Journey to nowhere: Il viaggio a Reims at the Deutsche Oper

By Hugo Shirley, 24 June 2018

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“this opera does need a little more vocal stardust than it got here”

Reviewed at Deutsche Oper, Berlin on 22 June 2018

Rossini, Il viaggio a Reims

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Giacomo Sagripanti, Conductor

Jan Bosse, Director

Stéphane Laimé, Set Designer

Kathrin Plath, Costume Designer

Elena Tsallagova, Corinna

Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Marchesa Melibea

Siobhan Stagg, Contessa di Folleville

Hulkar Sabirova, Madame Cortese

Gideon Poppe, Chevalier Belfiore

David Portillo, Conte di Libenskof

Misha Kiria, Lord Sidney

Davide Luciano, Don Profondo

Tobias Kehrer, Don Alvaro

TBC, Barone di Trombonok

Dong-Hwan Lee, Don Prudenzio

Ya-Chung Huang, Don Luigino

Annika Schlicht, Maddalena

Meechot Marrero, Modestina

Byung Gil Kim, Antonio

Abigail Levis, Delia

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin

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****1

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****1

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****1

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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.