Darmstadt shows what it can do, courtesy of Mahler's Eighth Symphony

By Ken Ward, 24 June 2013

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Reviewed at Staatstheater Darmstadt: Großes Haus, Darmstadt on 22 June 2013

Mahler, Symphony no. 8 in E flat major "Symphony of a Thousand"

Julie Davies, Soprano

Susanne Serfling, Soprano

Margaret Rose Koenn, Soprano

Erica Brookhyser, Mezzo-soprano

Elisabeth Hornung, Mezzo-soprano

Lasse Penttinen, Tenor

Oleksandr Prytolyuk, Baritone

Thomas Mehnert, Bass

Staatsorchester Darmstadt

Opernchor des Staatstheaters Darmstadt

Martin Lukas Meister, Conductor

A curiously uninvolving Tosca in Darmstadt

Peter Connors, 17th September

This Tosca had many good things in it but was ultimately over-intellectuallised and uninvolving

***11

A Romantic ghost story in Darmstadt

Peter Connors, 2nd September

Darmstadt's Flying Dutchman was a gripping Romantic ghost story with a stong Senta in Astrid Weber.

****1

Mystery, energy and dancing in Darmstadt

Peter Connors, 25th June

The Staatsorchester Darmstadt under Will Humburg performed three mightly works for large orchestra to bring its season to a close: Kurtág's Stele, Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring.

****1

Gripping Staatstheater Wiesbaden Eugene Onegin

Peter Connors, 1st June

Director Vasily Barkhatov’s production of Eugene Onegin travels to Darmstadt.

****1

Szenen zweier Ehen: Twice through the Heart / Trouble in Tahiti

Alexandra Richter, 20th September

Zwei unbekannte Opern von Marc-Anthony Turnage und Leonard Bernstein werden im Staatstheater Darmstadt als Doppelopernabend aufgeführt.

***11

Doppelte Enttäuschung: Molière und Strauss in Darmstadt

Alexandra Richter, 26th April

Das Staatstheater Darmstadt inszeniert die erste Fassung Ariadnes mit Molières barocker Ballettkomödie Der Bürger als Edelmann.

*1111

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Ken Ward

Ken Ward spent most of his working life driving buses for Eastern National and London Buses. With a life-long enthusiasm for the works of Bruckner, he became editor of The Bruckner Journal in 2005 and was awarded The Bruckner Society of America 'Kilenyi' Medal of Honor in 2011.