Britten makes belated debut in East Berlin
mainIvor Bolton is conducting Turn of the Screw at the Staatsoper on Saturday.
Remarkably, it’s the first time a Britten opera has been staged on Unter den Linden, even though the composer was much admired by the Communist regime and conducted his own War Requiem on the far side of the wall in 1968.
Maybe they thought Screw was too … spooky.
Two things wrong with this:
1) The Staatsoper is currently housed in the Schiller Theater in WEST Berlin while the house Unter den Linden is being extensively renovated. And it’s in the Schiller Theater that Turn of the Screw is being staged.
2) The Komische Oper Berlin (in the former EAST of the city) staged A Midsummer Night’s Dream in September 2013.
Even the most cursory fact-checking would have avoided Slipped Disc with coming up with YET ANOTHER woefully incorrect “news” headline and story.
Harry Kupfer staged “The Turn of the Screw” at the Komische Oper in 2002, in a production that featured Gun-Brit Barkmin as the Governess. The production was revived the following year.
Maybe NL meant that this was the first time a Britten opera has been staged by the Deutsche Staatsoper.
Then why not write the headline to reflect that? As it stands, the headline is simply wrong.
Get over it musiker.
I saw one of the final rehearsals last night.
Truly chilling, highly recommended, and worth the wait.
The Komische Oper is also on Unter den Linden. Indeed more so than the Staatsoper at the moment (as pointed out above).
Not quite…
Komische Oper Berlin
Stiftung Oper in Berlin
Behrenstraße 55-57
10117 Berlin