Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!

Wagner’s Meistersinger, in a witty, sumptuous performance (thanks to Stefan Herheim and Daniele Gatti, respectively) is now being streamed on 3sat.online, available, so far as La Cieca can tell, wherever the internet reaches.

on August 03, 2013 at 3:41 PM
Desk set Desk set

Stefan Herheim‘s production of Die Meistersinger is set on the surface of Hans Sachs’ writing table!

on July 31, 2013 at 11:04 AM
She sang a mouthful She sang a mouthful

Soprano Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs sings the final scene from Salome in the Stefan Herheim production for Den Norske Opera.

on June 27, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Dark side of the moon Dark side of the moon

Finally some video of Stefan Herheim‘s Salome production shows up on YouTube.

on April 19, 2013 at 2:21 AM
Geherheimnishehr hallt mir dein Wort Geherheimnishehr hallt mir dein Wort

It’s not a sure thing, only a “maybe,” but it’s the most exciting Regie news La Cieca has heard all season.

on April 06, 2013 at 10:02 PM
Happy Birthday Stefan Herheim Happy Birthday Stefan Herheim

The Prince of Regie, who’ll direct a new Vêpres siciliennes for the Royal Opera this fall, is 43 years old today.

on March 13, 2013 at 7:09 PM
Bear in mind Bear in mind

Before there was a Stefan Herheim Boheme (which I reviewed a couple of weeks back for this site), there was a Herheim Eugene Onegin, recorded in June 2011 at De Nederlanse Opera.

on December 06, 2012 at 11:31 PM
Somewhere there’s a blu-ray of happiness Somewhere there’s a blu-ray of happiness

The 2012 Bayreuth production of Parsifal directed by Stefan Herheim will be released on Blu-ray and DVD by Opus Arte in April 2013.

on November 30, 2012 at 11:49 PM
The blood of a poet The blood of a poet

Death and its terrible aftermath hang like a pestilent fog over director Stefan Herheim’s fascinating and chilling production of Puccini’s La Bohème for Den Norske Opera.

on October 30, 2012 at 10:38 PM
To give one pause To give one pause

An early start for the Sunday chat, cher public.

on August 11, 2012 at 10:21 PM
All we like sheep All we like sheep

Yet another reason (as if we needed one!) to adore Stefan Herheim: in describing his Konzept for Handel’s Serse, he uses the expression “eine barocke Muppetshow.”

on May 18, 2012 at 4:42 PM
Geherheimnis Geherheimnis

“Since no opera company in the U.S. has quite got up the courage to present a Herheim production, this webcast offers us a chance to sample this director’s unique style of Regie.”

on April 06, 2012 at 3:09 AM
Fishy realness Fishy realness

Rusalka, in the marvelous production by Stefan Herheim, is now streaming live from La Monnaie.

on March 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM
Death becomes her Death becomes her

The remarkable new/old production of La bohème from Norwegian Opera, directed by Stefan Herheim

on March 13, 2012 at 11:01 PM
Take the Monnaie and run Take the Monnaie and run

“Though Mr. Herheim’s work is rigorous, it is also fun, and this Rusalka is serious but the opposite of dour.”

on March 09, 2012 at 6:44 PM

La Cieca has just heard that the acclaimed production of Parsifal by Stefan Herheim will be telecast and filmed for DVD release next summer in Bayreuth.

on August 27, 2011 at 6:44 PM

The Bayreuth repertory continues today with a revival of the final triumph of the Wolfgang era, Parsifal in the production by Stefan Herheim, conducted by Daniele Gatti. The broadcast begins at 10:00 AM EDT on a variety of stations detailed at Operacast. Naturally La Casa della Cieca will be open for comments and especially questions.

on July 28, 2011 at 7:32 AM

You only thought the “Brokeback” Eugene Onegin was the gayest possible take on the Tchaikovsky “lyric scenes.” Now, along comes La Cieca’s fave director Stefan Herheim‘s extravagant, transgressive, high-camp symbolist (and about a dozen other adjectives) approach to the work, “gay” in the very best sense of gay sensibility. Video after the jump!

on June 29, 2011 at 10:33 PM

“It’s fortunate that Lulu at Den Norske Opera was the last stop on the ‘Regietournee,’ because honestly anything after that would have amounted to an anticlimax. If there is a more brilliant director working in opera today than Stefan Herheim, well, maybe I shouldn’t see any of his work, because it might be too much…

on April 28, 2011 at 12:17 PM
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