A florid perversity: Barrie Kosky fires up Die Gezeichneten in Zurich

By Sarah Batschelet, 25 September 2018

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“few singers could meet such physical demands and still sing as brilliantly as this Alviano did”

Reviewed at Opernhaus, Zurich on 23 September 2018

Schreker, Die Gezeichneten (The Branded)

Zurich Opera

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor

Barrie Kosky, Director

Rufus Didwiszus, Set Designer

Klaus Bruns, Costume Designer

John Daszak, Alviano Salvago

Christopher Purves, Duke Antoniotto Adorno, Capitaneo di Giustizia

Thomas Johannes Mayer, Count Vitelozzo Tamare

Albert Pesendorfer, Lodovico Nardi

Catherine Naglestad, Carlotta Nardi

TBC, Guidobald Usodimare

Iain Milne, Menaldo Negroni

Oliver Widmer, Michelotto Cibo

Cheyne Davidson, Gonsalvo Fieschi

Ildo Song, Julian Pinelli

Ruben Drole, Paolo Calvi

Natalia Tanasii, Ginevra Scotti

Judith Schmid, Martuccia

Zurich Opera Chorus

Orchester der Oper Zürich

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Sarah Batschelet

Sarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.