More glitter than gold: the Berliner Staatsoper's new Rosenkavalier

Por Hugo Shirley, 11 febrero 2020

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“Camilla Nylund is fast becoming a reigning Strauss soprano”

Crítica hecha desde Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlín el 9 febrero 2020

Strauss R., El caballero de la rosa

Staatsoper Berlin

Zubin Mehta, Dirección

André Heller, Dirección de escena

Xenia Hausner, Diseño de escena

Arthur Arbesser, Diseño de vestuario

Camilla Nylund, Feldmarschallin

Nadine Sierra, Sophie

Michèle Losier, Octavian

Roman Trekel, Herr von Faninal

Günther Groissböck, Baron Ochs

Anna Samuil, Marianne

Katharina Kammerloher, Annina

Linard Vrielink, A vendor of pets

Andrés Moreno García, An innkeeper

Florian Hoffmann, Feldmarschallin's Major-Domo

Atalla Ayan, Italian Singer

Karl-Michael Ebner, Valzacchi

Frederic Jost, Notary

Erik Rosenius, Police inspector

Wolfgang Schilly, Dirección de escena

Benjamin Wäntig, Dramaturgia

Olaf Freese, Diseño de iluminación

Günter Jäckle, Videoarte

Anna Milukova, Dirección de coro

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Hugo Shirley

Hugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic in the UK, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and has a PhD in musicology from King's College London, where his thesis focused on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.