Hit me with your best Shoshty
Barrie Kosky’s zany production of The Nose time-steps back onto the Komische Oper Berlin stage.
Barrie Kosky
54 pieces since 2011 — at 16 companies, most often at Komische Oper.
54
pieces
16
companies
16
years
By company
Komische Oper 3
Bayreuth Festival 2
Komische Oper Berlin 2
LA Opera 2
Bavarian State Opera 1
Bayerische Staatsorchester 1
Berlin Komische Oper 1
Berliner Ensemble 1
Dutch National Opera 1
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 1
Glyndebourne 1
Lyric Opera of Chicago 1
Opéra National de Paris 1
Opéra national du Rhin 1
Salzburg Festival 1
San Francisco Opera 1
3 pieces as Komische Oper — stats above show all coverage for Barrie Kosky.
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Words and music
As is happening increasingly in opera productions today (e.g., the Rosenkavalier in Stuttgart), the action of Moses und Aron at the Komische Oper begins some minutes before the music does.
Scale model
Opera is about the possibility of transformation. An unassuming woman can walk in through the theater’s stage door and emerge on stage as fiery princess capable of making the walls rattle. Alas, these transformations inevitably fail to stick. Every Turandot must hang up her crown; every Elektra must put down her ax one final time. […]
I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
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