Fire from the gods: Nono's Prometeo in Duisburg

By Matthew Rye, 12 September 2015

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“an experience in four dimensions, one that comes to take over one’s being”

Reviewed at Landschaftspark-Nord: Gebläsehalle, Duisburg on 11 September 2015

Nono, Prometeo

Ingo Metzmacher, Conductor

Eva Veronica Born, Set Designer

Susanna Andersson, Soprano

Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Soprano

Christina Daletska, Mezzo-soprano

Noa Frenkel, Mezzo-soprano

Markus Francke, Tenor

Caroline Chaniolleau, Vocals

Mathias Jung, Actor

Ensemble Modern

Schola Heidelberg

Experimentalstudio des SWR

Rainer Casper, Lighting Designer

Walter Nussbaum, Choirmaster / chorus director

Matilda Hofman, Conductor

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).