Czernowin's Heart Chamber stirs passions at Deutsche Oper Berlin

By Liam Cagney, 09 December 2019

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“Czernowin has conceived a novel operatic formula which on the whole is strikingly effective”

Reviewed at Deutsche Oper, Berlin on 6 December 2019

Czernowin, Heart Chamber

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Johannes Kalitzke, Conductor

Claus Guth, Director

Christian Schmidt, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Yvonne Gebauer, Dramaturgy

Dorothea Hartmann, Dramaturgy

Patrizia Ciofi, Soprano

Noa Frenkel, Contralto

Frauke Aulbert, Vocals

Dietrich Henschel, Baritone

Terry Wey, Countertenor

Rachel Fenlon, Soprano

Jana Miller, Soprano

Micaëla Oeste, Soprano

Jennifer Hughes, Mezzo-soprano

Anna-Louise Costello, Soprano

Verena Tönjes, Mezzo-soprano

Wagner Moreira, Tenor

Lawrence Halksworth, Baritone

Andrew Munn, Bass

Simon Robinson, Bass

Dario Dugandzic, Baritone

Christoph Brunner, Percussion

Ulrich Fussenegger, Double Bass

Ensemble Nikel

Experimentalstudio des SWR

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Liam Cagney

Liam is a writer and musicologist based between Ireland and Berlin. He writes on contemporary and Twentieth Century music for Gramophone, and has also written for the Telegraph, the Irish Times, the TLS, Van, and other publications. He holds a PhD from City, University of London and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Spectral Music. His Twitter handle is @LiamCagney.