Modified rapture: Tcherniakov's new Tristan

Por Hugo Shirley, 13 febrero 2018

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“Barenboim... hovered constantly on the line between languorous and lugubrious”

Crítica hecha desde Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlín el 11 febrero 2018

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde

Staatsoper Berlin

Daniel Barenboim, Dirección

Dmitri Tcherniakov, Dirección de escena, Diseño de escena

Elena Zaytseva, Diseño de vestuario

Anja Kampe, Isolde

Andreas Schager, Tristan

Stephen Milling, King Marke

Ekaterina Gubanova, Brangäne

Stephan Rügamer, Melot

Linard Vrielink, Shepherd, Young seaman

Adam Kutny, Helmsman

Boaz Daniel, Kurwenal

Gleb Filshtinsky, Diseño de iluminación

Martin Wright, Dirección de coro

Detlef Giese, 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.

Modified rapture: Tcherniakov's new Tristan und Isolde at the Staatsoper Berlin