History today: War and Peace at Staatstheater Nürnberg

By Matthew Rye, 01 October 2018

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“Herzog manages to keep the focus on the characters”

Reviewed at Staatstheater Nürnberg, Nuremberg on 30 September 2018

Prokofiev, War and Peace

Staatstheater Nürnberg

Joana Mallwitz, Conductor

Jens-Daniel Herzog, Director

Mathis Neidhardt, Set Designer

Sibylle Gädeke, Costume Designer

Jochen Kupfer, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

Eleonore Marguerre, Natasha Rostova

Zurab Zurabishvili, Count Pierre Bezukhov

Irina Maltseva, Hélène Bezukhova

Martina Dike, Maria Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, Mavra Kusminitchna

Almerija Delic, Princess Marya Bolkonskaya

Kay Heles, Sonya

Tadeusz Szlenkier, Anatole Kuragin

Hans Kittelmann, Lieutenant Bonnet , Monsieur de Beausset

Tadas Girininkas, Dolokhov, Jacquot

Wonyong Kang, Marshal Berthier, Metivier, Marshal Davout

Sangmin Lee, Napoleon Bonaparte

Nicolai Karnolsky, Prince Nikolai Bolkonsky, Field-Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov

Denis Milo, Colonel Vasska Denisov

Alexey Birkus, Count Ilya Rostov

Martin Platz, Platon Karataev

Tarmo Vaask, Choirmaster / chorus director

Chor des Staatstheater Nürnberg

Staatsphilharmonie Nürnberg

Horse and Carthage: The Trojans in Nuremberg

Matthew Rye, 8th October

A typically thought-provoking production of The Trojans from Calixto Bieito combines with a thrilling musical performance to compensate for a heavily fileted version of Berlioz's magnum opus.

****1

Peter Konwitschny's Boris Godunov in Nuremberg

Katherine Syer, 1st October

Peter Konwistchny scores audience success with his new production of Boris Godunov, a theatrically inventive critical take on manipulation and the disfiguring effects of power.

*****

Siegfried in Nürnberg: an exciting performance in a novel setting

Brian Angus, 25th May

Peter Galliard (Mime), Vincent Wolfsteiner (Siegfried) and Antonio Yang (Wanderer) combine for an exciting, outstanding, dramatic Siegfried in Nürnberg.

*****

Liebeswirren in Mozarts La finta giardiniera in Nürnberg

Michael Vieth, 14th April

Die Regisseurin Brigitte Fassbaender beweist einen grünen Daumen für Mozarts frühes Dramma giocosa und lässt neben mitreißend witzigem Szenenspiel einfühlsame Charakterporträts entstehen.

****1

Der Freischütz am Staatstheater Nürnberg: Romantik mit Drohnen

Michael Vieth, 12th April

Gegen neumodisch zeitgenössische Kriegsspiele und KI-generierte Bilderfluten wusste sich das Opernensemble des Staatstheaters Nürnberg mit romantischer Klangsensibilität zu behaupten.

***11

Saariahos Innocence in Nürnberg: zwischen Amoklauf und Hochzeit

Michael Vieth, 8th November

Amokläufe gegen Schüler und Lehrer haben weltweit zugenommen. Was treibt die Täter, wie gehen Betroffene damit um? In der Nürnberger Neuinszenierung nähert sich Kaija Saariahos Musiktragödie behutsam beiden Seiten.

*****

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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).