Zemlinsky takes centre stage in Deutsche Oper’s Der Zwerg

Par Hugo Shirley, 26 mars 2019

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“commanding Zemlinsky’s taxing notes with firm, focused and pleasingly plangent tone”

Critique faite à Deutsche Oper, Berlin, le 24 mars 2019

Zemlinsky, Der Zwerg (The Dwarf)

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Sir Donald Runnicles, Direction

Tobias Kratzer, Mise en scène

Rainer Sellmaier, Décors, Costumes

Elena Tsallagova, Donna Clara

Emily Magee, Ghita

David Butt Philip, The Dwarf

Philipp Jekal, Don Estoban

Nicole Haslett, First Maid

Amber Fasquelle, Second Maid

Maiju Vaahtoluoto, Third Maid

Mick Morris Mehnert, Comédien

Stefan Woinke, Lumières

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Hugo Shirley

Hugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic in the UK, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and has a PhD in musicology from King's College London, where his thesis focused on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.