A dud bullet: Thalheimer’s Freischütz fires blanks

Por Mark Pullinger, 06 octubre 2015

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“Anna Prohaska’s Ännchen stood out, her bright tone and excellent diction true assets”

Crítica hecha desde Schillertheater: Großer Saal, Berlín el 6 octubre 2015

Weber, Der Freischütz

Staatsoper Berlin

Alexander Soddy, Dirección

Michael Thalheimer, Dirección de escena

Olaf Altmann, Diseño de escena

Katrin Lea Tag, Diseño de vestuario

Alfredo Daza, Ottokar

Victor von Halem, Kuno

Anna Samuil, Agathe

Anna Prohaska, Ännchen

Falk Struckmann, Kaspar

Nikolai Schukoff, Max

Maximilian Krummen, Kilian

Wilhelm Schwinghammer, A Hermit

Peter Moltzen, Samiel

Staatskapelle Berlin

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

A dud bullet: Thalheimer’s Der Freischütz fires blanks at Staatsoper Berlin