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Performer: Irina Simmes

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Twilight of the Wagner Clan

An astringent sorbet between the courses of a heavily sauced Wagnerian banquet.
****1
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Spectacular premières in Heidelberg

Before they even started, the twin opening of Johannes Harneit and Gero Troike’s operas Abends am Fluss (“Evening on the river”) and Hochwasser (“Flood”) were hailed as operatic highlights, indeed as important cultural political events - and the performance of the Heidelberg Opera Ensemble was spectacular, with both these operas placed in the tradition of Theatre of the Absurd and performed convincingly with their politically explosive strength of message.
*****
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Spannend, aufwühlend, aktuell

Es war die so ungeahnt aktuelle Perspektive, die die Regisseurin Eva-Maria Höckmayr, durch ihre einzigartige Verbindung moderner dramaturgischer Mittel mit der romantischen Musiksprache und Konzeption Giuseppe Verdis, eröffnete, die die Darbietung seiner Oper La traviata in Heidelberg zu einem erfrischend neuen, spannenden Erlebnis werden ließ.
****1
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