Märchen X Traumnovelle: Schwanda am MusikTheater an der Wien

Ester Pavlu (Königin) und Andrè Schuen (Schwanda)

Vera-Lotte Boecker (Dorota)

Vera-Lotte Boecker (Dorota) und Andrè Schuen (Schwanda)

Andrè Schuen (Schwanda)

Pavol Breslik (Babinsky)

Iurie Ciobanu (Des Teufels Famulus), Andrè Schuen (Schwanda), Pavol Breslik (Babinsky)

Pavol Breslik (Babinsky) und Andrè Schuen (Schwanda)

By Isabella Steppan, 24 November 2023

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“der tiefenpsychologisch modernisierte Märchentrip sorgt für einen neuen Blickwinkel auf das Werk”

Reviewed at MuseumsQuartier Wien: Halle E, Vienna on 22 November 2023

Weinberger, Schwanda the Bagpiper

MusikTheater an der Wien

Petr Popelka, Conductor

Tobias Kratzer, Director

Rainer Sellmaier, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Michael Bauer, Lighting Designer

Vienna Symphony Orchestra

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Jonas Dahl, Video

Manuel Braun, Video

Andrè Schuen, Švanda

Vera-Lotte Boecker, Dorotka

Ester Pavlů, Queen

Pavol Breslik, Babinský

Iurie Ciobanu, Executioner, Familiar

Miloš Bulajić, Judge, Captain of the Devil's Guard, First Forester

Krešimir Stražanac, Devil

Sorin Coliban, Magician

Henry Neill, Second Forester

Erwin Ortner, Choirmaster / chorus director

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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Isabella Steppan

Isabella lebt in Graz und unterrichtet Deutsch und Philosophie/Psychologie. Ihre Freizeit verbringt sie am liebsten in der Oper, in klassischen Konzerten oder im Theater. Ihr Herz schlägt besonders für die Oper des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts und die Operette. Als @operafangirl ist sie auf Twitter aktiv.

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