Johannes Martin Kränzle

Richard Wagner: Siegfried - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2023)

Siegfried's love story transposed to a high-tech hell... A fascinating re-reading of the third opera in Wagner's tetralogy, served up by Dmitri Tcherniakov's daring staging and Christian Thielemann's virtuoso musical direction. ...

Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold - Aus der Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin (2022)

A myth, a heroic epic, a family saga - perhaps all of these together – make up Richard Wagner's Ring tetralogy. This epic production of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden sees a remarkable collaboration between Christian Thielemann, one of the most distingu ...

Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier (2021)

Così fan tutte - Salzburger Festspiele 2020 (2020)

As Christof Loy put it: Così fan tutte invites us to embrace the complexity of life and face the future with heads held high. In his staging of the version he abridged with Joana Mallwitz for the Salzburg Festival 2020 the focus is wholly on the figures a ...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Bayreuther Festspiele (2018)

The high-point of the 2017 Bayreuth Festival, Barrie Kosky's astonishingly entertaining and convincing new Meistersinger is a triumph: a production of enormous insight and great quality... that plumbs the depths of both the opera and its composer. ...

Berg: Wozzeck (2017)

Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, an ordinary soldier whose only solace is the love of his companion Marie. However, the latter's fidelity is not unfailing and Wozzeck is haunted by torment. ...

Royal Opera House: Così fan tutte (2016)

Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young, up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Winters in a new production of Mozart's opera on the nature of love. ...

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride (2015)

The argument is based on an historical case. In the suburbs of Moscow, reigned around 1571 Tsar Ivan IV, 'the Terrible'. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife for the third time. He chooses the young Marfa; she loves another man but bends to the will of th ...

Wagner: Götterdämmerung (2014)

Götterdämmerung, the final instalment of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, is a story of human passions. Two essentially benevolent creatures, involved with and possibly doomed by their traffic with the gods, find treachery and evil in the world of the huma ...

Wagner: Siegfried (2014)

In Siegfried, the "Second Day" or third evening of the Ring Cycle, we meet the pivotal hero of the epic tale. The energetic drive from Die Walküre is pursued here while Siegfried finally recaptures the mighty ring from Fafner the Dragon and awakens Brünn ...

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2012)

In "a Wagner staging to treasure" (The Sunday Telegraph), the 2011 Glyndebourne Festival brings to life the legendary German composer's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Staged by David McVicar, the production features an all-star cast of leads supported by ...

Haendel: Theodora (2009)

George Frederic Handel's oratorio Theodora, in its first-ever staged version at the Salzburg Festival, was among the highlights of Handel Year 2009. Acclaimed director Christof Loy presented Theodora as the profoundly moving tale of a woman who prefers dea ...