Verführung bei den Royals: Salieris Falstaff unterhält mit Lust, Intrigen und Eifersucht

By Maurice Chales de Beaulieu, 14 October 2016

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“Anett Fritschs zwischen warm-weich und brillant changierender Sopran bot musikalische Höhepunkte”

Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 12 October 2016

Salieri, Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle

MusikTheater an der Wien

René Jacobs, Conductor

Torsten Fischer, Director, Lighting Designer

Herbert Schäfer, Set Designer, Dramaturgy

Vasilis Triantafilopoulos, Costume Designer

Christoph Pohl, Sir John Falstaff

Maxim Mironov, Master Ford

Anett Fritsch, Mistress Ford

Arttu Kataja, Master Slender

Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Mistress Slender

Robert Gleadow, Bardolf

Mirella Hagen, Betty

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Rudolf Karasek, Actor

Heidelinde Sedlecky, Actor

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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Maurice Chales de Beaulieu

Nach dem Abitur am Arndt-Gymnasium Dahlem in Berlin folgte das Magisterstudium der Musikwissenschaft und Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Freien Universität Berlin, Technischen Universität Berlin sowie der Università degli Studi Ca‘ Foscari in Venedig. 2011 Abschluss mit einer Arbeit über Paisiellos Il re Teodoro in Venezia. Im Anschluss Promotionsstudium in Wien über die Wiener Drammi eroicomici zwischen 1770 und 1800.