Horse and Carthage: The Trojans in Nuremberg

By Matthew Rye, 09 October 2017

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“one wouldn’t want to meet this lot on the Trojan battlefield”

Reviewed at Staatstheater Nürnberg, Nuremberg on 8 October 2017

Berlioz, Les Troyens (The Trojans)

Staatstheater Nürnberg

Marcus Bosch, Conductor

Calixto Bieito, Director

Susanne Gschwender, Set Designer

Ingo Krügler, Costume Designer

Roswitha Christina Müller, Cassandre

Mirko Roschkowski, Énée

Katrin Adel, Didon

Jochen Kupfer, Chorèbe

Wonyong Kang, Panthée

Ina Yoshikawa, Ascagne

Irina Maltseva, Hecuba, Anna

Nicolai Karnolsky, Narbal

Alex Kim, Iopas

Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg

History today: War and Peace at Staatstheater Nürnberg

Matthew Rye, 30th September

Nuremberg's opera house launches a new directorial era with an impressive staging of Prokofiev's adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel that incapsulates 200 years of Russian history.

****1

Peter Konwitschny's Boris Godunov in Nuremberg

Katherine Syer, 1st October

Peter Konwistchny scores audience success with his new production of Boris Godunov, a theatrically inventive critical take on manipulation and the disfiguring effects of power.

*****

Siegfried in Nürnberg: an exciting performance in a novel setting

Brian Angus, 25th May

Peter Galliard (Mime), Vincent Wolfsteiner (Siegfried) and Antonio Yang (Wanderer) combine for an exciting, outstanding, dramatic Siegfried in Nürnberg.

*****

Saariahos Innocence in Nürnberg: zwischen Amoklauf und Hochzeit

Michael Vieth, 8th November

Amokläufe gegen Schüler und Lehrer haben weltweit zugenommen. Was treibt die Täter, wie gehen Betroffene damit um? In der Nürnberger Neuinszenierung nähert sich Kaija Saariahos Musiktragödie behutsam beiden Seiten.

*****

Im Shitstorm unausweichlich stigmatisiert: La traviata in Nürnberg

Michael Vieth, 4th October

Nicht die Kameliendame, sondern eine unbekannte junge Frau lässt Regisseurin Ilaria Lanzino in der Neuproduktion von La traviata in Nürnberg an den Folgen eines erniedrigenden Party-Videos im Netz zerbrechen.

***11

Zuckerhut und Meerespeitsche: Der fliegende Holländer in Nürnberg

Michael Vieth, 3rd June

Seefahrender Konquistador des 16. Jahrhunderts trifft auf ausbeuterischen Plantagenbesitzer des 19. Jahrhunderts: die Regisseurin Anika Rutkofsky veleiht dem Fliegenden Holländer in Nürnberg eine eigene Wendung.

***11

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).