Donald Runnicles' Lohengrin transcends the lack of a swan

Por Simon Rees, 03 mayo 2015

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“Waltraud Meier as Ortrud, singing with clotted venom”

Crítica hecha desde Deutsche Oper, Berlín el 25 abril 2015

Wagner, Lohengrin

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Sir Donald Runnicles, Dirección

Kasper Holten, Dirección de escena

Steffen Aarfing, Diseño de vestuario, Diseño de escena

Günther Groissböck, Heinrich der Vogler

Klaus Florian Vogt, Lohengrin

Anja Harteros, Elsa von Brabant

Waltraud Meier, Ortrud

John Lundgren, Friedrich von Telramund

Bastiaan Everink, The King's Herald

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Simon Rees

Simon Rees writes programme articles and surtitles for most British opera companies, and reviews for Opera, Opera Now, Musical Opinion, Early Music Today and a wide range of other publications. A novelist, poet and librettist, from 1989 to 2012 he was dramaturg at Welsh National Opera. He lives in Cardiff.