Past Production Reviews
5Johan Hyunbong Choi sang the title role with a lithe baritone, impressive from start to finish as he breaks away from his family in his grand monologue and finally agrees to spend the night in the haunted room out of love for Kate . Wioletta Hebrowska sings Kate with a dramatic mezzo-soprano and her resolute playing leaves no doubt as to who will be in charge in a possible marriage to her. Her mother, the ambitious officer's widow Mrs. Julian, was in good hands with Andrea Stadel with her bell-like soprano. Yoonki Baek as his rather flippant friend Lechmere, who improves his chancesKate sees, after breaking away from Owen , that she presents his lyrical tenor, confident in the high register, while Sabina Martin , as the traditional, elegantly dressed Miss Wingrave, Owen 's energetic aunt, knew how to resolutely use her dramatic soprano. Gerard Quinn as the trainer Spencer Coyle with the noble character baritone and the beautiful-voiced soprano Evmorfia Metaxaki as Mrs. Coyle were the compensating, balancing poles of this production. Finally, the character tenor Wolfgang Schwanninger offeredas the aged, still war-obsessed head of the family, General Sir Philip Wingrave in his dress uniform, an intense study of stern, merciless authority.
The start of the new season of the theater in Lübeck with Benjamin Britten's "Owen Wingrave" as the opening production of the music theater. The opera will be performed for the first time in the Hanseatic city and will reveal a secret.
Director Ezio Toffolutti, who as a universal artist is also responsible for stage design and costumes, relies primarily on the emancipatory strength of his protagonist in the production of Maestro Puccini's own favorite opera "Madama Butterfly" at the Lübeck Theater. Butterfly, who was sold as a wife to the American naval officer BF Pinkerton, who was only interested in sporadic pleasure, exoticism and sex tourism, is by no means submissive to her new husband. She encounters the man whom she blindly decided to love in a devastating manner without any shyness and without modest gentleness. Rather, something decisive, resolute and in a certain way - think
With her production, director Effi Mendez has succeeded in creating a wonderfully entertaining, happy and amusing spectacle in Stefan Heinrich 's wonderfully looking stage design . She relied on busy leadership, gave the protagonists all the freedom to act without it degenerating into slapstick. The imaginative, gaudy costumes designed by Ilona Holdorf-Schimanke with lots of houndstooth fabric also contributed to the success of this original, entertaining performance. Under the prudent direction of Takahiro Nagasaki , the Lübeck Philharmonic Orchestra makes music wonderfully light and tastes the Italian-spirited, playful compositionDonizetti's gorgeous.
