Tag Archives: Manuela Uhl

Der fliegende Holländer, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wagner Wochen, February 2010

I’m afraid Tatjana Gürbaca was not up to the job. She was probably more concerned with her own strange concept, in which the men were shown as financial traders, and the women as performers and party girls.

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Cassandra by Vittorio Gnecchi, and Elektra by Richard Strauss, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Feb 2009

Cassandra, 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 …

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Salome, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Feb 2009

I felt sorry for Manuela Uhl as Salome, because she didn’t come over well until the final scene, and was given no dance.

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