Wagner, Die Walküre, at La Scala under Barenboim, in Guy Cassier's Production (Toneelhuis, Antwerp)
Teatro alla Scala, 2 January 2011
by Richard Wagner
Conductor - Daniel Barenboim
Stage Director - Guy Cassiers
Scene Design - Guy Cassiers e Enrico Bagnoli
Costumes - Tim van Steenbergen
Lighting - Enrico Bagnoli
Video design - Arjen Klerkx e Kurt D’Haeseleer
Choreography - Csilla Lakatos
Cast:
Siegmund - Simon O’Neill
Hunding - John Tomlinson
Wotan - Vitalij Kowaljow
Sieglinde - Waltraud Meier
Brünnhilde - Nina Stemme
Fricka - Ekaterina Gubanova
Gerhilde - Danielle Halbwachs
Ortlinde - Carola Höhn
Waltraute - Ivonne Fuchs
Schwertleite - Anaik Morel
Helmwige - Susan Foster
Siegrune - Leann Sandel-Pantaleo
Gringerde - Nicole Piccolomini
Rossweisse - Simone Schröder
Danzatori - Guro Schia, Vebjørn Sundby
In co-production with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin and in collaboration with Toneelhuis (Antwerpen)
It is a curiosity of our times that I write this review of La Scala’s sixth and last performance of their new production of
One has to begin with the extraordinary acoustics of La Scala. No other house, I believe, conveys the human voice in all its individual character as La Scala. The bloom of reverberation supports the tone, but stands discreetly back from the direct sound of the voice, giving the listener a vivid impression of the human voice like no other.
