Theater Bonn Announces 2019-20 Season

Theater Bonn has announced its 2019-20 season. Here is a look. Premiere Hermes Helfricht conducts a new production of Sciarrino’s “Inferno Infinito” by Mark Daniel Hirsch. Dshamilja Kaiser is set to sing the role of Maria Magdalena in the new opera. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-29, 2019 Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” is set for a new production by Josef Ernst Köpplinger. The production will {…}

Theater Bonn Review 2016-17 – Peter Grimes: José Cura Shifts The Blame On Main Character, Concocting An Engrossing Production

The starting point for any production of Peter Grimes lies in the interpretation of the opera’s central character, namely Peter Grimes himself: to what extent should the audience be encouraged to view the anti-hero as an outsider, a victim of the underlying, but all-pervading intolerance and hypocrisy which saturates the Borough, rather than simply as a sadistic sociopath? Clearly, any {…}

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Theater Bonn Announces 2019-20 Season

Theater Bonn Review 2016-17 – Peter Grimes: José Cura Shifts The Blame On Main Character, Concocting An Engrossing Production