The rise and fall of a Sun God

By Hedy Mühleck, 06 July 2014

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Reviewed at Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg on 4 July 2014

Glass, Akhnaten

Georg Meyer-Wiel, Costume Designer

Marcel Warning, Set Designer

Amélie Saadia, Nefertiti

Artem Krutko, Akhnaten

Irida Herri, Queen Tye

Winfrid Mikus, High Priest of Amon

Zachary Wilson, Horemhab

Michael Zahn, Aye

Dance Company Nanine Linning

Chor des Theaters und Orchesters Heidelberg

Extrachor des Theaters und Orchesters Heidelberg

Philharmonisches Orchester Heidelberg

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Nick Boston, 4th June

John Tavener's “mystical pantomime” proves a disappointment, despite strong performances from singers and orchestra in David Pountney's production.

***11

Jetske Mijnssen's Boccanegra a coup for DNO season finale

Eleanor Knight, 4th June

Everything about this production is fresh and wonderful.

*****

Antonia Bembo’s Ercole amante wins hearts at the Opéra de Paris

David Karlin, 2nd June

Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.

****1

Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Mark Pullinger, 1st June

Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre.

****1

Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Eleanor Knight, 30th May

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.

***11

Viennese splendour in Garsington’s Rosenkavalier revival

Roy Westbrook, 28th May

Bruno Ravella's splendid 2021 production of Strauss' opera of Viennese manners returns with a fine cast.

****1

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Hedy Mühleck

Hedy is a former Bachtrack German Editor and Press Liaison. She's a musicologist, a great fan of British music of the 19th and 20th century, a folk musician, bibliophile and a coffee and tea aficionado. She also likes singing, cats, and to make all kinds of sweet treats.