler

Joachim G. Maaß, Lorenz von Pommersfelden

Tobias Haaks, Hans Schwalb

Edward Lee, Wolfgang Capito

Luciano Batinić, Riedinger

Gabriele Wiesmüller, Dramaturgie

Patrick Fuchs, Licht

Alexander Eberle, Chorleitung

Neue Philharmonie Westfalen

Opernchor des Musiktheaters im Revier

Bayreuth comes to the Ruhr for a new Tristan und Isolde

John Johnston, 4th March

Catherine Foster returns, in the Ruhr, to the role of Isolde with Torsten Kerl in a new production of Tristan und Isolde .

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Bayreuth comes to the Ruhr for a new Tristan und Isolde

John Johnston, 4th March

Catherine Foster returns, in the Ruhr, to the role of Isolde with Torsten Kerl in a new production of Tristan und Isolde .

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Mythic moth: Smareglia's La falena in Braunschweig

Matthew Rye, 15th April

The German premiere of a late-19th-century Italian opera that has closer musical and dramatic links to Wagner than to Verdi or Puccini.

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A fresh take on Mozart's Idomeneo in Dresden

Max Woods, 29th November

Mozart wrote 20 operas during his relatively short life, the first being performed in Salzburg in 1767, when the composer was just eleven years old. However, it is Idomeneo, written and premièred when Mozart was the ripe old age of 25, which is usually considered to be his first mature opera.The opera takes place on the island of Crete immediately after the Trojan War.

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Strauss' Elektra in München: archaischer Racherausch

Michael Vieth, 18th March

Herbert Wernickes fast 30 Jahre alte Inszenierung von Richard Strauss' monumentalem Einakter ist auch heute ein faszinierend visuelles wie musikalisches Erlebnis.

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Wozzeck im Albtraum-Wald an der Oper Graz

Isabella Steppan, 18th March

Musikalisch packend und optisch stark wird Alban Bergs Werk zum echten Publikumshit.

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).