Vasco da Gama sets sail in style

By Mark Pullinger, 05 October 2015

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“Vasco is caught in three love triangles, the geometry of which is quite messy”

Reviewed at Deutsche Oper, Berlin on 4 October 2015

Meyerbeer, Vasco da Gama

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Enrique Mazzola, Conductor

Vera Nemirova, Director

Jens Kilian, Set Designer

Marie-Thérèse Jossen, Costume Designer

Roberto Alagna, Vasco de Gama

Sophie Koch, Sélika

Markus Brück, Nélusko

Nino Machaidze, Inès

Irene Roberts, Anna

Clemens Bieber, Don Alvaro

Andrew Harris, Don Diégo

Seth Carico, Don Pédro

Dong-Hwan Lee, Grand Inquisitor of Lisbon

Albert Pesendorfer, High Priest of Brahma

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Paradise regained: Vasco da Gama sets sail in style at Deutsche Oper