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Hippolyte et Aricie, Rameau
D: Aletta Collins
C: Simon Rattle
Critica: Hippolyte et Aricie, música contra escena

El resto de personajes tienen menos importancia, pero todos ellos fueron cubiertos de manera notable. Eran Adriane Queiroz como Oenone, el bajo Peter Rose como Pluton, el tenor Michael Smallwood como Mercure y David Oštrek en la parte de Tisiphone. El trío de Parcas fue cubierto por Linard Vrielink, Arttu Kataja y Jan Martiník. Finalmente, el Grumete era Sarah Aristidou, la Cazadora era Slávka Zámečníková y la Pastora fue interpretada por Serena Sáenz Molinero.

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06 December 2018www.beckmesser.comJosé M. Irurzun
Hänsel und Gretel, Humperdinck
D: Achim Freyer
C: Thomas Guggeis
Drunk with dreams and drives

And Sebastian Weigle, once the horn player of the Staatskapelle, now leads the opera as a conductor with a deep understanding of the forest romance and the sensitivity of the fairy tale tone: he places the orchestra's most cautious pianissimo under the enchantingly clear voices of Katrin Wundsam as Hansel and Elsa Dreisig as Gretel. "

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11 December 2017www.faz.netFAZ
With hoop skirts and Spanish ruffles

That is certainly the greatest architectural and acoustic treasure of this house: proximity. In Achim Freyer's production of “Hansel and Gretel” you sit inside a child's heart. It is a dark room of dreams and lust, of fear and wishes, of a fantasy that gives birth to the monstrous: a garden spider as God in heaven, a giant cat with white mice sticking to its tongue, and a witch with sausage lips and a coffee cup hat.

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11 December 2017www.faz.netFAZ
Capriccio, Strauss
D: Jan Schmidt-Garre
C: Ulf Schirmer
Flucht in die Schönheit: Oper Leipzig präsentiert Strauss’ „Capriccio“ als kostenlosen Live-Stream

Bei Jonathan Michie in der Rolle des Dichters Olivier bleiben ebenfalls keine Wünsche unerfüllt. Seine Deklamation ist makellos, sein Arioso betörend. (With Jonathan Michie in the role of the poet Olivier, no wishes remain unfulfilled. His declamation is flawless, his arioso beguiling.)

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21 March 2021www.lvz.dePeter Korfmacher