Werthers und Charlottes Leiden: Massenets Oper in Baden-Baden

Jonathan Tetelman (Werther) und Kate Lindsey (Charlotte)

Kate Lindsey (Charlotte)

Werther

Kate Lindsey (Charlotte)

Jonathan Tetelman (Werther)

Kate Lindsey (Charlotte) und Jonathan Tetelman (Werther)

By Christoph Wurzel, 26 November 2023

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“die Inszenierung zeigt fern aller Opernklischees die Geschichte als packende Tragödie der Gegenwart”

Reviewed at Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden on 24 November 2023

Massenet, Werther

Thomas Hengelbrock, Conductor

Robert Carsen, Director, Lighting Designer

Radu Boruzescu, Set Designer

Luis F Carvalho, Costume Designer

Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble

Peter van Praet, Lighting Designer

Jonathan Tetelman, Werther

Kate Lindsey, Charlotte

Elsa Benoit, Sophie

Nikolay Zemlianskikh, Albert

Scott Wilde, Le Bailli

Krešimir Špicer, Schmidt

Marco Berriel, Choreography

Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Pia Maltri, 7th April

Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

****1

A sensational Kátya Kabanová in Brno shows Janáček at his very best

Dominic Lowe, 3rd March

A revival of Robert Carsen's production at the Janáček Festival Preview benefits from an excellent cast and exemplary playing from the house ensemble.

*****

The game of love: Robert Carsen’s new Così fan tutte at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 8th November

Alexander Soddy leads a great cast in a clever, supremely entertaining new production in Milan.

****1

Canadian Opera's Orfeo returns elegant, restrained and very satisfying

John Gilks, 9th October

The restrained beauty of Robert Carsen’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is matched by musical elegance in its revival current revival at the Four Seasons Centre.

*****

Eugene Onegin revival fails to find the magic spark in Toronto

John Gilks, 2nd May

Robert Carsen’s 1997 production of Eugene Onegin has aged remarkably well but the latest Canadian Opera Company revival of it doesn’t quite recapture its magic.

***11

To the Moon and back: Janáček’s Mr Brouček visits Berlin

Elena Luporini, 16th March

Robert Carsen's new production of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden scores a well-deserved success thanks to a stellar – or rather, lunar – conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

*****

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Christoph Wurzel

Nach dem Studium der Germanistik, Politikwissenschaft, Philosophie und Musikwissenschaft war Christoph Wurzel lange im pädagogischen Bereich tätig. Er interessiert sich besonders für die gesellschaftlich relevanten Aspekte der Musik. Er lebt in Baden – Baden und schreibt für verschiedene Magazine in Deutschland.