Donald Runnicles' Lohengrin transcends the lack of a swan

Par Simon Rees, 03 mai 2015

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“Waltraud Meier as Ortrud, singing with clotted venom”

Critique faite à Deutsche Oper, Berlin, le 25 avril 2015

Wagner, Lohengrin

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Sir Donald Runnicles, Direction

Kasper Holten, Mise en scène

Steffen Aarfing, Costumes, Décors

Günther Groissböck, Heinrich der Vogler

Klaus Florian Vogt, Lohengrin

Anja Harteros, Elsa von Brabant

Waltraud Meier, Ortrud

John Lundgren, Friedrich von Telramund

Bastiaan Everink, The King's Herald

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Renaissance berlinoise pour les 7 Deaths of Maria Callas

Emma Granier, 8th April

Cette création-hommage à la Callas reprend les arias les plus célèbres de la chanteuse, habilement tissés entre eux par la musique de Marko Nikodijević et la présence de Marina Abramović.

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Tannhäuser au Deutsche Oper : tout avait pourtant si bien commencé...

Stéphane Lelièvre, 20th February

Mis en scène par Kirsten Harms, Tannhäuser s'avère inégal. Se distinguent Ante Jerkunica (en Landgrave royal) et Camilla Nylund, formidable dans sa double interprétation de Venus/Elisabeth.

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L’italiana in Algeri in the wrestling ring at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Zenaida des Aubris, 8th March

A classic opera buffa gets an update by Rolando Villazón to a produce a staging that celebrates the timeless vitality of Rossini’s comic imagination.

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Between ecstasy and abyss: Korngold’s Violanta at the Deutsche Oper

Zenaida des Aubris, 25th January

David Hermann directs a new production of Korngold’s teenage opera, conducted by Sir Donald Runnicles, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

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Giordano's Fedora at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Elena Luporini, 27th November

A new production of Fedora at the Deutsche Oper Berlin warms up the cold German winter, featuring strong lead performances by Vida Miknevičiūtė and Jonathan Tetelman.

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Thalheimer’s directs a static new Berlin Tristan und Isolde

Zenaida des Aubris, 1st November

At the start of his farewell to Deutsche Oper Berlin, Sir Donald Runnicles shines with his orchestra, supplying the passion and tension withheld in Michael Thalheimer’s production.

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Simon Rees

Simon Rees writes programme articles and surtitles for most British opera companies, and reviews for Opera, Opera Now, Musical Opinion, Early Music Today and a wide range of other publications. A novelist, poet and librettist, from 1989 to 2012 he was dramaturg at Welsh National Opera. He lives in Cardiff.