An uncluttered Figaro at the Volksoper

By Katherine Syer, 15 November 2016

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Reviewed at Volksoper Wien, Vienna on 12 November 2016

Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Volksoper Wien

Christof Prick, Conductor

Marco Arturo Marelli, Director, Set Designer, Lighting Designer

Dagmar Niefind, Costume Designer

Günter Haumer, Count Almaviva

Melba Ramos, Countess Almaviva

David Steffens, Figaro

Anita Götz, Susanna

Amira Elmadfa, Cherubino

Andreas Mitschke, Doctor Bartolo

Jeffrey Treganza, Don Basilio

Elisabeth Schwarz, Barbarina

Sulie Girardi, Marcellina

Christian Drescher, Don Curzio

Daniel Ohlenschläger, Antonio

Orchestra of the Vienna Volksoper

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A dizzying premise from Martina Eisenreich and Axel Ranisch, loosely drawing on Johann Strauss II’s unfinished ballet Aschenbrödel, which tries to be everything, all at once.

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Death, interrupted: KaiserRequiem moves at the Volksoper

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Paging Dr Freud! Iolanta and the Nutcracker at the Volksoper Wien

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When is The Nutcracker not The Nutcracker? When's it's mashed together with Tchaikovsky's Iolanta to represent the blind princess’ inner world in a dark interpretation.

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Ella Milch-Sheriff’s Alma emerges as a dark triumph at the Volksoper

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A haunting, musically compelling impression of a woman whose life was shaped by creation, loss, and unfulfilled thirst for personal expression.

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Femicide! A controversial Carmen from Lotte de Beer at the Volksoper

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Lotte de Beer’s new retelling at the Volksoper reintroduces the element of shock into Bizet's popular opera.

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Kurt Weill's musical, with its focus on psychoanalysis, makes its Austrian premiere in the city of Sigmund Freud.

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Katherine Syer

Katherine Syer is a Los Angeles-based writer/editor, public scholar, and dramaturg following a teaching career at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and UCLA