Zitat No. 17

1 Kommentar – Veröffentlicht am 14. Januar 2015 in Bits and pieces

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Verena Streitenberg
schrieb am 01.03.2015 um 22:06 Uhr.

generell zu der Seite: warum gibts Deutsch und Englisch, aber kein Italienisch ??
Das macht die Sache doch eigentlich inkonsistent – oder ?
Ich denke: entweder alles Deutsch oder alles in Originalsprache.

Mit besten Grüßen
Verena

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Fotos die auf Instagram mit #staatsoperberlin getagged wurden.

Okt 3

just in these minutes the #berlin state opera house (staatsoperberlin) re-opens their gates after seven years of intense reconstruction at their original venue unter den linden in berlin-mitte. we got the chance to see and photograph the new opera hall last sunday on an empty meet with visit_berlin.
very interesting is the modern ceiling construction by #knippershelbig, which extends the roof height and makes the acoustics even better.
if you check the hashtag #visit_berlin_instameet you'll find more impressions of sunday's short meetup.
#visit_berlin #berlin365 #staatsoperunterdenlinden #hgmerz

Jul 11

Nadine Sierra singing as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto. Better and better 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹😍
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#nadinesierra #verdi #rigoletto #staatsoperberlin
#artsaco #ópera #opera #опера #오페라 #belcanto #operasinger #operalover #operaworld #operapertutti #operalife #operalifeit #soprano #tenor #mezzosoprano #baritone #симфоническийоркестр #drama #music #musicfirst #usa

Okt 23

I am extremely happy and really proud of my amazing student serena_saenz 🌟🌟🌟
Yesterday she won 1st Prize, Audience prize and special prizes of liceu_opera_barcelona and festivalcastellperalada at the famous mciscompetition Montserrat Caballe International singing competition in Barcelona 🙏🏻🥇😍🌟
Serena sung spectacular rendition of one of the most difficult opera arias - Mad Scene from Donizettis “Lucia du Lammermoor” ❤️❤️❤️ ( scroll for the video highlights)
I am so excited of her success - she is the first ever Spanish singer in the history who won this great competition!!! 🥇😍🇪🇸❤️
It’s an amazing victory and I am sure many more will follow- happy that we have two more years to work together at the hannseislerberlin 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Bravissima serena_saenz ❤️❤️❤️
P.S on the second picture you can see me and Serena after the Season opening 20/21 at the staatsoperberlin -here we are - Zerbinetta and Ariadne alias Serena and Anna 🤩😍😍🌟 #annasamuil #staatsoperberlin #hochschulehannseisler #serenasaenzmolinero #serenasaenz #montserratcaballe #singingcompetition #firstprize🏆 #bestlucia #luciadilammermoor #ildolcesuono #madscene #coloraturaqueen #voiceteacher #gesangslehrer #happyteacher #bestvoices #amazingsingers #youngtalents #mygirlsarethebest #brilliantsoprano

Nov 10

Polina Semionova as Nikiya in La Bayadere reconstructed by Alexei Ratmansky after Marius Petipa

Sep 15

Here’s Steffi Scherzer as Odile!!! #SteffiScherzer #SwanLake #SwanLakeballet #Odile #TheBlackSwan #BlackSwan #Ballerina #Ballerinas #Tutu #Tutus #Pointe #Pointeshoes #Pointeshoe #Balletdancer #Balletdancers #Ballet #StaatsOperBerlin #Fouette #Fouettes Fouetté goals!!! I can only do 5 Fouettés!!! 💙❤️😍

Jan 21

La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi
staatsoperberlin

Taking Berlin by storm…

Today’s show started late as the baritone was stuck in traffic due to the ongoing demonstrations against right wing parties.
An important cause and worth the wait in any case.

It is already the third time for me to see this production. I was eager to see Jenufa, so I booked Daphne and Traviata as well for this weekend in Berlin.

The staging is simple, yet timeless and I particularly love the big broken mirror in which Violetta can see her upcoming fate. The skull she sees in the mirror is portrayed by dancers in white outfits. They arrange their bodies to form a skull. There’s also the sands of time that are constantly running.

A great cast consisting of:

Paolo Fanale as Alfredo and amartuvshinenkhbat as Giorgio Germont.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

pretty_yende_official was again (having seen her several times in Vienna’s production) stunning as Traviata. Great acting combined with her uniquely beautiful voice. Breathtaking coloratura and goosebump moments aplenty. Standing ovations obviously.
Bravissima! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

Kudos to the talented ensemble members who made this cast complete.
natalia_skrycka (seeing this amazing singer on all 3 days!)
andresmnogarcia
davidostrek_official
katharinakammerloher
kimtthan

Beautifully conducted by speranzascappucci who I haven’t seen in a while. Hopefully she’ll be back in Vienna soon.

Bravi tutti!

After the show I once again did a guided backstage tour. Highly recommended.

A great way to end this opera filled weekend.

