Ausflug nach Absurdistan: Die letzte Verschwörung an der Volksoper

Wallis Giunta (Natalya Ostrova) und Daniel Schmutzhard (Der Kanzler)

Timothy Fallon (Friedrich Quant) und Wallis Giunta (Elisabeth)

Rebecca Nelsen (Lara Lechner), Timothy Fallon (Friedrich Quant) und Orhan Yildiz (Dieter Urban)

Timothy Fallon (Friedrich Quant) und das Wiener Staatsballett

Timothy Fallon (Friedrich Quant) und Jakob Semotan (Alois Dunkler)

Die letzte Verschwörung

By Snapdragon, 27 March 2023

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“es bleibt ein schales Gefühl, denn auch der spektakulärste Trash ist letztendlich nur Humbug”

Reviewed at Volksoper Wien, Vienna on 25 March 2023

Eggert, Die letzte Verschwörung

Volksoper Wien

Steven Sloane, Conductor

Lotte de Beer, Director

Christof Hetzer, Set Designer

Jorine van Beek, Costume Designer

Alex Brok, Lighting Designer

Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper

Chorus of the Vienna Volksoper

Timothy Fallon, Friedrich Quant

Wallis Giunta, Elisabeth, Natalya Ostrova

Rebecca Nelsen, Lara Lechner, Das SYSTEM

Orhan Yildiz, Dieter Urban, Mr. Goodman, Der Kanzler

Annelie Sophie Müller, Georgina von Solingen

Jakob Semotan, Alois Dunkler

Aaron Pendleton, Edgar Binder, Pressereferent des Kanzlers, GORD

Georg Wacks, Animateur

Otto Pichler, Choreography

Roger Díaz-Cajamarca, Choirmaster / chorus director

An empty glitter bomb: Aschenbrödels Traum at the Volksoper Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 4th December

A dizzying premise from Martina Eisenreich and Axel Ranisch, loosely drawing on Johann Strauss II’s unfinished ballet Aschenbrödel, which tries to be everything, all at once.

***11

Death, interrupted: KaiserRequiem moves at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 25th January

Omer Meir Wellber’s Mozart-Ullmann mash-up sounds like a terrible idea, but absolutely hits the mark.

****1

Paging Dr Freud! Iolanta and the Nutcracker at the Volksoper Wien

Mark Pullinger, 5th December

When is The Nutcracker not The Nutcracker? When's it's mashed together with Tchaikovsky's Iolanta to represent the blind princess’ inner world in a dark interpretation.

****1

Ella Milch-Sheriff’s Alma emerges as a dark triumph at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 31st October

A haunting, musically compelling impression of a woman whose life was shaped by creation, loss, and unfulfilled thirst for personal expression.

****1

Femicide! A controversial Carmen from Lotte de Beer at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 6th October

Lotte de Beer’s new retelling at the Volksoper reintroduces the element of shock into Bizet's popular opera.

****1

The subconscious at play: Lady in the Dark at the Volksoper

Chanda VanderHart, 18th December

Kurt Weill's musical, with its focus on psychoanalysis, makes its Austrian premiere in the city of Sigmund Freud.

****1

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Snapdragon

Snapdragon is an experienced concert- and opera-goer in Vienna and other music metropoles. Musical emphases include opera (especially Baroque opera) and piano music. As an Austrian native, Snapdragon can’t resist an operetta every now and then.

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