Past Production Reviews
2A more magnificent, more tasteful, more opulent "Rosenkavalier" has hardly ever been seen. André Heller, multimedia artist and full-time dream inventor, has set out to create an ideal setting for his debut as an opera director, with "sensuousness, beauty and accuracy", as he puts it, in which the full mastery of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss can unfold could. The Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden is rolling out the red carpet for him: with a luxurious cast of singers and a budget that seems to set no limits to the exuberant fin-de-siècle fantasies of the visual artist Xenia Hausner and the fashion designer Arthur Arbesser
Jonathan Michies Papageno steht Tamino mit Komik, Unbekümmertheit und einem herrlich breiten Bariton zur Seite. (Jonathan Michie's Papageno supports Tamino with humor, carefreeness and a wonderfully broad baritone.)
