Hindemith's Die Harmonie der Welt in Linz

Par Hugo Shirley, 13 avril 2017

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“a work of utmost musical and dramatic clarity based on theories of considerable complexity”

Critique faite à Landestheater, Linz, le 11 avril 2017

Hindemith, Die Harmonie der Welt

Landestheater Linz

Gerrit Prießnitz, Direction

Dietrich Hilsdorf, Mise en scène

Dieter Richter, Décors

Renate Schmitzer, Costumes

Sandra Trattnigg, Susanne

Sven Hjörleifsson, Ulrich Grüßer

Jacques le Roux, Wallenstein

Seho Chang, Johannes Kepler

Matthias Helm, Tansur

Christoph Blitt, Dramaturgie

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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.

Music drama of the spheres: Hindemith's Die Harmonie der Welt in Linz