Blutige Angelegenheit: Francesco Gasparinis Ambleto am MTadW

Erika Baikoff (Ophelia)

Raffaele Pe (Hamlet) und Erika Baikoff (Ophelia)

Erika Baikoff (Ophelia) und Maayan Licht (Laertes)

Ambleto

Erika Baikoff (Ophelia) und Raffaele Pe (Hamlet)

Ana Maria Labin (Gertrude), Raffaele Pe (Hamlet), Miklós Sebestyén (Claudius)

Erika Baikoff (Ophelia), Maayan Licht (Laertes) und Ana Maria Labin (Gertrude)

Erika Baikoff (Ophelia)

By Norman Schwarze, 10 May 2025

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“vom vielen Blut abgesehen, setz Ilaria Lanzino in dieser Inszenierung auf bewährte Konzepte”

Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 8 May 2025

Gasparini, Ambleto

MusikTheater an der Wien

Ilaria Lanzino, Director

Martin Hickmann, Set Designer

Vanessa Rust, Costume Designer

Anselm Fischer, Lighting Designer

La Lira di Orfeo

Christian Schröder, Dramaturgy

Raffaele Pe, Hamlet

Miklós Sebestyén, Claudius

Ana Maria Labin, Getrude

Erika Baikoff, Ophelia

Nikolay Borchev, Polonius

Maayan Licht, Laertes

Elisa Citterio, Leader

Stefan Herheim’s bold Fledermaus at MusikTheater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 13th October

Herheim’s Fledermaus is a risky experiment that, miraculously, works – at least in a city that knows it so intimately.

****1

Miroslav Srnka’s Voice Killer premieres at MusikTheater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 16th June

At MusikTheater an der Wien, Miroslav Srnka’s new opera provess a deeply compelling, meticulously crafted work. It may not uplift, but it sears itself into the memory.

****1

Fish, frocks and farce: a Prokofiev romp in Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 28th March

Damiano Michieletto directs a slick and frequently hilarious staging of Prokofiev's comic opera Betrothal in a Monastery.

***11

Grigorian and Akhmetshina dazzle in a secular Norma

Chanda VanderHart, 19th February

In a week where Vienna welcomes two new productions of Bellini's Norma, MusikTheater an der Wien sets a high bar with Vasily Barkhatov's staging.

****1

Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor

Chanda VanderHart, 28th April

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Arnold Schoenberg’s well-documented phobia of the number 13 aside, he could not have asked for a superior tribute in his 150th anniversary year.

****1

Not quite a premiere, not quite a success: Salieri’s Kublai Khan

Chanda VanderHart, 7th April

Martin G Berger exhaustively reworks the story and the libretto of Salieri's Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari and throws the kitchen sink at this new production, but not everything lands well.

***11

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Norman Schwarze

Norman ist Münchner, absoluter Reisefanatiker, Blogger und Opernliebhaber seit frühester Kindheit. Besonders begeistert er sich für progressive Inszenierungen und Stücke des 21. Jahrhunderts. Nach seinem Studium der Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaften orientierte er sich neu und arbeitet nun als Produktmanager im Börsenumfeld. Das ist sein Blog: www.annees-de-pelerinage.com

Blutige Angelegenheit: Francesco Gasparinis Ambleto am MusikTheater an der Wien