Closer to St. Trinian’s than Braveheart: Lucia in Hamburg

Por Jonathan Sutherland, 15 mayo 2017

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“more like a raffish popinjay out of Blackadder than a somber Stuart chaplain”

Crítica hecha desde Hamburgische Staatsoper: Main Hall, Hamburg el 13 mayo 2017

Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor

Staatsoper Hamburg

Pier Giorgio Morandi, Dirección

Sandra Leupold, Dirección de escena

Stefan Heinrichs, Diseño de escena

Esther Bialas, Diseño de vestuario

Alexey Bogdanchikov, Enrico

Katerina Tretyakova, Lucia

Ramón Vargas, Edgardo

Oleksiy Palchykov, Arturo

Sergei Ababkin, Normanno

Marta Świderska, Alisa

Alexander Roslavets, Raimondo

Thomas Güldenberg, Diseño de iluminación

Frauenliebe und -sterben: Kratzer’s triple bill at Staatsoper Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 15th April

Director Tobias Kratzer engineers a haunting pasticcio of Schumann, Bartók and Zemlinsky, tracing the domestic sphere’s shift from romantic surrender to the blood-soaked secrets of a century-spanning house.

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Vampires, Disney and Donald Trump: Monster’s Paradise in Hamburg

Kevin W Ng, 1st February

Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek take on Donald Trump in their latest operatic collaboration.

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Unsuk Chin's opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes premieres in Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 31st May

At Staatsoper Hamburg, Unsuk Chin’s new opera The Dark Side of the Moon immerses audiences in an hypnotic, introspective journey, where dreams, science and psyche collide in a rigorously crafted, thought-provoking spectacle.

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Franciscan virtues for a modern age: a multimedia Messiaen remix

Peter Quantrill, 2nd June

No half measures in a triple-decker Hamburg staging of Saint François d'Assise at the Elbphilharmonie.

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Enfant terrible: Dmitri Tcherniakovs Salome an der Staatsoper Hamburg

Alexandra Richter, 12th November

In Tcherniakovs neuer Inszenierung an der Staatsoper Hamburg ist Asmik Grigorian nach fünf Jahren endlich wieder als Salome zu erleben.

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Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history

Alexander Hall, 16th September

Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production.

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Jonathan Sutherland

Jonathan Sutherland is a graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. He is also an internationally renowned concert pianist specializing in the music of the 1930s. Jonathan’s first operatic experience was hearing Maria Callas sing Tosca in Covent Garden and he has since heard performances in all continents of the world including over 60 different productions at the Wiener Staatsoper. He has written for The Australian, Opera Today and The Opera Critic as well as Bachtrack. Jonathan speaks English, French, German and Italian fluently and is based in the south of France near Nice.