Pre-Baroque rarity for a grand season opening at Theater an der Wien

By Laura Servidei, 20 September 2021

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“incredible community of intent between pit and stage”

Reviewed at Theater an der Wien, Vienna on 19 September 2021

Cavalieri, Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo

MusikTheater an der Wien

Giovanni Antonini, Conductor

Robert Carsen, Director, Set Designer, Lighting Designer

Luis F Carvalho, Costume Designer, Set Designer

Peter van Praet, Lighting Designer

Ian Burton, Dramaturgy

Daniel Schmutzhard, Corpo

Carlo Vistoli, Angelo custode

Anett Fritsch, Anima

Giuseppina Bridelli, Vita Mondana

Cyril Auvity, Intelletto

Margherita Sala, Piacere

Florian Boesch, Consiglio

Georg Nigl, Tempo

Lorena Randi, Choreography

Arnold Schoenberg Choir

Erwin Ortner, Choirmaster / chorus director

Il Giardino Armonico

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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Laura Servidei

Mathematician, science nerd, translator of popular science books, obsessed opera fan since the teen years. Day job: business analyst in a software house developing systems for the financial industry. Amateur choral singer. Main musical interests: baroque music and Italian opera. Originally from Italy, currently based in Sweden. I make a mean eggplant parmesan.