Champagner! Peter Lunds neue Csárdásfürstin an der Volksoper Wien

By Snapdragon, 28 September 2018

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“als Sylva Varescu war Pfitzner ein echtes „Teufelsweib“”

Reviewed at Volksoper Wien, Vienna on 25 September 2018

Kálmán, Die Csárdásfürstin (The Gypsy Princess)

Volksoper Wien

Alfred Eschwé, Conductor

Peter Lund, Director

Ulrike Reinhard, Set Designer

Daria Kornysheva, Costume Designer

Juliette Khalil, Countess Stasi

Johanna Arrouas, Countess Stasi

Elissa Huber, Sylva Varescu

Ursula Pfitzner, Sylva Varescu

Sigrid Hauser, Anhilte

Jakob Semotan, Baron Boni Káncsiánu

Lucian Krasznec, Edwin Ronald

Szabolcs Brickner, Edwin Ronald

Boris Eder, Feri von Kerekes

Axel Herrig, Feri von Kerekes

Robert Meyer, Leopold Maria

Christian Graf, Oberleutnant von Rohnsdorff

Andreas Ivancsics, Video

Andrea Heil, Choreography

Holger Kristen, Choirmaster / chorus director

Chorus of the Vienna Volksoper

Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper

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.

Champagner! Peter Lunds Neuinszenierung von Die Csárdásfürstin an der Volksoper Wien