A Puccini hat-trick: Barrie Kosky directs Il trittico in Amsterdam

Joshua Guerrero (Luigi), Leah Hawkins (Giorgetta) and Daniel Luis de Vicente (Michele)

Il tabarro

Suor Angelica

Raehann Bryce-Davis (La zia principessa) and Elena Stikhina (Suor Angelica)

Gianni Schicchi

Par Eleanor Knight, 04 mai 2024

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“All the superlatives will be expended over this latest triumph... believe every one”

Critique faite à Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam, le 3 mai 2024

Puccini, Il tabarro

Puccini, Suor Angelica

Puccini, Gianni Schicchi

Dutch National Opera

Lorenzo Viotti, Direction

Barrie Kosky, Mise en scène

Rebecca Ringst, Décors

Victoria Behr, Costumes

Joachim Klein, Lumières

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Chœur du Dutch National Opera

Daniel Luis de Vicente, Michele, Gianni Schicchi

Leah Hawkins, Giorgetta

Joshua Guerrero, Luigi, Rinuccio

Mark Omvlee, Tinca, Gherardo

Sam Carl, Talpa, Betto di Signa

Raehann Bryce-Davis, La Frugola, La zia principessa

Inna Demenkova, Une amoureuse, Suor Genovieffa, Lauretta

Tigran Matinyan, Un amoureux, Un venditore di canzonette (un vendeur de chansons)

Elena Stikhina, Suor Angelica

Helena Rasker, La badessa, Zita

Polly Leech, La suora zelatrice, La Ciesca

Eva Kroon, La maestra delle novizie

Sophia Hunt, Suor Dolcina, Sœur bavarde 1, Nella

Ruth Willemse, Suor Osmina

Elsa Barthas, Sœur quêteuse 2

Vida Matičič Malnaršič, Una novizia

Martina Myskohlid, La suora infermiera

Lisette Bolle, Première sœur quêteuse

Yvonne Kok, Sœur bavarde 2

Scott Wilde, Simone

Georgiy Derbas-Richter, Marco

Tomeu Bibiloni, Maestro Spinelloccio

Frederik Bergman, Ser Amantio di Nicolao

Emmanuel Franco, Pinellino

Christiaan Peters, Guccio

Edward Ananian-Cooper, Chef de chœur

Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor

Anaïs de la Morandais, Chef de chœur

The Dutch National Ballet's Hans van Manen in Carré

Mark Vicente, 30th April

Dutch National Ballet give an exemplary account of a quadruple bill comprised of the late Hans van Manen's works. It's a wonderful tribute to the great master choreographer.

*****

Weinberg’s The Passenger at Dutch National Opera

Clare Varney, 17th April

Tobias Kratzer's 2024 Munich production makes its way to Amsterdam, proving that Weinberg's opera has the power to transfix.

****1

Dutch National Ballet's reimagined La Bayadère triumphs

Mark Vicente, 26th March

Dutch National Ballet's new production of La Bayadère does away with the ballet’s problematic gestures and movements, allowing the choreography to truly shine.

****1

Michel van der Aa’s Theory of Flames: defining opera for a modern age

Clare Varney, 6th March

British singers Mary Bevan and Roderick Williams lead the cast in Dutch National Opera’s latest ground-breaking opera, merging live music with pre-recorded film and electronics.

****1

Dutch National Ballet brings much needed heat to this winter season

Mark Vicente, 10th February

The Dutch National Ballet helped shake off those winter blues with a mixed programme that highlighted ballet’s love affair with Latin rhythms and movement.

****1

Malin Byström brilliert bei Isolde-Debüt in Amsterdam

Phillip Richter, 8th February

Die schwedische Sopranistin gibt ihr spannungsumwobenes Debüt als Isolde in Pierre Audis zeitloser Inszenierung.

*****

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.

A Puccini hat-trick: Barrie Kosky directs Il trittico at Dutch National Opera