Carine Legrand

Review of Staatstheater Mannheim

The NTM is both paradise and hell for me. Most of ...

The NTM is both paradise and hell for me. Most of the operas are stunning (Norma, Rigoletto, Don Giovanni, etc. etc.), but some other operas are catastrophically staged (eg La Wally, Fidelio, Lohengrin): noise parallel to the music, story so much twisted that it is about the opposite of the original piece tells, singers pulling the hair of other singers ... in the end you see a new piece that has little to do with music or with the original piece and rather in the direction of gloomy and hopeless. If you want that, then why not. But otherwise, check out the staging first ...