#staatsoperberlin
#staatsoperunterdenlinden
#verdi #latraviata
#oper #opera
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Jul 7

❤️Liebe Freunde! Dear Friends!❤️
I am very happy to invite you to the concert of my voice class at hannseislerberlin
🔥🔥🔥Ich möchte alle ganz herzlich zu unserem Klassenabend einladen!! 🔥🔥🔥
✅When: Sunday, 10 of July at 17:00
✅Where: Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler”, Studiosaal
Charlottenstrasse 55, 10117 Berlin
✅Programm: arias and songs of Bach, Händel, Mozart, Bellini, Rossini,Donizetti,Verdi,Massenet,Nicolai,Dvorak,Bernstein, Lalo,Lehar, Strauss etc
✅ starring: serena_saenz _louise_foor_ haewonlee1102 sopran_shuchen juliamyzuchenko _fidentia_ and of course best pianist of the planet 🌎 matthias_samuil
✅ Free entrance, no Corona restrictions, no mask, please bring your friends, good mood and wonderful atmosphere ❤️❤️❤️
✅And now music challenge:
Do you recognize all the pieces on these videos?
Please answer in comments 🙏🏻❤️ #annasamuil #annasamuilsoprano #staatsoperberlin #hochschulehannseisler #klassenabend #concert #gesangslehrerin #brilliantstudents #youngsopranos #amazingvoices #mystudentsarethebest #serenasaenz #louisefoor #juliamuzychenko #haewonlee #shuchendai

Jan 20

🔟Photos‼️
Zugegeben: ein wenig muss ich auch immer an das 50er Jahre Schleiflack-Schlafzimmer meiner Omma (vornehm😉🤣) denken, wenn ich in der Berliner Staatsoper Unter den Linden bin.

Wie viele meiner geneigten Leser sicherlich wissen, ist all das was auf diesen Fotos zu sehen ist keinesfalls „originales“ friderizianisches Rokoko, aber vielleicht „echtes“, irgendwie? Denn „echt“ und „original“ ist nämlich nicht dasselbe, wie man spätestens seit dem legendären Markenrechtsstreit um die originalen (bzw. echten) Mozartkugeln weiß.

1743 als erster freistehender, repräsentativer Theaterbau Europas(!) eröffnet, war es die wohl mit Abstand visionärste kulturpolitische Großtat König Friedrichs II. von Preußen. Und damals war es natürlich -ganz nach Fritzens Geschmack- ein Rokokotheater.

Nun erlebte dieser Bau aber 200 aufregende Theaterjahre: es wurde angebaut und umgebaut, es wurde zerstört und wiederaufgebaut und wieder zerstört. Das was im zweiten Weltkrieg verloren ging, hatte im Inneren nichts mehr mit dem Opernhaus des 18. Jh. zu tun.

Nun ereignete sich in der bekanntlich wenig royalistisch gesinnten DDR der 1950er Jahre etwas bemerkenswertes: das Haus wurde im Stile des friderizianischen Rokoko wieder aufgebaut. Entstanden ist ein Phantasiebauwerk aus Versatzstücken vieler unverwechselbar echter(!) friderizianischer Dekorationsmotive auf hohem kunsthandwerklichen Niveau. Man muss das nicht mögen, aber es ist ein einzigartiges Zeitzeugnis.

Vor einigen Jahren gab es den Beschluss all das abzureißen und durch einen weitgehenden Neubau im Inneren des Hauses zu ersetzen: „Kann doch weg, ist doch DDR, alles Kitsch“, waren noch die freundlicheren Worte. Nach Protesten kam es anders; in einer groß angelegten Sanierung wurde schließlich so viel 50er Jahre „Oma-Schlafzimmer-Ausstattung“ 😉erhalten wie möglich. Wie gefällt euch das Ergebnis und was sagt ihr zu diesem konservativen Gestaltungs-Ansatz der 1950er Jahre? Schreibt es gern in die Kommentare!

#opera #rokoko #rococo #berlin #staatsoperberlin #architecture #operahouse #theatre #theater

Nov 2

New semester started just several weeks ago, my wonderful students are working very hard and preparing some important projects 😍😍
I got many messages from many of you with the question- where are new videos from my lessons - and here they are ☺️👍🏻😍
My wonderful amazing soprano slavka_zamecnikova_soprano is singing her recital tomorrow, and I think it will be very touching moment for me - 7 years ago she came to my class as a girl 😍❤️and tomorrow she will make her final exam as a soloist of wienerstaatsoper 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌟🌟🌟🌟
juliamyzuchenko is preparing wonderful and tasking role of Oksana in Rimsky-Korsakov opera „Christmas Eve“ in oper_frankfurt 🌟🌟🌟
haewonlee1102 ( who has birthday today - huge congratulations 😍😍😍) and sophienaubert are ready for Opera Gala at the konzerthausberlin on 5th of November 🌟🌟🌟
_louise_foor_ is going to make her debut at lamonnaie.demunt in „Carmen“, and _fidentia_ Margarita Zhigalkina, like all my students is learning new repertoire for the concert of my class on 26 November at hannseislerberlin A stay tuned for livestream 😍
Of course we miss serena_saenz who is going to make her recital tomorrow at Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito in Santo Domingo 🌟🌟🌟🌟toi toi toi liebe Serena ❤️ and of course all my love and thanks to matthias_samuil, best pianist of the world 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
#mystudentsarethebest #annasamuil #staatsoperberlin #hochschulehannseisler #brilliantsoprano #amazingtalents #voiceteacher #sopranos #singinglessons #rehearsal #newprojects #operagala #recital #concert #operasinging #gesangslehrerin

