Weinberg and Ligeti top Munich’s next season
OperaThe Bavarian State Opera has announced eight new productions for 2023-24:
LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Our first premiere is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro as Evgeny Titov’s first staging at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Stefano Montanari conducts.
DIE FLEDERMAUS
Johann Strauß’s Die Fledermaus follows shortly before Christmas. Barrie Kosky stages once again at the Bayerische Staatsoper. General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski conducts.
PIQUE DAME (PIKOWAJA DAMA)
Following his staging of Così fan tutte, Benedict Andrews now returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper with Pique Dame. Conductor Aziz Shokakimov raises his baton for the Bayerisches Staatsorchester for the first time.
DIE PASSAGIERIN
With Die Passagierin, following the Opera Studio production of Così fan tutte in the 2008-2009 season, Tobias Kratzer, now stages his second opera at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Vladimir Jurowski conducts.
TOSCA
Following Lohengrin, Kornél Mundruczó returns to the Bayerische Staatsoper in May to stage Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. Andrea Battistoni conducts.
LE GRAND MACABRE
The new production for the Munich Opera Festival will be staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski and his long-standing team. With Le Grand Macabre he therefore now directs for the eighth time at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Former General Music Conductor Kent Nagano conducts the Bayerisches Staatsorchester.
PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE
To conclude the season we celebrate the premiere of Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande in a staging by Jetske Mijnssen in the Prinzregententheater. Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts.
LUCREZIA/DER MOND
Together with conductor Azim Karimov and the members of the Opera Studio, Hungarian director Tamara Trunova stages Lucrezia/Der Mond.
Saw Big Mac at ENO decades ago. Wouldn’t mind another viewing, but Munich is too far from California.
I know that Orff wrote the one-act opera, Der Mond. I presume that Lucrezia is also a one-act opera. Is it the comic opera in zarzuela style by William Bolcom? How odd of the company not to identify the composers.
The composer of Lucrezia is Respighi.
https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productions/lucrezia-mond-opst-prod-24
Wikipedia identifies Tamara Trunova as Ukrainian, not Hungarian.
Last new Pelléas was 8 years ago.
Last new Nozze was 6 years ago.
Bavarian State Opera’s stagings are junk, and they know it.
Tonight’s new War and Peace, all 230 minutes of it, takes place in ONE ROOM: hard surfaces nicely built for the camera, heavy to move, impossible to change during the course of an evening, awkward to warehouse. Kutuzov trips on peed on mattresses courtesy of Dmitri Tcherniakov. It is a bore even before it opens.
We need STAGECRAFT for people sitting at a fixed angle and distance. Our theatres are not TV studios!
We need illusion, fantasy, dramaturgical truth. Not photo-realism. Not concept after costly dumb concept to justify new filmings.
http://www.musicalamerica.com/mablogs/?tag=bavarian-state-opera
I wonder, if Mr. Lebrecht wrote a non fake news headline (like “traditional with some surprises in Munich next season”), how many readers would he lose? Are these “sensational” headlines necessary?
Why not start your own site and try it?