Waiting for Kurtág: Fin de partie receives Berlin premiere

Laurent Naouri (Hamm)

Dalia Schaechter (Nell), Stephan Rügamer (Nagg) and Laurent Naouri (Hamm)

Dalia Schaechter (Nell) and Stephan Rügamer (Nagg)

Laurent Naouri (Hamm) and Bo Skovhus (Clov)

By Elena Luporini, 14 January 2025

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“Kurtág’s adaptation... is itself one more endgame, his first opera and swan song at once”

Reviewed at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin on 12 January 2025

Kurtág, Fin de partie

Staatsoper Berlin

Alexander Soddy, Conductor

Johannes Erath, Director

Kaspar Glarner, Set Designer

Birgit Wentsch, Costume Designer

Olaf Freese, Lighting Designer

Staatskapelle Berlin

Bibi Abel, Video

Laurent Naouri, Hamm

Bo Skovhus, Clov

Dalia Schaechter, Nell

Stephan Rügamer, Nagg

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Mark Pullinger, 29th March

At the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Rafael R Villalobos addresses the problems he perceives with Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, although the musical performances – led by Anna Netrebko – compensate.

***11

Young stars shine in the Staatsoper Berlin’s Rosenkavalier

Mark Pullinger, 28th March

Patricia Nolz makes an outstanding role debut as Christian Thielemann conducts a thrusting Rosenkavalier to open the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's Festtage.

*****

Love is in the hare: a new Cunning Little Vixen opens in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 28th February

The Staatsoper's new production of Janáček's opera buzzes with life thanks to Sir Simon Rattle's conducting and an excellent cast led by Vera-Lotte Boecker and Magdalena Kožená.

****1

Pintscher’s Das kalte Herz premieres at Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Elena Luporini, 14th January

On a snowy January evening, the premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s new opera Das kalte Herz fails to warm up the Berlin public.

**111

Happy 100th birthday, Wozzeck! Thielemann leads Berlin revival

Elena Luporini, 14th December

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden celebrates the 100th birthday of Alban Berg's masterpiece with a stellar cast in Andrea Breth’s revived production.

***11

Low on laughs: Die schweigsame Frau in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 19th July

Newly General Music Director Christian Thielemann and Jan Philipp Gloger bring Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau to the Staatsoper Berlin for the first time, but la commedia is hardly stupenda.

**111

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Elena Luporini

After completing their Master's degree in Musicology in Rome, Elena has now moved to Berlin to dedicate themselves to more things musical. With a publication on Béla Bartók and a seminar at the Humboldt-Universität underway, their interests mostly veer toward 20th-century opera, with some forays into queer musicology. Some of their latest undertakings also include oboe lessons, stencil-making and tea-making.

Waiting for Kurtág: Fin de partie receives its Berlin premiere at Unter den Linden