Transatlantic Crossings in J989

SNEAK PREVIEW'S AND TRANSATLANTIC CROSSINGS IN J989 BY ELLEN LAMPERT he Welsh National Opera rang in the Richard Peduzzi, whose design collaboration New York with its American debut at with Patrice Chereau stretches over the past twenty the Brooklyn Academy of Music in years, is already at work on the decor for Cher • February with Peter Stein's production eau 's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Designer Reinhard Heinrich, Tof Falstaff. With sets designed by Lucio Fanti, who scheduled to open the new French Opera House at who recently made his direc also designed Stein's WNO production of Othello, the Bastille in January 1990. The building, cur torial debut with the Nether and costumes by Moidele Bickel, the production rently under construction, will host a concert on lands Opera production of was filmed in Cardiff by the BBC for an airdate la July 14, as a sentimental offering to this year's bi The Damnation ofFaust, will centennial celebration of the French Revolution, direct and design Lulu ter in 1989. (model, I) for the Heidelburg New productions on the Welsh National Opera's but full-staged productions are not scheduled until Theatre. Opening is set for 1989 home schedule include Mozart's Seraglio, di 1990. May89. rected by Giles Havergal, with sets and costumes by Back in Germany, Reinhold Daberto, from Russell Craig, who also designed the WNO/Mozart Acoustic Biihnentechnik, is overseeing extens ive The Marriage of Figaro. This production debuts renovations of the stage machinery at the Munich • on March 11 , to be followed in May with La Son Opera. The theatre is scheduled to re-open on April Le dt!corateur, Reinhard Heinrich, qul vlent de faire son nambu/a by Berlioz, under the direction of 9, with a repertory production of Aida, whose sets debut comme metteur-en-scene Helmut Polixa. Costumes for this production will and costumes were designed by Beni Montresor. avec La Damnation de Faust au be by Dire von Bodisco; sets by Kathrin Kagler. While waiting to reclaim their own stage, the op Netherlands Opera,/era la mtse At the Schaubiine in Berlin, the 1989 season era company will premiere a new production of Al en-scene alml que Jes decors et begins with a new play by Botho Strauss, The Time exander Borodin's Princ,e Igor, at Munich's costumes pour Lulu (Maquene I) and the Room, directed by Luc Bondy, the French Olympic Hall, with decor by Jorg Zimmermann, au Theatre de Heidelburg. La director who last year staged Shakespeare's A Win and costumes by Silva Strahammer. Lighting for creation aura lieu en mat 89. ter 's Tale at Patrice Chereau 's Theatre of the both productions is supervised by Wolfgang Amandiers in Nanterre. Chereau's resident set de Frauendienst, the company's resident lighting de signer, Richard Peduzzi, whose numerous credits signer. Biihnenblldner Reinhard include this production of A Winter's Tale, as well Reinhard Heinrich, designer of the costumes for Heinrich, der kiirzllch mft der as Chereau's recent staging of Hamlet, will design Harry Kupfer's 1988 staging of the Ring cycle at Produktfon von The Damna the sets; costumes are by Suzanna Rashig. Later in the Bayreuth Festival (see Glenn Loney's article in tion of Faust der Nfederfan the season, Peter Stein will direct Chekhov's The this issue) continues to work with the Ring dlschen oper als Regfsseur Cherry Orchard, to be designed by Christophe team-Kupfer/director, Heinrich/costumes, and debiitferte, wlrd Lulu (Model! Hans Schavernoch/sets-on Richard Strauss' Ele 1 J fiir das Heidelberger The Schubiger (sets) and Moidele Bickel (costumes). ater entwerfen und die Regfe The Schaubiine company started off the new year ktra, a joint production of the Vienna Opera and fiihren. Die Premfere fst fiir Mai with a history-making trip to Moscow, marking the the Salzburg Festival to premiere in June. They are 89 geplant. first time West German artists were invited to per also preparing a production of a little known form in the Soviet Union. Sets for this "glasnot" Tchaikovsky opera, Jeanne D'Arc for Munich. tour of Chekhov's The 711ree Sisters were redesigned Heinrich is designing both seis and costumes for a by Schubiger, and costumes were again by Bickel. Heidelburg production of lulu in March , and for This production was also seen at the 1988 Festival Bernstein's Candide, set to premiere in Wuppertal d'Automne in Paris. in May. He will also design costumes for a new JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1989 31 .

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