Grotesque, gritty Die Soldaten at La Scala

By James Imam, 19 January 2015

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Reviewed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 17 January 2015

Zimmermann, Die Soldaten

Teatro alla Scala

Ingo Metzmacher, Conductor

Alvis Hermanis, Director

Uta Gruber-Ballehr, Set Designer

Laura Aikin, Marie

Okka von der Damerau, Charlotte

Thomas E. Bauer, Stolzius

Alfred Muff, Wesener

Gabriela Beňačková, Gräfin (Countess) de la Roche

Renée Morloc, Stolzius' mother

Cornelia Kallisch, Wesener's Mother

Daniel Brenna, Desportes

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Captain Pirzel

Boaz Daniel, Padre Eisenhardt

Johannes Stermann, Colonel Obrist, Count of Spannheim

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

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James Imam

James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.