Triumph für Marlis Petersen als Violetta

By Snapdragon, 14 July 2014

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“Ihre Leidenschaft und Verzweiflung wurden schmerzlich greifbar”

Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 11 July 2014

Verdi, La traviata

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sian Edwards, Conductor

Peter Konwitschny, Director

Marlis Petersen, Violetta Valéry

Arturo Chacón-Cruz, Alfredo Germont

Roberto Frontali, Giorgio Germont

Gaia Petrone, Annina

Iwona Sakowicz, Flora Bervoix

Andrew Owens, Gastone de Letorières

Ben Connor, Baron Douphol

Igor Bakan, Dr Grenvil

Giulio Mastrototaro, Marquis d'Obigny

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

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***11

The Best of All Possible Satires: Candide sparkles in Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 19th January

Lydia Steier's new production of Candide is a kaleidoscopic celebration of Leonard Bernstein's varied musical idioms.

*****

Deconstructed within an inch of its life: a new Lulu in Vienna

Chanda VanderHart, 31st May

Marlene Monteiro Freitas directs her first opera, in which Lulu, if not buried alive, is certainly left completely unrecognizable.

**111

Weinberg’s Dostoevsky drama crushes at MusikTheater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 30th April

Vasily Barkhatov directs a new production of Mieczysław Weinberg's rarely staged, massive and unwieldy opera at the MuseumsQuartier.

****1

Hilarious Périchole sends up Austrian political scandals

Chanda VanderHart, 25th January

“Lima darf nicht Österreich werden!” Offenbach's operetta is set in Lima, but really it’s Vienna in director Nikolaus Habjan uproarious production.

****1

Vienna meets London: Grosvenor and the Vienna Radio Symphony

David Karlin, 13th August

Hannah Eisendle's Heliosis proves the highlight of Prom 36, with Benjamin Grosvenor giving a performance of quality in Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto.

***11

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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.

La traviata im Theater an der Wien - ein Triumph für Marlis Petersen und Peter Konwitschny