Jolanthe und der Nussknacker: Volksoper Wien lässt die Puppen tanzen

Christopher Krasnansky (Prinz Nussknacker) und Mila Schmidt (Jolanthe)

Annelie Sophie Müller (Laura), Olesya Golovneva (Jolanthe), Anita Götz (Brigitte)

Jolanthe und der Nussknacker

Mila Schmidt (Jolanthe)

Olesya Golovneva (Jolanthe), Georgy Vasiliev (Graf Vaudemont), Szymon Komasa (Ibn Hakia)

Mila Schmidt (Jolanthe) und Felipe Vieira (Prinz Nussknacker)

By Norman Schwarze, 11 October 2022

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“so farbenfroh und überladen wie ein zuckersüßes russisches Märchen”

Reviewed at Volksoper Wien, Vienna on 9 October 2022

Tchaikovsky, Iolanta

Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker

Volksoper Wien

Omer Meir Wellber, Conductor

Lotte de Beer, Director

Katrin Lea Tag, Set Designer

Jorine van Beek, Costume Designer

Alex Brok, Lighting Designer

Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper

Chorus of the Vienna Volksoper

Olesya Golovneva, Iolanta

Stefan Cerny, King René

Georgy Vasiliev, Vaudémont

Andrei Bondarenko, Robert

Szymon Komasa, Ibn-Hakia

David Kerber, Alméric

Yasushi Hirano, Bertrand

Stephanie Maitland, Martha

Anita Götz, Brigitta

Annelie Sophie Müller, Laura

Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Choreography

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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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