Jürgen Flimm's farewell to the Staatsoper Berlin

By Sam Johnstone, 16 July 2018

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“the visual excess of the Baroque is constructed and deconstructed, at times quite literally”

Reviewed at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin on 13 July 2018

Sciarrino, Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo

Staatsoper Berlin

Maxime Pascal, Conductor

Jürgen Flimm, Director

George Tsypin, Set Designer

Ursula Kudrna, Costume Designer

Laura Aikin, La cantatrice

Otto Katzameier, Letterato

Charles Workman, Musico

Sónia Grané, Pasquozza

Lena Haselmann, Chiappina

Thomas Lichtenecker, Solfetto

Christian Oldenburg, Finocchio

Emanuele Cordaro, Minchiello

David Oštrek, Giovane cantore

Staatskapelle Berlin

Love is in the hare: a new Cunning Little Vixen opens in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 28th February

The Staatsoper's new production of Janáček's opera buzzes with life thanks to Sir Simon Rattle's conducting and an excellent cast led by Vera-Lotte Boecker and Magdalena Kožená.

****1

Pintscher’s Das kalte Herz premieres at Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Elena Luporini, 14th January

On a snowy January evening, the premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s new opera Das kalte Herz fails to warm up the Berlin public.

**111

Happy 100th birthday, Wozzeck! Thielemann leads Berlin revival

Elena Luporini, 14th December

The Staatsoper Unter den Linden celebrates the 100th birthday of Alban Berg's masterpiece with a stellar cast in Andrea Breth’s revived production.

***11

Low on laughs: Die schweigsame Frau in Berlin

Elena Luporini, 19th July

Newly General Music Director Christian Thielemann and Jan Philipp Gloger bring Richard Strauss' Die schweigsame Frau to the Staatsoper Berlin for the first time, but la commedia is hardly stupenda.

**111

A Norma cooking on medium at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Elena Luporini, 13th April

Despite excellent performances from Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Elmina Hasan, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's new production of Norma lacks a pinch of salt.

***11

To the Moon and back: Janáček’s Mr Brouček visits Berlin

Elena Luporini, 16th March

Robert Carsen's new production of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden scores a well-deserved success thanks to a stellar – or rather, lunar – conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

*****

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Sam Johnstone

Sam Johnstone is a musician and writer based in Berlin. He has written on classical, contemporary and world music for Sinfini Music, The Cusp and World Music Network, and about the influence of the avant-garde on contemporary music in Germany and Japan whilst studying at Oxford University and SOAS, University of London. Sam blogs at www.spljohnstone.com and tweets at @spljohnstone

Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo: Jürgen Flimm's farewell to the Staatsoper Berlin