Cracked mirror: La traviata at Staatsoper Berlin

By Stephen Crowe, 01 May 2017

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Reviewed at Schillertheater: Großer Saal, Berlin on 27 April 2017

Verdi, La traviata

Staatsoper Berlin

Eun Sun Kim, Conductor

Dieter Dorn, Director

Joanna Piestrzyńska, Set Designer

Moidele Bickel, Costume Designer

Ailyn Pérez, Violetta Valéry

Abdellah Lasri, Alfredo Germont

Alfredo Daza, Giorgio Germont

Natalia Skrycka, Flora Bervoix

Dominic Barberi, Baron Douphol

Annika Schlicht, Annina

Grigory Shkarupa, Marquis d'Obigny

David Oštrek, Dr Grenvil

Christiane Zaunmair, Director

Tobias Löffler, Lighting Designer

Martin Gruber, Choreography

Martin Wright, Choirmaster / chorus director

Staatskapelle Berlin

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Stephen Crowe

Stephen Crowe is an English composer of operas and experimental music. He was born in Bolton, but grew up in Nottingham. Crowe studied Fine Art at John Moores University, Liverpool, and Composition at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a guitarist, and performs free improvisation on a regular basis in Berlin. He sings in 'StreisBAND', a hardcore Barbra Streisand covers band, which received warm praise from Henry Rollins.