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

By Matthew Rye, 23 May 2021

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“as convincing as a Cockney-accented Eddy as it is possible for an operatic singer to be”

Reviewed at Staatsoper Hannover, Hanover on 22 May 2021

Turnage, Greek

Staatsoper Hannover

Stephan Zilias, Conductor

Joe Hill-Gibbins, Director

Johanna Meyer, Set Designer

Alex Lowde, Costume Designer

Elana Siberski, Lighting Designer

Johannes Schütz, Set Designer

Winnie Janke, Costume Designer

Dick Straker, Video

Julia Huebner, Dramaturgy

Ángeles Blancas, Mum

Iris van Wijnen, Wife

Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Dad

James Newby, Eddy

Jenny Ogilvie, Choreography

Niedersächsisches Staatsorchester Hannover

One good Turn: a triumph of Hanoverian Britten

Matthew Rye, 23rd April

Staatsoper Hannover’s new production of The Turn of the Screw packs a punch, both musically and dramatically.

****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).