Toy Story: Calixto Bieito stages Die Gezeichneten

By Hugo Shirley, 23 January 2018

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“At the twisted heart of it is Peter Hoare’s... shockingly real central performance”

Reviewed at Komische Oper Berlin, Berlin on 21 January 2018

Schreker, Die Gezeichneten (The Branded)

Komische Oper Berlin

Stefan Soltész, Conductor

Calixto Bieito, Director

Rebecca Ringst, Set Designer

Ingo Krügler, Costume Designer

Aušrinė Stundytė, Carlotta Nardi

Peter Hoare, Alviano Salvago

Katarzyna Włodarczyk, Ginevra Scotti

Christiane Oertel, Martuccia

Adrian Strooper, Guidobald Usodimare

Ivan Turšić, Menaldo Negroni

Michael Nagy, Count Vitelozzo Tamare

Johnathan McCullough, Gonsalvo Fieschi

Tom Erik Lie, Michelotto Cibo

Joachim Goltz, Duke Antoniotto Adorno, Capitaneo di Giustizia

Önay Köse, Julian Pinelli

Jens Larsen, Lodovico Nardi

Samuli Taskinen, Paolo Calvi

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Hugo Shirley

Hugo Shirley is a Berlin-based writer and musicologist. He has written widely as a critic in the UK, including for The Spectator, the Financial Times and Daily Telegraph, and has held editorial posts at both Opera and Gramophone. He was editor of 30-Second Opera (Ivy Press, 2015) and has a PhD in musicology from King's College London, where his thesis focused on Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Toy Story: Calixto Bieito stages Die Gezeichneten at the Komische Oper