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Karen Hunter

Karen Hunter

Karen Hunter graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts and the St Louis Conservatory of Music, having trained as an oboist. In 1996 she traded a spot on the stage for a place in the audience with her permanent move to Berlin, Germany. Here she finds no shortage of great concerts to attend.

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Muddled symbolism: Verdi's Nabucco at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Par Karen Hunter, 14 janvier 2017

January of 2017 sees the return of Verdi's Nabucco at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. This Keith Warner production of a Verdi favorite was successfully premiered by the Deutsche Oper in 2013, in the 200th anniversary year of Verdi's birth.

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Muddled symbolism: Verdi's Nabucco at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Par Karen Hunter

A Kosky Berliner Schnauze: Die Perlen der Cleopatra

Par Karen Hunter, 07 décembre 2016

A hilarious pearl of an operetta. Barry Kosky reigns supreme in Berlin!

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A Kosky Berliner Schnauze: Die Perlen der Cleopatra

Par Karen Hunter

Serebrennikov's Barber confronts the millennial generation at Komische Oper

Par Karen Hunter, 09 octobre 2016

Before the beginning of each opera, an announcement is made reminding the audience not to film, photograph, tweet, post, google, snapchat... Komische Oper Berlin premieres a hilarious Barber of Seville where the singers do nothing but just that.

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Confronting the millennial generation at Komische Oper

Par Karen Hunter

Great fun: Rossini's Barber of Seville at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Par Karen Hunter, 10 septembre 2016

Enjoy this light and elegant opera buffa based on the play by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais before year's end, as 2016 marks the 200th anniversary year of its premiere.

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Rossini's Barber at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Par Karen Hunter

A wretched road trip: Rodrigo Garcia's The Abduction from the Seraglio at Deutsche Oper

Par Karen Hunter, 17 juin 2016

Stage director Rodrigo Garcia makes a controversial opera debut with The Abduction from the Seraglio in Berlin.

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A wretched road trip at Deutsche Oper

Par Karen Hunter

A dream team at Staatsoper Berlin for Martinů's Juliette

Par Karen Hunter, 28 mai 2016

An outstanding premiere of Bohuslav Martinů's Juliette at the Schiller Theater in Berlin has a delighted public jumping to their feet with applause.

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A Dream team at Staatsoper Berlin for Martinů's Juliette

Par Karen Hunter

Don Giovanni in the Komische Oper: frankly too charming to burn in hell

Par Karen Hunter, 14 mai 2016

Revel with a naughty Don Giovanni at the Komische Opera in Berlin.

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Don Giovanni: frankly too charming to burn in hell

Par Karen Hunter

Elektra: A family feud extraordinaire at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Par Karen Hunter, 03 avril 2016

Elektra, as performed during the Deutsche Oper Berlin Strauss-Wochen: Such gorgeous music, we will all want to dance ourselves to death.

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Elektra: A family feud extraordinaire at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Par Karen Hunter

Der Vampyr rises at Komische Oper

Par Karen Hunter, 20 mars 2016

There may be spiders, or zombies above your head. A spook show? Berlin's Komische Oper premiers a gothic musical theatre work by Heinrich Marschner... and it is a gory, good romp.

Der Vampyr rises at Komische Oper

Par Karen Hunter

A scarlet letter: Barrie Kosky's staging of Eugene Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin

Par Karen Hunter, 06 février 2016

Barrie Kosky's new production of Eugene Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin is delicious for the eyes, ears and emotions.

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A scarlet letter: Eugene Onegin at the Komische Oper Berlin

Par Karen Hunter