Overcrowding suffocates DNO's Traviata

Adela Zaharia (Violetta) and ensemble

Adela Zaharia (Violetta)

George Petean (Germont), Adela Zaharia (Violetta) and ensemble

George Petean (Germont), Adela Zaharia ((Violetta) and Bogdan Volkov (Alfredo)

Par Eleanor Knight, 29 janvier 2024

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“it’s as if Gürbaca has run individual lines of the libretto through an online symbolism generator”

Critique faite à Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam, le 27 janvier 2024

Verdi, La traviata

Dutch National Opera

Andrea Battistoni, Direction

Tatjana Gürbaca, Mise en scène

Henrik Ahr, Décors

Barbara Drosihn, Costumes

Stefan Bolliger, Lumières

Orchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam

Chœur du Dutch National Opera

Bettina Auer, Dramaturgie

Adela Zaharia, Violetta Valéry

Bogdan Volkov, Alfredo Germont

George Petean, Giorgio Germont

Inna Demenkova, Annina

Michael Wilmering, Marquis d'Obigny

Martina Myskohlid, Flora Bervoix

Roger Smeets, Baron Douphol

Bart Driessen, Dr Grenvil

Salvador Villanueva, Gastone de Letorières

Dimo Georgiev, Giuseppe

Christiaan Peters, Commissioner

Sander Heutinck, Flora's servant

Edward Ananian-Cooper, 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.