From femme fatale to angel: Lulu in Hamburg

Par Matthew Rye, 13 février 2017

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“Barbara Hannigan... negotiating the part’s stratospheric highs while hanging upsidedown”

Critique faite à Hamburgische Staatsoper: Main Hall, Hamburg, le 12 février 2017

Berg, Lulu

Staatsoper Hamburg

Kent Nagano, Direction

Christoph Marthaler, Mise en scène

Anna Viebrock, Décors, Costumes

Barbara Hannigan, Lulu

Anne Sofie von Otter, Countess Geschwitz

Marta Świderska, Theatrical Dresser

Matthias Klink, Alwa

Peter Lodahl, Negro, The Painter

Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Dr. Schön / Jack the Ripper

Victor von Halem, Schigolch, an old man

Tigran Martirossian, Animal Tamer, Athlete

Denis Velev, Theatre manager

Martin Gebhardt, Lumières

Malte Ubenauf, Dramaturgie

Veronika Eberle, Violon

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Une partie de chasse maléfique

Anne-Laure Faubert, 14th September

Pierre fondatrice de la tradition de l’opéra romantique allemand, Der Freischütz rappelle que quiconque pénètre dans la forêt entreprend une quête qui aboutit au Bien ou au Mal selon ses choix.

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Frauenliebe und -sterben: Kratzer’s triple bill at Staatsoper Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 15th April

Director Tobias Kratzer engineers a haunting pasticcio of Schumann, Bartók and Zemlinsky, tracing the domestic sphere’s shift from romantic surrender to the blood-soaked secrets of a century-spanning house.

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Vampires, Disney and Donald Trump: Monster’s Paradise in Hamburg

Kevin W Ng, 1st February

Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek take on Donald Trump in their latest operatic collaboration.

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Unsuk Chin's opera Die dunkle Seite des Mondes premieres in Hamburg

Mengguang Huang, 31st May

At Staatsoper Hamburg, Unsuk Chin’s new opera The Dark Side of the Moon immerses audiences in an hypnotic, introspective journey, where dreams, science and psyche collide in a rigorously crafted, thought-provoking spectacle.

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Franciscan virtues for a modern age: a multimedia Messiaen remix

Peter Quantrill, 2nd June

No half measures in a triple-decker Hamburg staging of Saint François d'Assise at the Elbphilharmonie.

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Enfant terrible: Dmitri Tcherniakovs Salome an der Staatsoper Hamburg

Alexandra Richter, 12th November

In Tcherniakovs neuer Inszenierung an der Staatsoper Hamburg ist Asmik Grigorian nach fünf Jahren endlich wieder als Salome zu erleben.

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).