Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Barrie Kosky

Un mois après le succès de La finta pazza, l’Opéra de Dijon assure avec Les Boréades un nouveau temps fort de la saison lyrique française, sous la direction d'Emmanuelle Haïm et dans la mise en scène de Barrie Kosky.

Cette Flûte Enchantée, aussi visuelle que musicale, est un spectacle pour tous, idéal pour initier à l’opéra les petits comme les grands.

La saison lyrique de l’Opéra de Dijon s’ouvre sur une production de Castor et Pollux qui ne laisse personne indifférent.

La producción de La flauta mágica de Kosky y Andrade regresa tras 4 años al Real con renovado éxito.

La producción de la Komische Oper de Berlín de La flauta mágica se presenta de nuevo en el Teatro Real. Un montaje de inspiración cinematográfica que no acaba de reflejar los ideales del Singspiel de Mozart. 

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Semele willingly pays the price of death through transformation. 

Barrie Kosky's makes a limited impact in his debut at Opéra de Paris, apart from an hallucinogenic Polovtsian Dances.

Sophisticated interpretation of The Bassarids by Hans Werner Henze at the Komische Oper Berlin

An over-directed, but vivid staging demonstrating political rise and fall in Ancient Rome transported to the present day.

Barrie Kosky's stark, spare La bohème gave it a rare spark of humanity focused on Marina Costa-Jackson's haunting Mimì, whose existence became the central focus even when she wasn't singing.

The Salzburg Festival's production of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is another classic in the making from Barrie Kosky.

Kosky’s production manages to maintain all hallmarks of a 16th-century fairy tale, while juxtaposing them with questions of deep human, political and artistic problems. Regietheater at its best.

Beklemmend, aber auch komisch zeigt Kosky, wie wirkungsvoll Betrug doch ist; Ähnlichkeiten mit lebenden Personen sind dabei nicht beabsichtigt, aber unvermeidlich.

Barrie Kosky's divisive production returns to The Royal Opera but has lost its zing. 

Mit Barrie Koskys Inszenierung von Claude Debussys einzig vollendeter Oper rückt Alexander Soddy die Stille ins Zentrum der Musik.

M – a city searches for a murderer, by Moritz Eggert and Barrie Kosky, receives its world premiere at the Komische Oper Berlin.

The Queen of the Night appeared as a malevolent giant spider, complete with exoskeleton, threatening Tamino with her stabbing limbs and summoning hordes of smaller spiders to writhe over Pamina when the latter hesitated to commit to Sarastro's murder.

The new version of La bohème at the Komische Oper Berlin follows a hard Verismo-beat.

Barrie Kosky's troubled production returns to Covent Garden

Serious farce, warm-hearted sarcasm, operatic Broadway: Barrie Kosky and Komische Oper turn Bernstein's problem child into a show that thrills from start to finish.

Barrie Kosky’s production of Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten (The Branded) is in keeping with what was long considered one of the early 20th century’s most scandalous works. 

Barrie Kosky's punchy, visually exhilarating take on Saul, with Iestyn Davies as a sublime David, makes for a powerful evening of drama at Glyndebourne.

There’s no doubt that Mélisande endeavours to escape past troubles when she first appears in Barrie Kosky’s production of Debussy’s opera, yet Nadja Mchantaf is no reticent, wispy maiden. Every vocal and physical gesture – always precise and penetrating – displays an atypically forthright quest for vitality, something that Arkel’s chauvinistic world does not readily offer.

Shostakovich's early masterpiece is fêted at the Komische Oper Berlin

Handel’s Semele is presented as a flashback at the Komische Oper in Berlin. 

Tchaikovsky's opera packs a powerful emotional punch in the Komische Oper's concentrated and dreamlike production.

Kosky’s The Nose hits Sydney, sweeping the audience along with hallucinogenic energy. Led by the outstanding Martin Winkler and John Tomlinson, singers and musicians deliver a wild evening's entertainment.

Interesting ideas and a brilliant orchestral performance aren't enough to overcome a visually dull staging, predictable choreography and a lack of chemistry between the protagonists.

“Fiddler on the Roof” as a universal parable of tradition 

Barrie Kosky’s clever direction enlivens a Strauss rarity at the Bayerische Staatsoper but the minimalist stage setting sinks HMS Schweigsame Frau.

Introspected and atmospheric, this late romantic opera appeals to the psychotherapists within us.

Barrie Kosky’s atypically conservative production of the Russian classic was marked by musical direction and vocal performances of the highest order.

Mozart meets the movies as 1927's wacky production comes to Opera Philadelphia. 

The label “most opera directors” does *not* apply to Barrie Kosky, who makes his Bayreuth debut with a Meistersinger that pulls no punches.

Animated characters are the real stars of an imaginative production of The Magic Flute. 

Barrie Kosky spielt in einer neuen Fassung von Die Krönung der Poppea an der Komischen Oper mit traditionellen Konventionen des Männlich-Weiblichen.

With a guest performance of the Komische Oper Berlin, Barrie Kosky's and Suzanne Andrade's magical production triumphs in Budapest.

Sorochyntsi Fair was last performed at Berlin's Komische Oper in 1948 by the legendary stage director Walter Felsenstein. Now Barrie Kosky, stage director and intendant, has tried his hand.

The stunning Glyndebourne production of Saul by Barrie Kosky also makes a big impact in the Adelaide Festival.

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

Auch nach vier Jahren lockt die Produktion von Mozarts Evergreen das Publikum in Scharen ins Opernhaus und verspricht einen anregenden Abend.

Barrie Kosky's 2011 production confines the action of the opera to a stark white room. A fine ensemble of singers made for a successful evening.

I arrived at the Royal Opera House in the usual way, settled into my seat, and – could you believe it – the opera was gone!

El Liceu comienza su temporada con La flauta mágica, en una producción de inspiración cinematográfica que conforma un espectáculo audiovisual abierto a todos los públicos completado por una interpretación ágil de la partitura.

If you can imagine an undiscovered PG Wodehouse story set to music by Cole Porter, you wouldn’t be far off. 

Paula Murrihys Rollendebüt in Frankfurt entpuppt sich nicht als betörend, sondern als unwiderstehlich cool.

Barrie Kosky’s new Macbeth is devoid of riff-raff, shrill costumes and anything trivial. Instead, it’s a feast for the imagination, a case for modern opera at its very best. 

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

Arriesgada y deliciosa recreación humorística de la obra mozartiana en clave de cine mudo, lejos de cualquier simbología o pretensión de profundidad