The 2020 Critics’ Choice Awards have been announced and they include James’ latest release with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, ‘Rachmaninoff in Lucerne’. You can read all about it in the current issue of Gramophone (December 2020).
The 2020 Critics’ Choice Awards have been announced and they include James’ latest release with the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, ‘Rachmaninoff in Lucerne’. You can read all about it in the current issue of Gramophone (December 2020).
17nov6:00 pmSWEENEY TODDKOMISCHE OPER BERLIN
With this grand musical on the stage of the Schiller Theatre, director Barrie Kosky reveals himself to be a master of the macabre. An equally dark and delightfully chilling
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The story of the ‘demonic barber of Fleet Street’ who became a mass murderer first appeared in 1846 as a penny dreadful entitled The String of Pearls, and has since served as the basis for numerous dramatic and cinematic adaptations. In composing this thriller musical, Sondheim drew inspiration from film soundtracks as well as Richard Wagner’s use of leitmotif. Barrie Kosky stages his vision of this classic musical as a ‘children’s theatre nightmare collage’, revelling in that lust for horror, wavering between disgust and laughter, that has always fascinated audiences.
He mercilessly digs into the question of what humans are capable of when they follow the logic of revenge to the bitter end, and what’s at stake in the process.
BY THE WAY
Cannibalism has featured in myths and fairy tales since antiquity: Chronos eats his children, Titus Andronicus bakes his dead enemies into pies, and the wicked witch intends to eat Hansel for dinner.
(Sunday) 6:00 pm
Schillertheater – Großer Saal
Bismarckstraße 110 10625 Berlin
21nov7:30 pmSWEENEY TODDKOMISCHE OPER BERLIN
With this grand musical on the stage of the Schiller Theatre, director Barrie Kosky reveals himself to be a master of the macabre. An equally dark and delightfully chilling
more
The story of the ‘demonic barber of Fleet Street’ who became a mass murderer first appeared in 1846 as a penny dreadful entitled The String of Pearls, and has since served as the basis for numerous dramatic and cinematic adaptations. In composing this thriller musical, Sondheim drew inspiration from film soundtracks as well as Richard Wagner’s use of leitmotif. Barrie Kosky stages his vision of this classic musical as a ‘children’s theatre nightmare collage’, revelling in that lust for horror, wavering between disgust and laughter, that has always fascinated audiences.
He mercilessly digs into the question of what humans are capable of when they follow the logic of revenge to the bitter end, and what’s at stake in the process.
BY THE WAY
Cannibalism has featured in myths and fairy tales since antiquity: Chronos eats his children, Titus Andronicus bakes his dead enemies into pies, and the wicked witch intends to eat Hansel for dinner.
(Thursday) 7:30 pm
Schillertheater – Großer Saal
Bismarckstraße 110 10625 Berlin
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