One good Turn: a triumph of Hanoverian Britten

By Matthew Rye, 25 April 2021

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“Sarah Brady's... assumption of the role of the Governess is little short of career-defining”

Reviewed at Staatsoper Hannover, Hanover on 23 April 2021

Britten, The Turn of the Screw

Staatsoper Hannover

Stephan Zilias, Conductor

Immo Karaman, Director

Thilo Ullrich, Set Designer

Fabian Posca, Costume Designer, Choreography

Susanne Reinhardt, Lighting Designer

Philipp Contag-Lada, Video

Regine Palmai, Dramaturgy

Sarah Brady, Governess

Sunnyboy Dladla, Peter Quint

Weronika Rabek, Flora

Monika Walerowicz, Mrs Grose

Barno Ismatullaeva, Miss Jessel

Marco Lee, The Prologue

Jakob Geppert, Miles

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

In Time of Plague: Turnage’s Greek takes on new topicality

Matthew Rye, 22nd May

Reminding us of the timeless relevance of myth, Joe Hill-Gibbons’s Scottish Opera production of Greek moves to Hannover with a few contemporary twists.

****1

Salome stripped bare in Hannover

Jonathan Sutherland, 22nd December

Ingo Kerkhof’s specious contemporary staging was only redeemed by a gruesome scalp and some marvellous playing in the pit.

***11

West Side Story visually vibrant but musically mediocre in Hannover

Jonathan Sutherland, 21st December

Matthias Davids’ impressive production needed the dynamism of Dudamel to do justice to Bernstein’s marvellous music.

***11

Im Nebel verloren: Das Märchen vom Zaren Saltan in Hannover

Svenja Koch, 15th January

Eine packende musikalische Gestaltung steht in der Neuinszenzierung einer Regieidee, die sich nicht auf die Bühne übersetzen lässt, gegenüber.

**111

Schluss mit dolce vita, zurück zur Verantwortung: Alcina in Hannover

Christoph Wurzel, 29th September

Augen zu in totaler Verliebtheit oder sich der Realität stellen? Dem Schwanken und Wanken der Liebe geht Lydia Steier in ihrer nachdenklichen Inszenierung von Händels Alcina in Hannover nach.

****1

Die Anatomie eines Mordes: Der Mordfall Halit Yozgat

Alexandra Richter, 1st May

Die Staatsoper Hannover präsentiert mit dem Auftragswerk über den NSU-Mord an Halit Yozgat eine Oper über ein ebenso brisantes wie verstörendes Sujet.

****1

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).