Die Ägyptische Helena, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Feb 2009
Posted on 16 February 2009This little-performed opera by Richard Strauss received a wonderful staging by Marco Arturo Marelli and his team.
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Cassandra by Vittorio Gnecchi, and Elektra by Richard Strauss, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Feb 2009
Posted on 15 February 2009Cassandra, by the Italian composer Gnecchi, was written four years before Stauss’s Elektra. It tells of Agamemnon’s return to his wife Klytemnestra, who intends to kill him as revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia …
Ariadne auf Naxos, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Feb 2009
Posted on 13 February 2009This imaginative and coherent production by Robert Carson sets the opera in modern times, complete with a mobile phone at one point, and it’s the only time I’ve seen the richest man in Vienna actually appear on stage.
Salome, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Feb 2009
Posted on 12 February 2009I felt sorry for Manuela Uhl as Salome, because she didn’t come over well until the final scene, and was given no dance.