Royal Danish Theatre

Copenhagen Theatre Presents 'Le Lozze Di Figaro'

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:42:40 -0500

Kasper Bech Holten’s new staging of Mozart’s masterpiece Le nozze di Figaro features as a veritable erotic pressure cooker where 10 characters are confined to the same room for 24 hours to experience the emotional and hormonal helter-skelter of the changing seasons of the year; from the hot erotic drive of summer to the limp melancholy of autumn, from the chill of winter to the hope of spring.

David McVicar Stages L'incoronazione Di Poppea

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:57:50 -0600

Monteverdi's opera L'incoronazione di Poppea, which is a story of love and deception in ancient Rome, is not only one of the world's earliest operas; it is also one of the most complex – an evocative and bizarre work of great musical beauty. The Royal Danish Opera has taken the unprecedented step of featuring early opera at the Main Stage of the Opera rather than at the Old Stage due to David McVicar's spectacular production that reflects the grand-scale drama of the new opera house.

Christof Loy Stages Mozart's Work Of Youth

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:15:55 -0600

Mozart was only 16 years of age when he wrote Lucio Silla and it remains a mystery how a teenager could compose an opera with such great psychological depth and musical beauty. Lucio Silla brims with refined arias and recitatives which embrace the entire palette of human emotion from sombre gloom to jubilation, festivity, infatuation and rage.

Copenhagen Theatre To Stage Verdi’s Don Carlo

ruzik_tuzik — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:25:59 -0600

The Royal Danish Theatre will stage a new production of Don Carlo for the first time in 25 years. The performance will be directed by Artistic Director Kasper Bech Holten, who focuses on the political dimension of the epic story about a father and son and their struggle to escape the legacy of their forefather, Charles V.

Royal Danish Theatre Presents 'Les d'Hoffmann'

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 06:19:31 -0500

Offenbach's opera Les contes d'Hoffmann is in the hands of Greek director Yannis Houvardas a dark tale of a reclusive artist with a twisted relationship with women.

Royal Danish Theatre Presents Performance By VolksbÃƒÂ¼hne

ruzik_tuzik — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:39:36 -0500

An entirely exceptional experience awaits theatregoers when Berlin-based VolksbÃƒÂ¼hne performs Die Meistersinger von NÃƒÂ¼rnberg at the Old Stage of Royal Danish Theatre. Master director Frank Castorf and shooting-star visual artist Jonathan Meese blaze a new trail between operatic performance and installation art.

David McVicar's Elegant Staging Is Back

ruzik_tuzik — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:52:11 -0600

ruzik_tuzik — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:23:54 -0600

La clemenza di Tito At Royal Danish Theatre

ruzik_tuzik — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:21:14 -0600

Lohengrin At The Royal Danish Theatre

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:39:03 -0600

Don Giovanni At The Royal Danish Theatre

ruzik_tuzik — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:35:44 -0600