Okt 25

Happy World Opera Day 2023

What opera means to me…
It’s more than the music. It’s about the live experience which results in a life experience. It’s about the human voice, the common journey of the people on, in front of and behind the stage, about the sound that brings out emotions inside us.
No performance is the same.

This year has been jam packed with fantastic operas and I’m very grateful to be able to see one at the snap of a finger.

My beloved wienerstaatsoper almost feels like a second home at times.

Another opera house I like to call home is staatsoperberlin as it’s beautiful and also offers highest quality performances.

Two new houses I visited in early 2023 were:

operzuerich where I got to see La Traviata and a rare baroque opera, Eliogabalo.

staatsoperhamburg was also a nice house with interesting productions (Cosí/Tosca). However their photography policy should be revised. Hamburg also offers a great alternative for concert versions of operas at elbphilharmonie where I had the chance to see jakub.jozef.orlinski in Tolomeo in May.

Despite the great bayerischestaatsoper at the Nationaltheater, where I’ve seen some outstanding operas, I discovered Prinzregententheater this summer for an amazing version of Semele, again with Orlinski and another favourite spikelmyers

In June I finally managed to go back to London for the first time since 2019. A lot has changed since then (Brexit), but the royaloperahouse was amazing as ever.

Summer is for festivals and bregenzerfestspiele and salzburgerfestspiele always serve great and unusual performances. I loved Madame Butterfly (with and without rain) and Nozze/Troyens were outstanding, too.

Last but not least, the best curtain call goes to: Semele 🏆

#worldoperaday #oper #staatsoper #wienerstaatsoper #gay #instagay #likesforlike #instahomo #liketime #gayman #gayvienna #vienna #vienna_city #viennanow #likeforlikes #gaymen #queer #instalike #gayguy #instadaily #queer #staatsoperberlin #staatsoperunterdenlinden #elbphilharmonie #bayerischestaatsoper #royaloperahouse #salzburgerfestspiele #bregenzerfestspiele #wienliebe #viennablogger #queerart

Jun 12

Last Saturday would have been our closing night of 'Don Giovanni' at the staatsoperberlin. I was really looking forward to this production and am sad we were never able to perform it. With such an incredible cast and orchestra, it was certain to be something special. I hope that we will all have the opportunity to perform Mozart’s great work together in the future.
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📸 Jiyang Chen/Staatsoper Berlin

Mrz 21

Turandot
Giacomo Puccini
staatsoperberlin

Nessun dorma…
Also a little bit my motto today as I took the night train to Berlin this time. A bit of a bumpy ride.

I felt a little tired before the opera, but as soon as Calaf started to sing, I was wide awake.

tenormuratkarahan was absolutely phenomenal as Calaf. His timbre is high, sounds fresh and has lots of overtones. Bravo! 🙌🏻

This time annasamuil took over as Turandot. It was her role debut and I really liked her interpretation. Much gentler and soulful than other Turandots I’ve heard before. 👏🏻

Similar to Vienna, Staatsoper Berlin has a really strong ensemble. This particularly shows when the small roles become bigger than usual. In this case Ping, Pang & Pong were favourites with the audience. Sung by siyabonga_j_maqungo andresmorenogarciatenor and Gyula Orendt, this incredible trio stole the show.

Another touching performance by olgaperetyatko as Liu. This role really suits her well and she looked stunning complete with bleach blonde wig.

renepapebass was a beautiful Timur with a warm and gentle sound.

I saw this version of Turandot last year, but I feel it has improved since then.
The staging is focusing on the circus surrounding the Turandoll. It sometimes even feels intimate like a ‘Kammerspiel’ (chamber play). Complete with symbolism ranking from Francis Bacon to Charlie Chaplin to Michael Jackson.

Kudos also to to the enthusiastic conductor maxime.pascal

A fantastic last performance of this run in the 2022/23 season.

Bravi tutti!

#turandot #puccini #philippstölzl #staatsoper #staatsoperberlin #staatsoperunterdenlinden #unterdenlinden #berlin #gay #instagay #mirrorselfie #likesforlike #gayman #liketime #instahomo #pride #queer #queerart #likeforlikes #queerartist #instalike #gayberlin #berlincity #karllagerfeld #hugoboss