Historie und Gegenwart: The Mad King bei OPERA2DAY

By Rainer Zerbst, 25 January 2021

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“ein Paradebeispiel... für die Verbindung der guten alten Oper mit unserer Gegenwart”

Reviewed at Koninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague on 22 January 2021

Davies, Eight Songs for a Mad King (Music by Peter Maxwell Davies, Georg Frideric Handel and Brendan Faegre)

Opera2Day

Hernán Schvartzman, Conductor

Stefano Simone Pintor, Director

Herbert Janse, Set Designer

Uri Rapaport, Lighting Designer

Charles Johnston, King George III

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***11

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Mit einer ungewöhnlichen Publikumsbefragung zu Beginn, beschreitet Opera2Day neue Wege der Kunstform.

***11

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****1

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****1

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With its 1940s setting, Luca Del Fusco’s direction alienates in a new production of Gounod's Shakespeare-inspired opera.

***11

Romeo Castellucci directs a new Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala

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The Italian director makes his long-awaited Italian operatic debut at the Teatro alla Scala in a production which perfectly mirrors Debussy’s most enigmatic creation.

****1

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Rainer Zerbst

Seit dem Studium an den Universitäten Tübingen und Bangor und Promotion ist Rainer Zerbst freier Kulturjournalist für Hörfunk und Presse. Autor u.a. von "Antoni Gaudí".