Heilsame Philip Glass-Kammeroper von Opera2Day

By Michael Klier, 19 February 2020

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“Um nicht im musealen Raum zu verdämmern, muss die Kunstform Oper neue Wege bewandern.”

Reviewed at Koninklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam on 18 February 2020

Glass, Fall of the House of Usher

Opera2Day

Carlo Boccadoro, Conductor

Serge van Veggel, Director

Herbert Janse, Set Designer

Mirjam Pater, Costume Designer

Lucie Chartin, Madeline Usher

Emma Fekete, Madeline Usher

Georgi Sztojanov, Physician, Roderick Usher

Santiago Burgi, Roderick Usher

Rene M. Broeders, Doctor Primus

Drew Santini, William

Rolfe Dauz, William

Ed Wubbe, Choreography

New European Ensemble

Scapino Ballet

Unsteady circus act blown away by spectacle: Opera2Day in Utrecht

Eleanor Knight, 20th February

Opera2Day, with 20 years of touring reinvented classics behind them, turn to Handel for their latest outing, The Opera Circus.

***11

Historie und Gegenwart: The Mad King bei OPERA2DAY

Rainer Zerbst, 22nd January

Regisseur Stefano Simone Pintor schafft ein Paradebeispiel für die Verbindung der guten alten Oper mit unserer Gegenwart.

*****

Unsteady circus act blown away by spectacle: Opera2Day in Utrecht

Eleanor Knight, 20th February

Opera2Day, with 20 years of touring reinvented classics behind them, turn to Handel for their latest outing, The Opera Circus.

***11

A witty hotel Don Giovanni opens Blackwater Valley Festival

Andrew Larkin, 27th May

Tom Creed’s witty production at Lismore Castle delivers strong singing, sharp comedy and lively orchestral playing, even if the opera’s darker supernatural edges are somewhat diminished.

****1

Werther revived at San Carlo: an anatomy of emotional isolation

Lorenzo Fiorito, 26th May

Willy Decker’s psychologically intense Werther returns to the Teatro di San Carlo with a deeply human interpretation by Francesco Demuro and refined conducting by Lorenzo Passerini.

*****

A birthday reimagining of Il viaggio a Reims in Salzburg

Laura Servidei, 25th May

In Barrie Kosky’s hyperactive staging, Il viaggio a Reims becomes a birthday tribute to Cecilia Bartoli complete with rewritten text, extravagant costumes, sexual escapades and a giant cake.

***11

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Michael Klier

Michael Klier macht schon seit mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert Musik. Als gebürtiger Berliner kam er 1993 nach Amsterdam. Er war Mitglied unterschiedlichster internationaler Ensembles und Orchester. Heute betreibt er eine florierende Unterrichts- und Coachingpraxis. Als Teamcoach bietet er dort Schulungen an, in denen die Kursteilnehmer miteinander komponieren, um so ihre ungenutzten kreativen Potentiale zu entdecken und besser miteinander zu kommunizieren. Denn: Musiker sind die Architekten des Himmels.