Beauty and the beast: Sciarrino's Venere e Adone premieres in Hamburg

Layla Claire (Venere)

Randall Scotting (Adone) and Layla Claire (Venere)

Randall Scotting (Adone)

Kady Evanyshyn (Amore) and Matthias Klink (Marte)

Layla Claire (Venere) and ensemble

Par Alexander Hall, 29 mai 2023

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“Sciarrino eschews harmony and rhythms, declassifying such features as mere ‘adhesive’”

Critique faite à Hamburgische Staatsoper: Main Hall, Hamburg, le 28 mai 2023

Sciarrino, Venere e Adone

Staatsoper Hamburg

Kent Nagano, Direction

Georges Delnon, Mise en scène

Varvara Timofeeva, Décors

Marie-Thérèse Jossen, Costumes

Carsten Sander, Lumières

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

Layla Claire, Venere

Randall Scotting, Adone

Matthias Klink, Marte

Cody Quattlebaum, Vulcano

Kady Evanyshyn, Amore

Evan Hughes, Il Mostro

Vera Talerko, La Fama

Nicholas Mogg, La Fama

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.

****1

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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Alexander Hall

Alexander Hall divides his time between London and Hamburg, where he had a career in academic administration and teaching. He reviews for Bachtrack and Opera Today, and has also reviewed for Classical Source. A connoisseur of the great orchestras of the world, his musical memories stretch back to Karajan/Berlin Phil, Mravinsky/Leningrad Phil, Bernstein/Vienna Phil, and he has seen most of the great conductors from the past, including Böhm, Klemperer, Kubelik, Ormandy and Szell.