John Chest
2021Dialogues des Carmelites
Dmitri Tcherniakov, Andy Sommer
Alain Vernhes, Bernard Richter
The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide reputation is underpinned by productions like Eugene Onegin and Macbeth at the Paris Opera and Don Giovanni at Aix-en- Provence. The superb international cast includes a fine Blanche de la Force in Susan Gritton and an excellent Madame de Croissy by Sylvie Brunet, who was favourably compared to Rita Gorr in the press.
Dialogues des Carmelites
Dvořák: Rusalka
Martin Kušej, Thomas Grimm
Kristine Opolais, Klaus Florian Vogt
A legend of mermaids, mere mortals, and sylvan glades. Be transported to a mystical world of water sprites, witches, and wood nymphs. In exchange for love, Rusalka will relinquish not only her mermaid magic, but also her voice.
Dvorak: Rusalka
Rusalka - Bayerische Staatsoper
Thomas Grimm
Kristine Opolais, Klaus Florian Vogt
Rusalka is not a happily tragic fairy tale. Rusalka’s lake is a dark, damp cellar, where she is imprisoned with her sisters by her abusive father. But once she finally escapes, she is thrown mute and alone into an equally brutal world where she is utterly unequipped to survive, and he increasingly looks like a protector.
Rusalka - Bayerische Staatsoper
