Vasco da Gama sets sail in style

Par Mark Pullinger, 05 octobre 2015

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“Vasco is caught in three love triangles, the geometry of which is quite messy”

Critique faite à Deutsche Oper, Berlin, le 4 octobre 2015

Meyerbeer, Vasco da Gama

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Enrique Mazzola, Direction

Vera Nemirova, Mise en scène

Jens Kilian, Décors

Marie-Thérèse Jossen, Costumes

Roberto Alagna, Vasco de Gama

Sophie Koch, Sélika

Markus Brück, Nélusko

Nino Machaidze, Inès

Irene Roberts, Anna

Clemens Bieber, Don Alvaro

Andrew Harris, Don Diégo

Seth Carico, Don Pédro

Dong-Hwan Lee, Grand Inquisitor of Lisbon

Albert Pesendorfer, High Priest of Brahma

Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Paradise regained: Vasco da Gama sets sail in style at Deutsche Oper