Iréne Theorin

After twenty years of absence, Puccini’s Turandot was revived on the stage of the Teatro Real in a new production by American stage director Robert Wilson. One of the most important theatre and visual artist of our times, the director who gave life to Philip Glass’s Einstein of the Beach and who reinvented Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande hadn’t worked on a Puccini opera in twenty-five years, since his ground-breaking Madama Butterfly commissioned by the Paris Opera in 1993. This new encounter between his powerful visual universe and Puccini’s evocative music was bound to be an outstanding event. Carried out by a brilliant cast of singers, dominated by Irene Theorin as Turandot, Gregory Kunde as Calaf and Yolanda Auyanet as Liù, this magnificent production is conducted by the Teatro Real’s associate musical director Nicola Luisotti – and has been met with universal acclaim.

The Pucchini opera "Turandot" will be shown completely new at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. The new production by the Spanish video artist Franc Aleu refers with a wink to the history of the Catalan institution: 20 years ago, this very opera was resumed there after a fire in 1994 severely damaged the theater.

As the end nears for the gods, and human ambition rules the world, Alberich’s son Hagen hatches a plot to take control of the ring, threatening the union of Siegfried and Brünnhilde. Fueled by greed, Hagen’s actions lead to chaos and destruction, until Brünnhilde steps forward to return the world to its natural order.

A fearless young hero battles otherworldly challenges on a journey to discover his destiny.

A father’s blinding ambition and a daughter’s profound defiance drive the story forward in the cycle’s dramatic second installment. This Ring production is partly #MeToo, partly environmental—and almost entirely American.

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 humans, and are ruined by the dark side of humanity. Iréne Theorin, acclaimed worldwide for her portrayal of Wagner’s heroines, stars as Brünnhilde opposite Lance Ryan, who continues his radiant portrayal of the tragic hero Siegfried. The strong cast also includes Mikhail Petrenko as the dark antagonist Hagen and Johannes Martin Kränzle, who once again shines as his father Alberich. Waltraud Meier has a memorable appearance as Brünnhilde’s sister Waltraute. With this 2013 recording of Götterdämmerung, the musically and visually compelling Scala Ring Cycle by Daniel Barenboim and Guy Cassiers was completed and proved to be one of the highlights of the Richard Wagner bicentenary.

ユングが提唱した「エレクトラ・コンプレックス」(女児が父親に対し強い愛情を抱き、母親を敵対視すること)の由来となったギリシャ神話に登場する王女の葛藤の物語にシュトラウスは極めて暴力的で陶酔的な音楽を付けています。エレクトラは100分を越える全曲にほとんど出ずっぱり。息詰まるような歌を歌いながら体中から憎しみを発散させなくてはいけません。ここではテオリンが独特のメイクと眼力、そして蛇のような動きでこの難役を文句なく演じています。彼女に対峙する母親クリテムネストラは、それ以上に海千山千の女。名歌手マイヤーが持てる底力をとくと見せ付けてくれます。純情な妹クリソテミスもなかなかの食わせ者。ウェストブロークが良い味だしています。パーペを始めとした男声陣もなかなかです。レーンホフの演出は、あからさまで、動き一つ一つが台詞に沿っており、また、幕切れの場面は決して結末をぼかすことなく全てを白日の下に晒し出します。

カテリーナ・ワーグナー時代を迎えたバイロイト音楽祭で2009年クリストフ・マルターラー演出、新制作された楽劇《トリスタンとイゾルデ》のライブ収録。端正な騎士然としたロバート・ディーン・スミスと迫力溢れる歌唱のイレーネ・テオリンの二人が表題役を演じ、ペーター・シュナイダー指揮によるバイロイト祝祭管弦楽団と合唱団が楽劇全体をしっかり支えるバイロイトの《トリスタンとイゾルデ》に新たな一章を加える好演です。

Day 3 of the Ring Cycle. DVD release June 2009.

Day 2 of the Ring Cycle. DVD release June 2009.

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie), WWV 86B, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four operas that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The story of the opera is based on the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda.[1][2] In Norse mythology, a valkyrie is one in a group of female figures who decide which soldiers die in battle and which live. Die Walküre's best-known excerpt is the "Ride of the Valkyries". DVD release June 2009.