Bayreuth comes to the Ruhr for a new Tristan und Isolde

Von John Johnston, 06 März 2017

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen, am 4 März 2017

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde

Musiktheater im Revier

Rasmus Baumann, Musikalische Leitung

Michael Schulz, Regie

Kathrin-Susann Brose, Bühnenbild

Renée Listerdal, Kostüme

Catherine Foster, Isolde

Torsten Kerl, Tristan

Phillip Ens, König Marke

Urban Malmberg, Kurwenal

Almuth Herbst, Brangäne

Piotr Prochera, Melot

William Saetre, Hirte

Ibrahim Yesilay, Junger Seemann

Jacoub Eisa, Steuermann

Neue Philharmonie Westfalen

Local colour: Mathis der Maler in the Ruhr

Matthew Rye, 28th October

Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen's new production of Hindemith's meditation on art and politics, Mathis der Maler, draws upon the Ruhr's modern art legacy.

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Local colour: Mathis der Maler in the Ruhr

Matthew Rye, 28th October

Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen's new production of Hindemith's meditation on art and politics, Mathis der Maler, draws upon the Ruhr's modern art legacy.

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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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Anna Netrebko glänzt in Wiens zeitloser Tosca

Laura Servidei, 18th April

In einer Welt, in der Operninszenierungen oft ins Abstrakte abgleiten, bietet die „Tosca“ der Wiener Staatsoper eine erfrischende Rückkehr zur Tradition – und Anna Netrebko liefert eine großartige Darbietung.

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Liebeswirren in Mozarts La finta giardiniera in Nürnberg

Michael Vieth, 14th April

Die Regisseurin Brigitte Fassbaender beweist einen grünen Daumen für Mozarts frühes Dramma giocosa und lässt neben mitreißend witzigem Szenenspiel einfühlsame Charakterporträts entstehen.

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John Johnston

John Johnston was a contributor to Bachtrack 2017-19. John was a true gentleman and lifelong opera "nut" who frequently travelled across Europe to catch performances, making regular pilgrimages to the Bayreuth Festival among others. His supreme knowledge and appreciation of voices meant he took to reviewing like the proverbial duck to water. We enjoyed his style and his insatiable appetite for catching rare operas and new productions wherever he could.

Bayreuth comes to the Ruhr: leading Wagner singers in Gelsenkirchen for a new Tristan und Isolde