Neuenfels' bloodless Salome in Berlin

Por Hugo Shirley, 10 marzo 2018

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“the production resolutely undercuts the visceral power that oozes from every note of the score”

Crítica hecha desde Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlín el 8 marzo 2018

Strauss R., Salomé

Staatsoper Berlin

Thomas Guggeis, Dirección

Hans Neuenfels, Dirección de escena

Reinhard von der Thannen, Diseño de escena, Diseño de vestuario

Aušrinė Stundytė, Salome

Marina Prudenskaya, Herodias

Gerhard Siegel, Herodes

Nikolai Schukoff, Narraboth

Thomas Johannes Mayer, Jochanaan

Annika Schlicht, Herodias' Page

Dietmar Kerschbaum, 1st Jew

Michael Smallwood, 2nd Jew

Linard Vrielink, 3rd Jew

Andrés Moreno García, 4th Jew

David Oštrek, 5th Jew

Adam Kutny, 1st Nazarene

Ulf Dirk Mädler, 2nd Nazarene

Arttu Kataja, 1st Soldier

Dominic Barberi, 2nd Soldier

Christian Natter, Actor

Sommer Ulrickson, Coreografía

Stefan Bolliger, Diseño de iluminación

Henry Arnold, Dramaturgia

Roman Reeger, Dramaturgia

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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.

The silvery light of the moon: Neuenfels' bloodless Salome at the Berliner Staatsoper