Keith Warners Alte Dame besucht Wien

By Snapdragon, 23 March 2018

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“Wird die Alte Dame so treffend inszeniert und musiziert, darf sie ruhig öfter zu Besuch kommen.”

Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 20 March 2018

von Einem, Der Besuch der alten Dame (The Visit of the old lady)

MusikTheater an der Wien

Michael Boder, Conductor

Keith Warner, Director

David Fielding, Set Designer

Katarina Karnéus, Claire Zachanassian

Mark Milhofer, The butler

Erik Årman, Husband no. 9

Adrian Eröd, The teacher

Russell Braun, Alfred Ill

Cornelia Horak, Mathilde

Anna Marshania, Ottilie

Johannes Bamberger, Karl

Raymond Very, The mayor

Martin Achrainer, Dr. Nüsslein

Florian Köfler, Hahncke

Markus Butter, The preacher

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

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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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.

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