Outstanding Bluebeard in Brno

By David Karlin, 17 October 2016

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“The end is ambivalent: has Judith destroyed herself and her husband by asking too much?”

Reviewed at Janáček Theatre (Janáčkovo divadlo), Brno on 16 October 2016

Bartók, Duke Bluebeard's Castle

Schoenberg, Erwartung

Marko Ivanović, Conductor

David Radok, Director

Martin Chocholoušek, Set Designer

Zuzana Jezková, Costume Designer

Katarina Giotas, Judith

Anders Lorentzson, Bluebeard

Katarina Karnéus, A Woman

Janáček Opera NTB Orchestra

Puccini prequel disappoints at the Prague National Theatre

Frank Kuznik, 9th November

Adding a prequel to Gianni Schicchi mostly proves that a prequel isn't necessary...

***11

Miraculous Makropulos Case debuts in Asia

Carla Escoda, 25th February

National Theatre Brno brings David Radok’s 2014 staging of Janáček’s Makropulos Case to the Hong Kong Arts Festival, the opera's first-ever journey to Asia, with Annalena Persson in the lead.

****1

Harlequin would be laughing at this La Cenerentola

Richard Milne, 14th May

Wonderful costumes, sublime comic timing, beautiful playing and world class singing. A 5* production of La Cenerentola at the Gothneburg Opera.

*****

Arsilda regina di Ponto au château de Versailles : à bas les masques !

Anne-Laure Faubert, 23rd June

Quatrième opera de Vivaldi, Arsilda regina di Ponto revit dans un spectacle international et dans une mise en scène néoclassique qui donne aux personnages une réelle profondeur psychologique. A découvrir de toute urgence pendant l’itinérance de l’œuvre !

****1

Düstere Wiederaufnahme: Macbeth in Göteborg

Katharina Hogrefe, 14th May

Mit starken Solisten und wohl dosiertem Orchesterklang führte Antony Hermus durch die düstere Geschichte nach Shakespeare.

***11

Der Preis der Ewigkeit

Katharina Hogrefe, 3rd December

337 Jahre Jugend - Segen oder doch ein Fluch? Die Oper Göteborg geht dieser Frage in einem kurzweiligen und spannenden Opernerlebnis nach.

****1

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.

Outstanding Bluebeard in Brno, but Erwartung disappoints